Paramount Pictures’ Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen took in an estimated $16 million from midnight runs, the third best midnight gross of all time after The Dark Knight ($18.5M) and Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith ($17 million) and best ever for a film opening on a Wednesday.
The previous best for a Wednesday midnight gross was Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, which grossed $12 million in July 2007.
The film played in about 3,000 theaters on Wednesday midnight. It expanded today into 4,226 theaters.
