Refresh for more analysis Paramount/Skydance/Hasbro’s Transformers: Rise of the Beasts grossed $8.8M in previews from 3100+ locations — that’s from a fan event tonight at 7 p.m. on Wednesday and previews that began at 3PM on Thursday.
A recent comp is Fast X’s previews at $7.6M. The previous Transformers movie, Transformers: The Last Knight, opened on a Wednesday back in 2017 and did $5.5M before making a $15.6M first day in a weekend that was $44.6M over 3-days, $68.4M. Rise of the Beasts’ preview number also towers over that of the Transformers spinoff movie, Bumblebee, which had a pre-Christmas weekend release back in 2018; that pic doing $2.85M including both Thursday night and fan sneaks. Bumblebee opened to $21.6M.
