'Transformers' scores $60.6 mil on Day 1

June 25, 2009 Revenge of the Fallen -- which screened for a receptive group of European exhibitors at the Cinema Expo confab here earlier this week -- rang up $60.6 million in its first day in domestic release. Par released the early estimate of first-day boxoffice Thursday morning. The figure included more than $16 million from midnight Wednesday performances, as the 2 1/2-hour, Michael Bay-helmed pic -- in which Shia LaBeouf and Megan Fox reprise topliner roles -- seems well positioned to hit, and most likely to surpass, its projected $150 million-plus in opening-frame boxoffice through Sunday.

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