The Fourth of July weekend sizzled at theaters with a rare tie for No. 1 when the box office projections came out Sunday afternoon, according to BoxOfficeGuru.com
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen and Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs each reported $42.5 in ticket sales for the traditional Friday-to-Sunday frame.
Dawn of the Dinosaurs opened on Wednesday and earned $67.5 million since then. The Transformers sequel dropped 61 percent from last weekend's haul but that could be expected. Michael Bay's movie has grossed $293.5 million in 12 days, placing it No. 30 among all-time ticket draws.
You can bet on one movie squeezing out a slim victory when studio accountants finish crunching numbers Monday morning. Look for the runner-up to cry foul, claiming bogus addition that nobody can prove anyway. Like everything in the movie biz, it'll come down to which studi has the best media connections to get out their side of the story.
Steve Persall is the movie critic for the St. Petersburg Times. He was conceived behind a drive-in movie theater his father operated and raised in projection booths and concession stands. He doesn't care how you did it up north.
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