--- title: Transformers Age of Extinction Earning More in China Than in US description: The film made $134.5 million in China in its first five days canonical: https://time.com/2951748/transformers-age-of-extinction-china/ author: Abby Abrams article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-07-02T21:54:36.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-19T07:41:36.767Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Transformers Age of Extinction Earning More in China Than in US og:description: The film made $134.5 million in China in its first five days og:url: https://time.com/2951748/transformers-age-of-extinction-china/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9e128833a26278fd/69869a5fd0b6f21b27305222/transformers.jpg?branch=production&width=624&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 624 og:image:height: 351 og:image:alt: TRANSFORMERS: AGE OF EXTINCTION, humans, from left: Bingbing Li, Stanley Tucci, Jack Reynor, Nicola og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Transformers Age of Extinction Earning More in China Than in US twitter:description: The film made $134.5 million in China in its first five days twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9e128833a26278fd/69869a5fd0b6f21b27305222/transformers.jpg?branch=production&width=624&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # _Transformers_ Is Making More in China Than in the U.S. > Sponsored content. 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Michael Bay dishes on how he took Transformers: Age of Extinction to a whole new level of blockbuster._ by [Abby Abrams](https://time.com/author/abby-abrams/) ## Abby Abrams Jul 2, 2014 9:54 PM UTC  Transformers: Age of Extinction Transformers: Age of ExtinctionParamount/Courtesy Everett Collection by [Abby Abrams](https://time.com/author/abby-abrams/) ## Abby Abrams Jul 2, 2014 9:54 PM UTC Hollywood’s appeal to foreign markets has [officially paid off](http://variety.com/2014/film/news/transformers-grossing-more-in-china-than-u-s-1201257240/). _Transformers: Age of Extinction_ is more popular in China than it is in the United States, [_Variety_ reports](http://variety.com/2014/film/news/transformers-grossing-more-in-china-than-u-s-1201257240/). China Movie Media Group, a partner in the production, said Tuesday the film has made $134.5 million in China during its first five days of release, compared with $121 million in the first five days. The film brought in $10.5 million in the U.S. on Monday and $10.4 million on Tuesday, so it’s unlikely it will match China’s figures after Wednesday’s grosses are tallied. But the film isn’t only popular in China compared to its U.S. sales. It also destroyed the record for a China-Hong Kong production in half the time of the previous movie, _The Monkey King_, which grossed $133 million over 11 days. _Transformers: Age of Extinction_ is even on track to surpass _Avatar_’s record $217.7 million in China, according to China Move Media Group. Hollywood movies rarely perform better in foreign countries than they do domestically. It’s especially rare in a protectionist market like China, the No. 2 [film market](http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-07-02/-transformers-shows-worldwide-appeal-as-china-tops-u-s-.html), which often takes great pains to protect local productions. But in this case the success doesn’t seem so surprising. Paramount Pictures went to great lengths to appeal to a Chinese audience. The company shot parts of the film there, cast Chinese star Li Bingbing in a lead role and partnered with local companies to help promote the film. This was the first time China Movie Media Group, the country’s largest distributor and film promoter, partnered with a U.S. studio. Previous _Transformers_ films brought in about $165 million in China. \[[_Variety_](http://variety.com/2014/film/news/transformers-grossing-more-in-china-than-u-s-1201257240/)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/2951748/transformers-age-of-extinction-china/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/2951748/transformers-age-of-extinction-china/"},"headline":"Transformers Is Making More in China Than in the U.S.","datePublished":"2014-07-02T21:54:36.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-19T07:41:36.767Z","description":"The film made $134.5 million in China in its first five days","url":"https://time.com/2951748/transformers-age-of-extinction-china/","keywords":["movies","Hong Kong","China","Transformers"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9e128833a26278fd/69869a5fd0b6f21b27305222/transformers.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Abby Abrams","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/abby-abrams/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9e128833a26278fd/69869a5fd0b6f21b27305222/transformers.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"TRANSFORMERS: AGE OF EXTINCTION, humans, from left: Bingbing Li, Stanley Tucci, Jack Reynor, Nicola","caption":"TRANSFORMERS: AGE OF EXTINCTION, humans, from left: Bingbing Li, Stanley Tucci, Jack Reynor, Nicola","creditText":"Paramount/Courtesy Everett Collection","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/movies/","name":"movies"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/2951748/transformers-age-of-extinction-china/","name":"Transformers Is Making More in China Than in the U.S."}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Michael Bay Talks Transformers: Age of Extinction","description":"Michael Bay dishes on how he took Transformers: Age of Extinction to a whole new level of blockbuster.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/WprDZvVU/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2014-06-26T20:32:50.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/WprDZvVU.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/2951748/transformers-age-of-extinction-china/","duration":"PT2M16S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/2951748/transformers-age-of-extinction-china/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```