--- description: Michael Bay scores another hit with the series' fourth film title: 'Transformers: Age of Extinction' Tops Box Office image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt41f78ad1d52d675b/698699daadae4474f6543f12/859169_full.jpg?branch=production&width=1920&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [movies](/tag/movies/) ## movies Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # _Transformers_ Dominates Box Office Again With _Age of Extinction_  by [Nolan Feeney](/author/nolan-feeney/)  ## Nolan Feeney Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jun 29, 2014 5:01 PM CUT  TRANSFORMERS: AGE OF EXTINCTION, Optimus Prime, 2014\. Ph: Industrial Light & Magic/©Paramount Pictures TRANSFORMERS: AGE OF EXTINCTION, Optimus Prime, 2014\. Ph: Industrial Light & Magic/©Paramount PicturesParamount  by [Nolan Feeney](/author/nolan-feeney/)  ## Nolan Feeney Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jun 29, 2014 5:01 PM CUT Optimus Prime & Co. hit the domestic box office this weekend with the force of an extinction level event. _Transformers: Age of Extinction_, the fourth film in the popular but critically panned series, [took in](http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/box-office-transformers-4-hits-715596 "undefined") an estimated $100 million on its domestic debut. Those projections give _Age of Extinction_ the country’s highest-grossing opening weekend of the year so far, according to the _Hollywood Reporter_, and they’re not too shabby considering director [Michael Bay told TIME earlier this year](http://time.com/92084/robots-reloaded/ "undefined") that he didn’t even want to make another _Transformers_ movie at first. There also hasn’t been a $100 million weekend opening in the U.S.[ since](http://time.com/116822/x-men-days-of-future-past-100-million-movie-opening-marvel/ "undefined") _The Hunger Games: Catching Fire_ last November. _Age of Extinction_, which is partially set in Hong Kong, also broke records in China with a $90 million debut, the country’s highest opening of all time. Taking in $201.3 million internationally, _Age of Extinction_’s worldwide gross is already over the $300 million mark. No other major movie openings came close to challenging _Transformers_ at the box office, though the domestic grosses of _Maleficent_ and _The Amazing Spider-Man 2_ both crossed the $200 million mark this weekend as well. \[[_THR_](http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/box-office-transformers-4-hits-715596 "undefined")\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/2938025/transformers-age-of-extinction-box-office/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/2938025/transformers-age-of-extinction-box-office/"},"headline":"Transformers Dominates Box Office Again With Age of Extinction","datePublished":"2014-06-29T17:01:42.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T08:41:17.904Z","description":"Michael Bay scores another hit with the series' fourth film","url":"https://time.com/2938025/transformers-age-of-extinction-box-office/","keywords":["movies"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt41f78ad1d52d675b/698699daadae4474f6543f12/859169_full.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Nolan Feeney","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/nolan-feeney/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt41f78ad1d52d675b/698699daadae4474f6543f12/859169_full.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"TRANSFORMERS: AGE OF EXTINCTION, Optimus Prime, 2014. Ph: Industrial Light & Magic/©Paramount","caption":"TRANSFORMERS: AGE OF EXTINCTION, Optimus Prime, 2014. Ph: Industrial Light & Magic/©Paramount","creditText":"Paramount","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/2938025/transformers-age-of-extinction-box-office/","name":"Transformers Dominates Box Office Again With Age of Extinction"}}]}] ```