Transformers: Age Of Extinction

This week At the UK box office the little yellow Minions held off the highest new film quite comfortably to gain a second week a the top.

With a £4.15 million weekend the Minions has brought its total gross to £27.6 million, which ahead of both of the Despicable Me film from the same series.

Rolling into second place is Ted 2, Ted was a massive surprise hit back in 2012 taking nearly £12 million on it's opening weekend, Ted 2 has taken £3.8 on it's debut and will struggle to get over £10 million in total.

Other new films this week are Love and Mercy at number 9 and Song of The Sea at number 10.

Historical Charts

A Year ago
Transformers: Age of Extinction took over at the top of the UK box office on its debut knocking down Mrs. Brown's Boys D'Movie to number 3.

Five years ago
The Twilight Saga: Eclipse entered the chart at the top knocking Shrek Forever After down to number 2.

Ten years ago
War of The Worlds held its own at the top while the highest new film was The Descent which enters at number 3.

Fifteen years ago
Chicken Run continued to dominate the box office at the top while this highest new entry was at number 3 in the shape of The Patriot.

Twenty years ago
The Batman franchise was still thriving and Batman Forever entered the box office at the top, First Knight fell to number 2.

Twenty Five years ago
Back to The Future Part III was entering at the top while Dick tracy fell to number 2.

As is traditional for Hollywood in the modern era, the night before the film industry celebrates the 'best' of the year, The Razzies 'celebrates' the worst of the year.

This year a new award has been given out, to the individual who usually does really bad in movies but is now making great movies, The Redeemer Award.

Full list of 'winners' below.

Worst Actress
Cameron Diaz
Sex Tape, The Other Woman

Worst Picture
Saving Christmas

Worst Actor
Kirk Cameron
Saving Christmas

Worst Director
Michael Bay
Transformers: Age of Extinction

Worst Supporting Actress
Megan Fox
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Worst Supporting Actor
Kelsey Grammer
The Expendables 3, Transformers: Age of Extinction, Think Like a Man Too

Worst Screenplay
Saving Christmas
Darren Doane, Cheston Hervey

Worst Screen Couple/Ensemble
Saving Christmas
Kirk Cameron

Redeemer Award
Ben Affleck

And heres the full list

35th Annual Golden Raspberry (RAZZIE®) Awards
Nominees

WORST PICTURE

Kirk Camerons Saving Christmas
Left Behind
The Legend of Hercules
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Transformers: Age of Extinction

WORST ACTOR

Nicolas Cage / Left Behind
Kirk Cameron / Kirk Camerons Saving Christmas
Kellan Lutz / The Legend of Hercules
Seth MacFarlane / A Million Ways To Die in the West
Adam Sandler / Blended

WORST ACTRESS

Drew Barrymore / Blended
Cameron Diaz / The Other Woman and Sex Tape
Melissa McCarthy / Tammy
Charlize Theron / A Million Ways to Die in the West
Gaia Weiss / The Legend of Hercules

THE RAZZIE REDEEMER AWARD (New Category!)

Ben Affleck (From RAZZIE “Winner” for Gigli to Oscar Darling for Argo and Gone Girl)
Jennifer Aniston (From 4-Time RAZZIE Nominee to SAG Award Nominee for Cake)
Mike Myers (From RAZZIE “Winner” for Love Guru to Documentary Director of Supermensch)
Keanu Reeves (From 6-Time RAZZIE Nominee to Critically Acclaimed John Wick)
Kristen Stewart (From RAZZIE “Winner” for Twilight to the Art House Hit Camp X-Ray)

WORST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Cameron Diaz / Annie
Megan Fox / Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Nicola Peltz / Transformers: Age of Extinction
Brigitte Ridenour (Kirk's Sister) / Kirk Camerons Saving Christmas
Susan Sarandon / Tammy

WORST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Mel Gibson/ Expendables 3
Kelsey Grammer / Expendables 3, Legends of Oz, Think Like a Man Too and Trannies #4
Shaquille O'Neal / Blended
Ah-Nuld Schwarzenegger / Expendables 3
Kiefer Sutherland/ Pompeii

WORST DIRECTOR

Michael Bay / Transformers: Age of Extinction
Darren Doane / Kirk Cameron's Saving Christmas
Renny Harlin / The Legend of Hercules
Jonathan Liebesman / Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Seth MacFarlane / A Million Ways To Die in the West

WORST SCREEN COMBO

Any Two Robots, Actors (or Robotic Actors) Trannies #4
Kirk Cameron & His Ego / Kirk Cameron's Saving Christmas
Cameron Diaz & Jason Segel / Sex Tape
Kellan Lutz & Either His Abs, His Pecs or His Glutes / The Legend of Hercules
Seth McFarland & Charlize Theron / A Million Ways To Die in the West

WORST SCREENPLAY

Kirk Cameron's Saving Christmas, Written by Darren Doane and Cheston Hervey
Left Behind, Screenplay by Paul LaLonde and John Patus
Based on the Novel by Tim LaHaye andJerry B. Jenkins
Sex Tape, Screenplay by Kate Angelo and Jason Segel & Nicholas Stoller
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Written by Evan Daugherty and Andre Nemec & Josh Applebaum
Based on Characters Created by Peter Laird and Kevin Eastman
Transformers: Age of Extinction, Written by Ehren Kruger, Based on Hasbro's Transformers Action Figures

WORST REMAKE, RIP-OFF OR SEQUEL

Annie
Atlas Shrugged #3: Who Is John Galt?
The Legend of Hercules
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Transformers: Age of Extinction

©2015, The Golden Raspberry (RAZZIE®) Awards LLC

New year is time to look back and reflect on what has happened in the past, so here we present the top film lists from the past 12 months.

As you can see from the list below superhero's are still the order of the day at the box office, although in the UK British talent ruled with the Apes coming in a very close second.

UK top box office films 2014

1. The Inbetweeners 2 - £34,608,796
2. Dawn of The Planet of The Apes - £34,549,646
3. The Lego Movie - £34,133,383
4. Guardians of The Galaxy - £29,348,970
5. X-Men Days of Future Past - £27,005,508

Top UK opening weekends

1. The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 - £12,654,109
2. The Inbetweeners 2 - £12,538,114
3. Transformers: Age of Extinction - £11,751,427
4. The Hobbit: The Battle Of The Five Armies - £9,753,642
5. X-Men Days Of Future Past - £9,1449,71

Top films worldwide

1. Transformers: Age of Extinction - $1,078,428,137
2. Guardians of The Galaxy - $767,555,381
3. X-Men Days of Future Past - $722,914,986
4. Captain America: The Winter Soldier - $713,746,958
5. Maleficent - $710,207,328

Top US films

1. Guardians of the Galaxy - $333M
2. The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 - $311M
3. Captain America: The Winter Soldier - $260M
4. The Lego Movie - $258M
5. Transformers: Age of Extinction - $245M

Transformers: Age of Extinction tops the UK video chart on it's first week of release on Blu-ray and DVD.

The fourth in the Transformers films was released at the UK box office on 11th June of this year taking £11.7 million on it's debut week of release.

The film was on the box office chart for only 5 weeks taking £19 million in the process, and is only the 187th highest grossing film of all time in the UK, it is the lowest of the series.

World wide the film fared slightly better, it grossed $1.07 billion and is the 11th highest grossing film of all time, much of that was from Japan where it is the highest grossing film in that territory.

Falling from the top to fifth is X-Men: Days of Future Past after it debuted at the top last week.

Other new film this week are
How to Train Your Dragon 2 at 2
22 Jump Street at 4
Earth to Echo at 9
The Purge Anarchy at 10
The House of Magic at 18
Pudsey The Dog The Movie at 19