Paramount's first animated Transformers film in almost 40 years, Transformers One, rolls out to $3.3M at the box office.

Refresh for more… Paramount Animation and Hasbro Entertainment ‘s Transformers One, the first animated Transformers movie in close to forty years, looks to liven up the mid-September box office with a domestic start in the low $30Ms with potential for upside.

There’s more than meets the eye at the box office this weekend. Paramount and Hasbro’s “Transformers One,” the franchise’s first fully animated film since 1986, has made $3.36 million in Thursday previews at the box office.

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That figure beats out a slew of family movie previews including that of Paramount’s IF ($1.75M), The Garfield Movie ($2.3M), Trolls Band Together and even the live-action spinoff Transformers movie, Bumblebee which did $2.15M.