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Preorder sales surge for Transformers 2 June 14th, 2009

Fan­dango have released some press about Revenge of the Fallen ticket sales, which makes up approx­i­mately 21% of all movie tick­ets cur­rently being sold by Fandango.

With less than two weeks to go before its June 24 release date, Trans­form­ers: Revenge of the Fallen is already see­ing brisk ticket sales on Fan­dango, the nation’s lead­ing movie­goer des­ti­na­tion. Cur­rently, the film rep­re­sents 21% of ticket sales on Fan­dango (as of June 11 at 9 am PT).

Accord­ing to an ongo­ing Fan­dango sur­vey of movie­go­ers plan­ning to see Trans­form­ers 2:

* 81% of respon­dents say Megan Fox is the one star they’re most excited to see in the new movie.
* 76% say they are fans of direc­tor Michael Bay.
* 72% say the IMAX pre­sen­ta­tion of Trans­form­ers 2 will be an impor­tant part of their moviego­ing expe­ri­ence.
* 71% of respon­dents are 18–34 years old; 68% are male.

“Fans are already scoop­ing up tick­ets for Trans­form­ers 2’s open­ing week show­times, espe­cially for the IMAX screens,” says Ted Hong, Chief Mar­ket­ing Offi­cer for Fan­dango. “The movie is gar­ner­ing some great Inter­net buzz, and film­go­ers are clearly ready for another action-packed sum­mer pop­corn movie. With Trans­form­ers 2, Harry Pot­ter and the Half-Blood Prince, Ice Age 3, Pub­lic Ene­mies, Bruno, G.I. Joe and other highly-anticipated movies open­ing within a few weeks of each other, it looks like a ban­ner year for the movies.”