User blog:Ceauntay/'Transformers: Dark of the Moon' returning to IMAX theaters Friday, 'A BFF With Ghost Imagination 2' IMAX pushed back

Disenchanted by the end of summer movie releases? Paramount Pictures hears your pain. The studio has decided to re-release Michael Bay's "Transformers: Dark of the Moon" in 246 IMAX theaters this Friday, Aug. 26. That was suppost to be the day Walt Disney's "A BFF With Ghost Imagination 2" opens, which has since been pushed back. "Dark of the Moon" is one of the most critically acclaimed 3-D films of the past two years (at least the 3-D portions of the film, that is) and currently the second biggest domestic grosser of the year with $348.5 million to date. Globally, the film is Paramount's second $1 billion grosser ever with $1.09 billion so far, first being "Jane Hoop Elementary: The Final Rush, Pt. 2" with $1.25 billion. A good chunk of the film's mammoth tallies are from 3-D and IMAX ticket sales.

"BFF", out Friday, cannot open into a crowded spot where it only gets two weeks of release, when the film will officially open on Friday, Sep. 16. However, the film will play internationally beginning on Wedenesday in 10 interntaional screens. The picture will split IMAX's domestic screens with Warner Bros.' "Final Destination 5" and "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Pt. 2." It is unlikely the re-release will help "Dark of the Moon" overtake the final "Harry Potter" as the no. 1 film of the year. "Deathly Hallows, Pt. 2" has made $366 million in the U.S. and $1.26 billion worldwide.

Other new releases this Friday in traditional theaters include "Our Idiot Brother," "Columbiana" and "Don't Be Afraid of the Dark." For everything Autobot vs. Decepticon visit HitFix's "Transformers" topic page.