U.K. box office: ‘Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen’ keeps blowing stuff up

With a drop of almost 50 percent in its second weekend in the U.K., and a cumulative take so far of about £16.5 million -- far less, comparatively speaking, than its North American take over half as many days -- Transformers: ROTF looks to be cooling pretty quickly across the pond.

The Hangover, though, barely dropped at all, and could well end up as much as T: ROTF, in the long run in the U.K., which would be astonishing.

Overall business was down 11 percent over the same weekend last year: the U.K. box office is finally starting to slow down from its overdrive of the spring, though with Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs set to open this week and sure to be a big hit, things could ramp right back up again.

[numbers via UK Film Council]