Well its official, Transformers Revenge of the Fallen is big news within the UK and Japan. In the UK the sequal out grossed the first movie by a whopping 71% at $14.1 million from 517 locations.Here's a quote from Michael Bay's own website
Transformers 2 opened spectacularly in their world debuts in the UK and
Japan, grossing a total of $20 mil from 846 locations. The Michael Bay
directed film was a clear #1 in both territories, with the UK’s opening
total of $14.1 mil from 517 locations outperforming rival comic book
sequel Spider-Man 2 by 18%, the original Transformers movie by 71% and
coming within 3% of the Dark Knight weekend total. In Japan, the film’s
gross of $5.8mn from 329 locations was 64% ahead of The Dark Knight,
and only 13% behind Transformers which had the advantage of opening in
summer school holidays.
The franchise’s eagerly awaited second instalment opens across most of the rest of the world next week on Wednesday June 24th."