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LOS ANGELES – Alien robots have transformed into box-office superstars with $200 million in domestic ticket sales in just five days.

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen took in $112 million in the sequel's first weekend and $201.2 million since opening Wednesday, according to Sunday estimates from Paramount, which is distributing the DreamWorks movie.

It was well on the way to becoming the year's top-grossing movie.

For the first five days, the Transformers sequel was second only to last summer's The Dark Knight with $203.8 million.

This was the biggest opening weekend of this year, surpassing the $85.1 million debut of X-Men Origins: Wolverine in early May.

Transformers overcame harsh reviews from critics, who called it a visual-effects extravaganza without much story or human heart. Director Michael Bay has a history of bad reviews and big box office with Armageddon and Pearl Harbor.

With a $13 million weekend, Disney and Pixar Animation's Up became the year's top-grossing film domestically at $250.2 million. It surpassed Paramount's Star Trek, which did $3.6 million over the weekend to hit a $246.2 million total.

The Warner Bros. melodrama My Sister's Keeper, with Cameron Diaz and Abigail Breslin, had a so-so debut, coming in at No. 5 with $12 million. Breslin plays a daughter conceived as a donor for her older sister, who has leukemia.

Summit Entertainment's Iraq War drama The Hurt Locker had a strong start in limited release, taking in $144,000 in four theaters for an average of $36,000 a cinema. That compares to an average of $26,453 in 4,234 theaters for Transformers.

Here are the estimated weekend totals for the top 10 films:

The Associated Press

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