'Transformers: Dark of the Moon' Comin' Atcha Two Days Early

After landing the long July 4th weekend early and sticking to it, Paramount has decided to release "Transformers: Dark of the Moon" even earlier, effectively trying to create a six-day weekend from one holiday.

Paramount is unleashing their behemoth blockbuster, "Transformers: Dark of the Moon" (both 2D and 3D) two days earlier than scheduled, on Wednesday, June 29th instead of Friday, July 1st, according to Deadline. That probably means you'll see midnight screenings pop up on Tuesday, June 28th.

In spite of the fact that some major release of some kind is coming out every week from now until the first week of August, "Transformers" actually has a two-week buffer on each side in terms of big bloated action movies. "Green Lantern" comes out on June 17th, now twelve days before "Transformers," and "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2" comes out on July 15th, sixteen days following Michael Bay's opus.

I do think it's kind of amusing that "Cars 2," another sequel about talking cars, will now come out only five days before "Transformers," and these days it's not even like that fills that different a demographic. When I saw "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen," there were kids who couldn't have been older than seven or eight there. And that was at midnight. And the movie was probably the most morally repulsive summer blockbuster I've ever seen.

What does this mean for the July 4th weekend? Well, it's not like any other movie really stood a chance, but "Larry Crowne," the new Tom Hanks movie, will probably see a modest boost now that adults won't have to contend with as many teenagers crowding up the joint.