The third film from the series “Transformers”, “Transformers: Dark of the Moon” has exceeded revenue by $1 billion, becoming the 10th film in history that has managed this performance, informs hollywoodreporter.

“Transformers 3″, directed by Michael Bay, is the third film in 2011 to pass the $1 billion revenue, but the first film from the franchise “Transformers” that managed this performance.

By Tuesday, the proceeds of the film internationally outside of North America were 663 million dollars, and until Monday, proceeds in North American cinemas were 338.8 million dollars.

The movie “Transformers 3″ is the 10th film in cinema history passing the threshold of $1 billion revenue, this performance was probably driven by the fact that the film was the first in franchise “Transformers” which was carried out and broadcast in 3D.

In 2011, two other films, made all in 3D, succeeded this performance, “Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides”, released by Disney, and “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows : Part 2″, released by Warner Bros.

A few days ago the one that enters the club of films that have won over a billion dollars is also the last film of the series “Harry Potter”, “Deathly Hallows Harry Potter and the – Part Two”. Latest Harry Potter film yet ranks in the top eight, with 1.008 billion dollars earned in the world according to announcement made Sunday by distributor Warner Bros. representatives.

The first three positions among the highest grossing films of all time are occupied by the feature films “Avatar” (2.7 billion dollars), “Titanic” ($ 1.8 billion) and “Lord of the Ring: The Return of the King” (1.11 billion dollars).

Find out more about “Transformers: Dark of the Moon” from here.

The actress Megan Fox will not be back for the third shutter of the Transformers franchise. The studio decided not to renew the option of the actress who incarnated the character of Mikaela Banes in two preceding films. The studio refused to work out on its decision.

Sources close to the production affirm however that the studio and Michael Bay wish to bring the story in another direction and that they envisage to engage another actress to incarnate the new lover of Sam Witwicky incarnated by Shia LaBeouf. The decision not to re-enlist the actress would not be related to the declarations of the latter which had compared Michael Bay with Hitler in an interview granted to a British magazine last September.

Bay will produce the third shutter according to a scenario of Ehren Krueger. The details of the story line remain secret for the moment. The title of work for the film is quite simply Transformers 3.

This third shutter which will be produced by Lorenzo di Bonaventura and Ian Bryce will be launched on North-American screens on July 1st, 2011. Steven Spielberg acts as associate producer.

Patrick Dempsey, John Malkovich, Frances McDormand and Ken Jeong recently signed agreements to play in the film. Kevin Dunn and Julie White will be back in the role of the parents of Sam Witwicky.

Transformers is one of the most advantageous franchise for Paramount especially since the studio became the only financier. The first film generated receipts of 709.7 million US$ throughout the world whereas second made still better with receipts of 836.4 million US$ in the world’s box office.

At the beginning, Bay wanted to take a longer pause between the second and the third shutter but he reconsidered his decision in order to respect the bill book of the studio who had envisaged a release at the summer 2011.

As for Megan Fox, she could be seen on June 18th in the film Jonah Hex at the sides of Josh Brolin.

On his official Web site, the producer Michael Bay (the Transformers franchise, The Unborn, The Island) announced that he had recruited John Malkovich (Red, The Mutant Chronicles, Burn After Reading, Beowulf) and Frances McDormand (Burn After Reading) to belong to the distribution of the title in the big Transformers series.

On the Internet, Michael Bay said that his motion picture project had the wind in the veils. He intends to film in big cities and regions all around the world like in Washington, , in Moscow, in Chicago, in Africa, in Florida, in Texas, in China and in Los Angeles. The what he indicated on his Web site.

In addition to John Malkovich and Frances McDormand, he also says to have recruited Ken Jeong (The Hangover, Knocked Up, Furry Vengeance, All About Steve).

Also, a new Autobot will join the Transformers team. At least, this is what added the popular director. This one will take the shape of red Ferrari 458 Italia, nothing less!

Shia LaBeouf (who recently played in Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps, New York, I Love You and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull)  and Megan Fox (who recently played in Jonah Hex and Jennifer’s Body) will take again their roles in this third feature film of the series.

The preliminary release date of the film was fixed at July 1st, 2011. It may change, so you are better following the news.