Photos: 'Transformers' shapes up as blockbuster

Transformers, a sci-fi epic, has broken the record for the best weeklong opening run for a nonsequel, eclipsing the original Spider-Man. The new movie brought in $152.6 million in its first six and a half days in the U.S. and Canada, according to the Los Angeles Times.

Optimus Prime, the leader of the Autobots, looks like an 18-wheeler when he isn't trying to save Earth--and the universe--from the Decepticons.