A moderate chill fell upon the box office on Saturday due to the July 4 holiday but in the end Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen each came away winners. Early box office estimates show Ice Age 3 and Transformers 2 in a dead heat for Friday through Sunday weekend box office receipts with each blockbuster totaling $42.5 million. Final numbers due Monday should put one flick in front of the other, even if by a hair. Look for those numbers on Monday. For Transformers 2, the domestic box office total now stands at a healthy $293.4 million coming in just a few million shy of the $300 million barrier. Had July 4 not been a holiday it likely would have zoomed right by before Monday. Tack on $298 million in overseas ticket sales and Transformers 2 is sitting pretty at $591.4 million, well on its way to a spot amongst the all-time box office leaders.

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