*'Transformers' global box office hits $372 million | Latest Movie News | Movie News | Film News | Hollywood Film News | Movie Trailer*

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Director Michael Bay's effects-filled movie "Transformers: Dark of the Moon" trounced all rivals in its global debut, ringing up $372 million at box offices around the world since last week's opening, according to studio estimates on Sunday.

Paramount Pictures, which released the third installment in the blockbuster films about a battle for Earth being waged by shape-shifting beings from another world, estimates U.S. and Canadian ticket sales of $97.4 million in the three days ending on Sunday, and it expects that figure to reach $116 million for the four-days ending on Monday's U.S. Independence Day holiday.

By the holiday's end, "Transformers" will have taken in $181 million in domestic theaters since its debut on Wednesday last week, which is ahead of pre-weekend estimates, said Paramount, a unit of Viacom Inc.

Battlestar Galactica' Star Edward James Olmos Joins 'Dexter'

Battlestar Galactica star Edward James Olmos  -- who, by the way, has a name that sounds exactly like someone who should be in Battlestar Galactica -- has officially signed on to join Dexter Season Six. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the Emmy-and-Golden Globe-winning actor "will play a brilliant, charismatic professor of religious studies," presumably getting too close to Dexter in the process -- since that's the plot for pretty much any character who joins the show these days. Then again, this "religious studies" factor has me wondering: are they going to try to have Dexter become religious? Or question God? Or anything along those lines? Because I seriously can't think of a worse story arc. Well, except for Dexter's Season Five.

*‘Housewives of NYC’ star denies Bethenny Frankel’s $120 million*

It was recently rumored that Bethenny Frankel sold her Skinnygirl cocktail line for about $120 million, but her former ‘Real Housewives of New York City’ castmate Ramona Singer isn’t buying it.

Singer believes that the figure is a bit exaggerated, states PopEater. “I was thinking before that figure came out she got about $30 million total,” Singer commented, adding that the money would then be split with others involved in the product.

It has been reported that the line was sold to Beam Global, but the figures have not been confirmed.

How much do you think Bethenny Frankel made?