The sci-fi adventure “Transformers” took in $8.8 million from Monday night screenings in advance of its official Tuesday release, providing a healthy lead-in for what studios hope will be a strong Fourth of July week at theaters.

“It certainly looks like a great way to start,” said Marvin Levy, spokesman for DreamWorks, which released “Transformers” along with fellow Viacom Inc. unit Paramount. “It’s a case when you have robots like this, they act like magnets to draw audiences into theaters.”

Directed by Michael Bay and based on the Hasbro toys that debuted in the 1980s, “Transformers” chronicles a war between two factions of giant shape-shifting robots that bring their battle to Earth. The human cast costarring alongside the computer-generated robots includes Shia LaBeouf, Tyrese Gibson, Jon Voight, Josh Duhamel and John Turturro.

“Transformers” played in screenings starting at 8 p.m. Monday at 3,050 theaters, about three-fourths the number of cinemas that the movie officially debuted in Tuesday.

Monday’s “Transformers” total was the third-best recorded by a movie in similar preview screenings, behind May’s “Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End” with $13.2 million and 1996’s “Independence Day” with $11.1 million, according to box-office tracker Media By Numbers.

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