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10:16 am - 11/20/2009
TWILIGHT SAGA: NEW MOON, Breaking Records!
MORE BREAKING NEWS!: Summit Entertainment just announced its New Moon debuted with $26.27M in 12:01AM screenings from 3,514 theaters. (Summit's re-release of Twilight Thursday night in 2,057 dates made $1.3M.) Meanwhile, Fandango tells me that New Moon is trending to sell more than 10 tickets per second on the site throughout the course of today.
BREAKING NEWS! FRIDAY AM: Rival studios are telling me this morning that Summit Entertainment's New Moon debuted with $23M-$24M in 12:01AM screenings. That would set a new midnight opening record, smashing The Dark Knight's $18.4M set on July 18, 2008, and Harry Potter And The Half Blood Prince's $22.2M set on July 15, 2009. Summit has yet to release an official number for the Twilight sequel's midnight debut in 3,514 theaters.
THURSDAY PM: I've learned tonight from rival studios that Summit Entertainment's New Moon could break the all-time midnight opening record for a motion picture as it opens across North America in 3,514 theaters at 12:01 AM Friday. But can it really beat Dark Knight & Harry Potter 6?
The vampire and werewolf pic may also smash the all-time biggest single day and biggest Friday opening records, too, if it continues on a roll. Anecdotal reports are streaming in to me (see below) about gargantuan lines all over the United States and Canada featuring female tweens, teens, their mothers, and generally women over the age of 25. Filmgoers are also said to include boys and men, but to a much lesser extent. The Twi-hards are playing Twilight trivia games, wearing Twilight T-shirts, reading Twilight Saga novels, and even doing homework while on line in their Team Edward or Team Jacob sweatshirts and movie costume.
The frenzy means New Moon could topple all those opening day records set by Warner Bros' The Dark Knight in 2008 & Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince this past summer. The Twilight sequel's presales already outdid the rebooted Batman sequel's, and those had been the #2 all-time box office winner. Indie studio Summit isn't reporting any midnight estimates tonight, so the majors have been trying to track the grosses with a mixture of fear and envy to see how New Moon will start its North American debut weekend.
"This pic is doing phenomenal. It's breaking records," one rival studio exec gushed to me at 5 PM PT Thursday night. "It's ahead of Dark Knight. It could break every existing record for Friday. But Saturday will be a different story." That is quite a statement.
Dark Knight scored the 2nd biggest midnight preview gross with $18.4 million in 3,040 theaters when it opened. It went on to debut $67M its first day. But then the Batman pic dropped 29% from Friday to Saturday, when it made $47.6M, and then did $43.6M Sunday, for a total $158.4M from July 18-20, 2008. Twilight, the New Moon prequel, had a big 49% drop from Friday to Saturday, and rival studios are predicting the same drop for New Moon this weekend because of its 2-quadrant appeal.
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BREAKING NEWS! FRIDAY AM: Rival studios are telling me this morning that Summit Entertainment's New Moon debuted with $23M-$24M in 12:01AM screenings. That would set a new midnight opening record, smashing The Dark Knight's $18.4M set on July 18, 2008, and Harry Potter And The Half Blood Prince's $22.2M set on July 15, 2009. Summit has yet to release an official number for the Twilight sequel's midnight debut in 3,514 theaters.
THURSDAY PM: I've learned tonight from rival studios that Summit Entertainment's New Moon could break the all-time midnight opening record for a motion picture as it opens across North America in 3,514 theaters at 12:01 AM Friday. But can it really beat Dark Knight & Harry Potter 6?
The vampire and werewolf pic may also smash the all-time biggest single day and biggest Friday opening records, too, if it continues on a roll. Anecdotal reports are streaming in to me (see below) about gargantuan lines all over the United States and Canada featuring female tweens, teens, their mothers, and generally women over the age of 25. Filmgoers are also said to include boys and men, but to a much lesser extent. The Twi-hards are playing Twilight trivia games, wearing Twilight T-shirts, reading Twilight Saga novels, and even doing homework while on line in their Team Edward or Team Jacob sweatshirts and movie costume.
The frenzy means New Moon could topple all those opening day records set by Warner Bros' The Dark Knight in 2008 & Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince this past summer. The Twilight sequel's presales already outdid the rebooted Batman sequel's, and those had been the #2 all-time box office winner. Indie studio Summit isn't reporting any midnight estimates tonight, so the majors have been trying to track the grosses with a mixture of fear and envy to see how New Moon will start its North American debut weekend.
"This pic is doing phenomenal. It's breaking records," one rival studio exec gushed to me at 5 PM PT Thursday night. "It's ahead of Dark Knight. It could break every existing record for Friday. But Saturday will be a different story." That is quite a statement.
Dark Knight scored the 2nd biggest midnight preview gross with $18.4 million in 3,040 theaters when it opened. It went on to debut $67M its first day. But then the Batman pic dropped 29% from Friday to Saturday, when it made $47.6M, and then did $43.6M Sunday, for a total $158.4M from July 18-20, 2008. Twilight, the New Moon prequel, had a big 49% drop from Friday to Saturday, and rival studios are predicting the same drop for New Moon this weekend because of its 2-quadrant appeal.
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try 6
ppl thought HBP was going to this summer, because it had fantastic midnight screenings that beat TDK and awesome opening weekend numbers, but got knocked from #1 very quickly by other movies if i remember correctly. still went on to make a fuckload of $$ obviously, maybe $300+ million? but not as much as TDK
whats opening in the next few weekends?
That would set a new midnight opening record, smashing The Dark Knight's $18.4M set on July 18, 2008
My reaction:
that post will break the site.
The movie was awesome.
There were some epically lulzy moments, some hotsexyunf moments, tacky as shit moments, but I especially liked "Face Punch". AHAHAH.
Half of ONTD are kidding themselves with the, "oh, a friend is dragging me," "I hate everything about Twilight but I'm going for the lulz," etc. I mean, going on its opening weekend when you supposedly despise it? Um... okay!
If they truly hated it, like myself, they wouldn't be going at all.
So, fear not, bb! Some of the folk responding to you with "are you crazy?" probably raved about it half an hour ago on some New Moon fan board.
I'm extremely bothered that people I am friends with are excited over this. I need new friends. fuckin' hype. americans are such sheep.
*weeps*
*weeps with you*
*shaking and crying*
Has no one ever read The Silver Metal Lover by Tanith Lee? Now there's YA romance at its best!
Hell, I'll even see the next one like three times or something.
On the other hand, obnoxious self hating teenage emo girls will grow up to be obnoxious self hating emo women, so that window is much broader.
so i don't care if twatlight 2.0 beats the failure of HBP in the box office