New Moon Takes Top Dollar
The second film in the popular Twilight franchise has taken home the bacon this opening weekend. With the biggest single day box office taking this past Friday clocking in at $72.7 million, The Twilight Saga: New Moon has gone on to make in excess of $140.7 million in the US, making it the third biggest opening weekend ever.
Given the level of publicity the film and it’s stars (Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner and Kristen Stewart) have had to endure this year it’s little surprise to me that New Moon has been making waves. This from THR:
“New Moon” rung up $72.7 million Friday — the biggest single-day tally ever, including a record $26.3 million from opening midnight performances — then sunk its teeth into $43.2 million, with Summit penciling in $24.8 million for its Sunday tally. The pic’s Saturday-over-Friday decline amounted to a manageable 41%, including the outsized witching-hour coin.
Any remaining skeptics will focus on prospects for the soph session for the female-fueled sequel. But many students and adults will have the day off on Friday following the Thanksgiving holiday, making next weekend a more lucrative boxoffice session than most and surely boosting second-frame grosses for “New Moon.”
With the third film in the series, The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, already shooting, fans have little under 12 months to go before it’s release. And while Summit Entertainment are most certainly wringing their hands together this Sunday evening, they’ll be hoping to beat this record come 2010.
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