New Moon Breaks Box Office Records Mystic Meg not exactly baffled Source: Box Office Mojo
There can't be that many of you left who haven't looked at the intertubes since Saturday - and if you haven't, we're guessing you were a part of the world-wide throng who were watching Twilight: New Moon on its opening day/weekend. Every. Single. Session of it. So if you're on of the few who's been too busy swooning to have heard the news, let us confirm it for you: The R-Pattz / K-Stew / T-Laut show has smashed the opening day box office record, ringing up an estimated $72.7 million and change on Day 1 - and that's just in the US.
This is more than double the Day 1 take of Twilight, and of course edges out previous record-holder The Dark Knight. But before anybody protests that Chris Weitz's vampire/werewolf mope-off is a good 45 minutes shorter than Christopher Nolan's Batman sequel (enabling it to fit in more sessions per day), it's important to remember that New Moon reached its total on fewer screens and at fewer sites, which pretty much evens out the balance; fair and square, folks.
Additionally, more than a third of the record-beating sum ($26.3 million is the current estimate) was taken from midnight screenings - another Bat-surpassing record, comfortably past its $18.5 million.
Once these figures were announced, pretty much the only surprise was that the Twilight sequel didn't continue its storming run through the entire weekend. Again, concrete figures are yet to be announced, but box office bean-counters are confident that New Moon will now sit at the number three spot on the all-time opening weekend chart; The Dark Knight will remain at number one, and Spider-Man 2 doesn't look in any great danger of losing second place. The fact that Friday was the biggest day suggests that the results were somewhat "front-loaded", and that the film won't continue to the sort of mammoth numbers that Dark Knight did, but it's still a storming result for the vamp franchise.
Elsewhere in the charts, the Sandra Bullock-starring sports drama The Blind Side saw its stars overcome a cliched trailer huge odds to take $34.5m, the best-ever opening for a sports drama and about twice what it was expected to take. Animated sci-fi comedy Planet 51 opened to $12.6m, a disappointing opening but one that probably reflects the value of a named animation brand like Pixar or Dreamworks; Planet 51 came from newcomer Ilion Animation Studios.
UK box office results to follow (and probably follow suit in relation to New Moon). For the rest of the US results, head on over to Box Office Mojo.
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ulations empire!o you constant comparing of the dark knight to EVERY film out there, I can no longer bring myself to watch it! "dark knight this, dark knight that" its gettin boring! Do me a favour n change the record!
agree.
Just saw Woody Allen's September by the way, the whole time I just couldn't stop thinking about how much it reminded me of THE DARK KNIGHT. Especially that bit where Mia Farrow goes to Hong Kong, flies into a building then... Read More
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ulations empire!o you constant comparing of the dark knight to EVERY film out there, I can no longer bring myself to watch it! "dark knight this, dark knight that" its gettin boring! Do me a favour n change the record!
agree.
Just saw Woody Allen's September by the way, the whole time I just couldn't stop thinking about how much it reminded me of THE DARK KNIGHT. Especially that bit where Mia Farrow goes to Hong Kong, flies into a building then escapes by grabbing on t... Read More
ulations empire!o you constant comparing of the dark knight to EVERY film out there, I can no longer bring myself to watch it! "dark knight this, dark knight that" its gettin boring! Do me a favour n change the record! ... Read More
Don't you just love when people go through all the effort to join a site just to whine about how badly written a column was? I'm not talking about being strongly opposed to an argument raised - signing up for that is somewhat justifiable. It's the saddos who go out of their way to correct nitpicky facts or grammar, or just comment on how pointless the article it is and how pathetic the site is for posting it. It's a real bug-bear of mine, and sadly it seems to be spreading to Empire too. ... Read More
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Then again box office analysis is hardly the world ending affair getting it wrong.
ou're right. If it's not to do with the world ending, it doesn't need to be accurate.
ehe false dichotomy. The World hardly ends because some online news writer from Empire doesn't just copy'n'paste box office analysis instead writing it from out of date and faulty memory. ... Read More
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Then again box office analysis is hardly the world ending affair getting it wrong.
ou're right. If it's not to do with the world ending, it doesn't need to be accurate.
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At least we know it wasn't cut'n'paste journalism rather a knee jerk fast piece written from the hip and showing the journos in question faulty or out of date memory t's easy to just cut'n'paste from another website and adding a few comments of ypur own in online news reporting.
Then again box office analysis is hardly the world ending affair getting it wrong. ... Read More
There you go Somerset 4 posts in one day. That would put you at about 1500 posts a year too. If we keep at it we could get you to 10 by the end of the day. 'm just kidding with you BTW. All my comments were firmly tongue in cheek. ... Read More
