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This Weekend at the Movies: November 20, 2009
RopeofSilicon.com —
This weekend the talk is going to be all about The Twilight Saga: New Moon and early reports from Nikki Finke say it has a chance to beat the midnight numbers turned in by The Dark Knight in 2008. Unfortunately, the film didn't hit home with critics as the 49% RottenTomatoes rating the first film earned has fallen to 27% for New Moon. Will audiences feel the same drop? ...
Morning Edition Links – 11/20/2009
American Idol 9 - Rickey.org —
Morning Edition Links – 11/20/2009 is a post from: American Idol
Okay, a change of name, the other one seemed vague. I love posting links.
New Moon Midnight Screenings “Breaking Records” – Could break record for Friday as well.
LEGO for MUJI Paper and Block Sets – This is just so amazing. I hope they carry this in the U.S. stores.
Brett Favre Mic’d Up – My favorite NFL player of all time.
Google Toilet Paper – 100% Virgin ...
''New Moon'' already breaking box office records
Reeling —
According to early reports , The Twilight Saga: New Moon may have grossed nearly $24 million at 12:01 a.m. screenings around the country held this morning. If that number holds, New Moon would edge out the previous two midnight-screening record holders, Harry Potter and the Blood Prince , ($22.2 million) and The Dark Knight ($18.4 million). ...
New Moon Shatters Midnight Screening Box Office Record
Cinema Blend News —
New Moon Shatters Midnight Screening Box Office Record Everyone knew going into this weekend that The Twilight Saga: New Moon would be huge. But did anyone expect it to be Dark Knight huge? Nikki Finke is reporting that New Moon may have made as much as $24 million from midnight screenings last night, beating both The Dark Knight 's $18.4 million and Harry Potter 's $22.2 million. As in, holy god, that's a whole lot of money. Summit Entertainment hasn't released their official numbers yet, but it's hard to imagine this number being too, too far off. The thing that ...
THE TWILIGHT SAGA: NEW MOON Breaks All-Time Midnight Record with More Than $20 Million Estimated
Collider» - Collider.com —
... According to Deadline, early estimates for the 3,514 North American New Moon theatres put the film’s midnight total alone at over $23 million and perhaps as high as $24 million. If accurate this means that The Dark Knight opening day record of $67.1 million is in danger of succumbing to Twilight mania. We all knew it would be huge, but huge enough to beat The Dark Knight? That’s a horse of another color. A huge horse. We’ll keep you posted on this story as firmer numbers begin to surface. ...
TWILIGHT SAGA: NEW MOON, Breaking Records!
Oh No They Didn't! —
... 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. Source THURSDAY PM: I've learned tonight from rival studios that Summit ...
The Twilight Saga: New Moon Breaks Midnight Showing Record?
MovieWeb: News —
The official tally hasn't been released yet, but early indicators show that a highly-anticipated vampire sequel might have set a record from its midnight debut last night. Deadline Hollywood Daily is reporting that ...
Box Office: 'New Moon' Breaks $20 Million at Midnight
Get The Big Picture —
... would be headed for a great big weekend, but this big? Even that's a little surprsing. Deadline Hollywood cites sources from other studios saying that the Twilight sequel has debuted in the mid-$20 million range for midnight showings, slightly better than Harry Potter, and substantially more than The Dark Knight last summer. ...
NEW MOON: BIGGER THAN DARK KNIGHT, HARRY POTTER
FilmDrunk.com —
... According to Nikki Finke, Twilight Saga: New Moon’s opening-day numbers are bigger than Dark Knight and Harry Potter. To put it in layman’s terms, that’s pretty big. ...
America’s Teens Break Curfew in Record Numbers for New Moon Debut
Vulture —
... While no one quite knows exactly how much money New Moon took in during its 12:01 a.m. screenings last night, everyone is acknowledging that it almost certainly broke the midnight-screenings record set by Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince this July. Vulture buddy Nikki Finke's sources are telling her that it made $23–$24 million last night, while the Los Angeles Times is saying that it raked in ...
New Moon Breaks Midnight Opening Records!
Celebrity gossip juicy celebrity rumors Hollywood gossip blog from Perez Hilton —
... It may not be living up to the critics' tastes, but New Moon KILLED it when it comes to the midnight release numbers! ...
So, how much did New Moon make?
Filmonic —
Even though the early consensus from critics isn’t good, New Moon was always expected to dominate the box office this weekend. And so far it has, spectacularly: From Nikki Finke: Summit Entertainment just announced its New Moon debuted with $26.27M in 12:01AM screenings from 3,514 theaters. That sets a new midnight opening record, smashing The Dark Knight’s $18.4M on July 18, 2008, and Harry Potter And The Half Blood Prince’s $22.2M on July 15, 2009. (Summit’s re-release of ...
New Moon sets new all-time midnight record
Twilight-Movie —
... Summit Entertainment announced today that New Moon set a new midnight opening record, debuting $26.27M in 12:01 AM screenings from 3.514 theaters. It smashed the old record set by Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince last summer with an opening of $ 22.2M. Summit’s re-release of Twilight also earned $1.3M in 2, 057 theaters. Fandango also reported that New Moon is trending to seel more than 10 tickets per second on the site throughout the course of the ...
New Moon is the biggest opening day earner!
Twilight-Movie —
... According to Nikki Finke of Deadline Hollywood Daily, New Moon debuted to around $80 million from 4,024 North American Theaters. This already includes the $26.3 million the film has earned from midnight screenings. This new record shatters the old record held by the Dark Knight two years ago when it earned $67 million in one day. New Moon has also beaten this year’s best opening day record of $58 million set by Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. ...
New Moon’s Record-Breaking Opening Day
Screen Rant —
... With the expected (and now realized) opening success of New Moon, I am surprised that in my screening of the movie, there were no trailers for other major upcoming films – What we saw instead was all just for upcoming movies from Summit and E1 Entertainment and no other studios took advantage of the masses of eager moviegoers sitting in packed theaters everywhere.
Here are the numbers reported from Nikki Finke at Deadline Hollywood as of this morning:
Debuted at around $72 million in 4024 theaters but results still ...
New Moon Has Best Opening Day Of All Time
Cinema Blend News —
... is reporting that New Moon shattered the opening day box office record yesterday, bringing in $72.7 million, including the $26.3 million from midnight screenings. Compare that to the $36 million that Twilight made on its opening day, and recognize that this whole Twilight thing is definitely not going away. Projections at Deadline Hollywood now have New Moon making $125 million over the weekend, which, fanboys will be relieved to hear, won't be enough to topple The Dark Knight 's record of $158.4 million. But don't be surprised if Breaking Dawn pulls it off next ...
'New Moon' Shatters Records In The Saturday Box Office Report
MTV Movies Blog —
... Box office watchdogs aren't necessarily convinced that "New Moon" will take the record for best opening weekend of all time — that distinction is still held by "The Dark Knight" with $158.4 million — but the "Twilight" sequel is likely to earn the fourth highest weekend, according to Deadline Hollywood Daily. Regardless, "New Moon" will almost certainly have the best opening weekend ever for a non-summer movie. ...
New Moon Shatters The Dark Knight's Box Office Records
Vulture —
... Nikke Finke breathlessly reports that The Twilight Saga: New Moon is expected to have made $72 million on its opening day, breaking the record set by The Dark Knight in 2008 ($67 million). The lesson appears to be: girls rule, boys drool. [Deadline Hollywood] ...
New Moon Sets New Records!
Celebrity gossip juicy celebrity rumors Hollywood gossip blog from Perez Hilton —
... Friday's opening of New Moon earned $72.7 million dollars at the box office, making it the film with the highest grossing single day sales ever!!! ...
New Moon Box-Office Update
Twilight-Movie —
... However, according to the latest update of Deadline Hollywood Daily, New Moon has projected a strong hold during Saturday showings, earning to an estimated $43M, a drop of about-40%. Anticipating a same drop for Sunday will give the movie an estimated $140M first weekend. Summit Entertainment wont report the official North American, international and worldwide sales until Sunday but New Moon is already a phenomenon. It has so far broken two records and is set to become the Biggest Non-Summer 3-day (Friday, Saturday & Sunday) ...
New Moon Continuing to Break Records
Twilight Lexicon —
According to Nikki Finke at Deadline Hollywood (at 10:30 pacific time Saturday night):
“SATURDAY 10:20 PM UPDATE: Hollywood insiders tell me that, based on NEW MOON’s early Saturday numbers, the phenomenally performing pic opened with a gargantuan $140 million first weekend.
The Twilight Saga franchise moviemaker Summit Entertainment won’t report official North American, international and worldwide totals until Sunday. But the sequel’s vampires and werewolves shattered the All-Time 3rd Biggest Opening ...
New Moon Continuing to Break Records
Twilight News —
According to Nikki Finke at Deadline Hollywood (at 10:30 pacific time Saturday night): “SATURDAY 10:20 PM UPDATE: Hollywood insiders tell me that, based on NEW MOON’s early Saturday numbers, the phenomenally performing pic opened with a gargantuan $140 million first weekend. The Twilight Saga franchise moviemaker Summit Entertainment won’t report official North American, international and worldwide totals until Sunday. But the sequel’s vampires and werewolves shattered the All-Time 3rd Biggest Opening Weekend record of $135.6M (see below).” Now what does that mean? Hands down ...
New Moon box-office update
Twilight-Movie —
... $102.7M.
New Moon also smashed the record for the Biggest 2-day Total to reach $100+M with $115.9M, passing The Dark Knight’s 2-Day record of $114.8M.
With the boost of New Moon, Hollywood has its second-biggest non-holiday weekend ever, coming in slightly behind the $260M rung up over the weekend of July 18, 2008 when The Dark Knight opened.
Source: Deadline Hollywood Daily & Associated Press.
jediyoda ...
Fangirls give fanboys a run for their money as “New Moon” hits the record books
Premium Hollywood - Entertainment blog, Hollywood blog, movie blog, TV blog —
Even more than before, studio development executives will be combing through scripts looking for something about female humans in love with handsome young monsters whose unspeakable urges can only be controlled if they immediately remove their shirts. “The Twilight Saga: New Moon” earned an estimated $140.7 million this weekend for mini-major Summit Entertainment, which is now a bit more major and a bit less mini. As both jolly Carl DiOrio and Nikki Finke remind us, that puts it right behind the opening weekends of “The Dark ...
New Moon Breaking Records
Twilight Saga Review —
New Moon Breaking Records According to Nikki Finke at Deadline Hollywood (at 10:30 pacific time Saturday night): “SATURDAY 10:20 PM UPDATE: Hollywood insiders tell me that, based on NEW MOON’s early Saturday numbers, the phenomenally performing pic opened with a gargantuan $140 million first weekend. The Twilight Saga franchise moviemaker Summit Entertainment won’t report official North American, international and worldwide totals until Sunday. But the sequel’s vampires and werewolves shattered the All-Time 3rd Biggest Opening Weekend record of $135.6M Related Posts ...
The Howling Set for Reboot - Werewolves Making a Comeback?
FirstShowing.net —
... New Moon? More like Old Moon! Zing! Sure the second installment of the Twilight Saga raked in piles of money this past weekend, but even the trendy, emo vampire flick has illustrated that (as Will Smith's character from Men in Black might say) vampires are old and busted, but werewolves are the new hotness. With Universal's Wolfman on the horizon, another project that might benefit from this new trend ...
