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So, how much did New Moon make?

Liam — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:16:06 +0000

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 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.

Wowza. Those are some dedicated fans.

New Moon is also breaking records overseas:

Summit reported Thursday afternoon that at midnight showings on 466 screens in Australia, the movie took in AUS$1.7 million ($1.6 million). It sailed past the previous Australian midnight record set by “Star Wars: Episode III — Revenge of the Sith,” which took in AUS$1.26 million ($1.2 million) in 2005.
In France, where “Moon” completed its first day, it was No. 1 with 488,000 admissions, translating to $4.26 million, from 751 theaters. By comparison, “Twilight” scored 140,960 admissions, $1.158 million, on its first day in that country.
In Italy, partial returns put the movie’s gross at €$1.83 million ($2.7 million) from 625 screens. The movie is shaping up as the third-highest Wednesday opener in Italy, behind only “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” and “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.”
Meanwhile in Spain, “Moon” drew €1.475 million ($2.2 million) on 652 screens. In Spain, it also ranked as the third-best Wednesday opening ever — behind “Order of the Phoenix” and “Half-Blood Prince.”

I think it’s safe to assume New Moon will out-gross Twilight.

Have you seen New Moon? If so, what are your thoughts?

Final New Moon trailer

Liam — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 16:17:50 +0000

As far as New Moon and Twilight trailers go, this new trailer is probably the best. After watching it I got the strange feeling of actually wanting to see the film. I didn’t feel that once for Twilight.

Here’s the trailer:

New Moon stars Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner and Daktota Fanning. There’s also the guy who played Colossus in the X-Men films. From the looks of things Chris Weitz has done a better job than Twilight director Catherine Hardwicke, which should please fans.

New Moon poster

Liam — Tue, 19 May 2009 22:58:44 +0000

Summit Entertainment have released the first poster for The Twilight Saga: New Moon which features Kristen Stewart as Bella Swan, Robert Pattinson as Edward Cullen and Taylor Lautner as Jacob Black.

In other Twilight saga news Pattinson confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter that Summit will be moving ahead with a fourth film.

New Moon to Start Filming in March

Liam — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 01:03:45 +0000

I am sure everyone is fully aware of Twilight and the huge amount of money it has made since it was released. As of now the film has tripled it’s budget, so it’s no surprise Summit Entertainment want to get their fangs out again for a second round. After the huge opening weekend Summit officially greenlight the sequel, New Moon, and now Kristen Stewart told Ryan Seacrest on KiisFM that filming would begin as early as next March.

I haven’t seen Twilight and don’t intend to. Infact I am getting tired of writing the word ‘Twilight’, so it’s a good job the next movie won’t be called ‘Twilight 2′ otherwise I would simply boycott writing about it.