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BOX OFFICE BEAT DOWN: The Twilight Saga: New Moon Earns $140 Million
November 23rd, 2009
Weekend Box Office
1) The Twilight Saga: New Moon - $140 million
2) The Blind Side - $34.5 million
3) 2012 - $26.5 million
4) Planet 51 - $12.6 million
5) Disney's a Christmas Carol - $12.2 million
6) Precious - $11 million
7) The Men Who Stare at Goats - $2.7 million
8) Couples Retreat - $1.9 million
9) The Fourth Kind - $1.7 million
10) Law Abiding Citizen - $1.6 million
The Twilight Saga: New Moon, which is the sequel to the ridiculously successful 2008 teen-vampire film Twilight based on the books by Stephanie Meyer, took a real big bite out of its competition this weekend to take the number one spot in the box office. The film, which was released on 4,024 screens made an amazing $34,965 per screen for a record setting $140 million opening weekend total, putting it third in all time opening weekend tallies right behind The Dark Knight and Spider-Man 3, respectively. However the Sandra Bullock football film, The Blind Side based on the true story of NFL Offensive Lineman Michael Oher, served well as counter-programming as it made $11,096 per screen on 3,110 screens for an impressive $34.5 million opening weekend at the box office.
Last week's number one film, the Roland Emerich directed disaster flick 2012, slipped two places to number three in its second week on the charts. The movie made an additional $26 million this weekend bringing it's total to around $108 million a little over half of its purported $200 million budget. The last of this weeks new releases to break the top five was the reverse-alien-invasion animated movie Planet 51, which made $4,152 per its 3,035 screens for an opening weekend total of $12.6 million. Rounding out the top five this week was the Jim Carrey as Scrooge holiday film, Disney's a Christmas Carol, which made an additional $12.2 million for a total of $79.7 million in its third week of release.
This week's big winner in limited release was the Pedro Almodovar directed Broken Embraces starring Penelope Cruz which made an outstanding $54,000 per each of its two theaters for a total of $108,000 in its opening weekend. Although it dropped 25.2% in its second week, Wes Anderson's animated version of author Roald Dahl's celebrated children's book The Fantastic Mr. Fox starring George Clooney and Meryl Streep continues to do well in limited release, making an additional $199,000 for a total of $558,000 before the film begins a wider release next week. However, Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, a not-a-remake of the 1992 Harvey Keitel film Bad Lieutenant, this time starring Nicolas Cage as the bad cop was unable to find its place with audiences earning only $9,519 per its twenty-seven theaters for a disappointing opening weekend total of only $257,000.
Next weekend will see three new films enter into wide release over the Thanksgiving Day holiday. Disney will be releasing two big movies for the holiday weekend beginning with its first hand-drawn animated musical in several years, The Princess and the Frog, featuring the music of Randy Newman and the parental comedy, Old Dogs, starring Robin Williams and John Travolta. Also in wide release next week is the Joel Silver and Wachowski Brothers produced ninja action film, Ninja Assassin starring Korean pop singer Rain. Opening in limited release next week is the post-apocalyptic, father and son film The Road starring Viggo Mortensen and Charlize Theron, Me and Orson Welles starring teen-sensation Zac Efron and director Rebecca Miller's new film The Private Lives of Pippa Lee starring Robin Wright and Blake Lively. Check back in seven days to see who comes out on top at the box office next week.
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Now that today's lecture is done lol, I concur with your statement about Batman. Just on a story comparison/contrast scale, Batman wins by a landslide. Vampires have been done a lot. Batman, not so much, at least in the sense to where it does so well and has a great story that people like it more than other films. For a comic book movie, that's pretty impressive. Batman has meaning and purpose, sparkly vampires fighting against tiny "were"-wolves who protect the humans is okay, but it's also borrowing plot parts from Underworld. So it's not very original in that sense. That's why it isn't as great as BB or TDK. They are original. Nothing like it. Sure, other movies copy Batman's formula, but no movie is like their film. BB and TDK are on their own little island of greatness, and other films are on the other big island sharing wishing they were on the awesome island with BB and TDK lol.
twilight took 1.5 stars on a scale of 5.
this one at least improves twilight from 1.5 to around 3.
now eclipse is supposed to be the shit.. so lets hope that will arrise it up to a good 4.. then i am ok w/ the series.. i have nothing against it..
i liked it.. but to consider comparing it to TDK. ARE YOU CRAZY.. HAVE YOU LOST YOUR MIND.. NOT IN A MILLION YEARS..
Aficionado: One thing about The Dark Knight. Yeah, many people went to see the movie because of Heath Ledger's death, but it did repeat business for the story. No movie is making $500,000,000+ because of someone's death- plot and word of mouth had a great hand in making The Dark Knight the juggernaut it was.
To anyone who actually cares about movie records: Get a life. This is no big deal. With more movie theaters springing up and the cost of tickets more likely to rise than fall, these records don't really last. Not to mention the fact that they're skewed to begin with(older people have told me that if all prices were equal, Gone With The Wind would be #1. Whether or not that's true is debatable). So stop worrying about another movie taking a record away from The Dark Knight. After all, some of you may have a hand in helping a movie break the record by going to see it.
Idiot.
I also forgot to mention that you're crazy if you think there's enough Batman fans to have gotten TDK that amount of money.
Yeah, Bane's a warrior. Let's applaud him for being one of the many Batman "fans" who have a Joker avatar. How original. He failed to mention the fact that the money New Moon pulled in was mostly from die hard fans, while, like I said, most of TDK's earnings were from people who wanted to see a dead actor. I'm not a fan of the Twilight Saga and yeah, TDK was a much better film(DUH), but it wasn't a horrible movie.
He also failed to to acknowledge that, yeah, Twilight probably won't be as popular 70 years from now, but its effect will linger on. It's paved a path for new imaginings on not only the vampire genre, but probably other genres as well. We will be seeing teenage girl-aimed takes on science fiction, fantasy, and maybe even super heroes(gasp). I can see it now: a lady decides to write a story about a teenage girl who falls in love with a mysterious guy, who ends up having superhuman powers. The villains will be decked out in Abercrombie clothes. It's coming. You better get used to it.
Some of your principles are so out there, it's not even funny. Most of the women seeing this movie probably laugh at the fact that you like movies about guys in spandex who swing from webs just like you're laughing at their love for shirtless werewolves and sparkling vampires. Are you so closed minded that you can't accept women(who btw, will one day carry your children if you ever decide to crawl out of your parents' basement and join the real world) finding something they can enjoy while men continue to go gaga over a shirtless Megan Fox or Jessica Alba? We're all equal here.
The ones who call Twilight a masterpiece can shove it, because it's not, but, like your Transformers or your G.I. Joes, it's just pure fun, and maybe something more than that. Have you even seen the movie, Bane? I'm not a Twilighter. But I'm not a close minded imbecile, either.
Blind Side was good. 2012 was desent, nothing special.
I havent seen an opening this successful since 'Dark Knight' and 'Harry Potter'
thank God there's only two movies left so people can stop complaining about this series
I mean really, why are some people taking this so personally?
New Moon.... no comment.
The Batman has been a cultural icon since 1939 when he first appeared in detective comics 27...and 70 years later hes still as stong an icon through out the world
do u think twilight will be remembered in 70 years...nope
do u think its fans now are gonna pass on the experience of these stories and the characters to last another 7 decades...nope
will people still be buying some kind of twilight memorabilia in 2079 cuz of its great characters and impact its had on the world, literature,myths, culture and our imaginations...not by then
this is just a passing fad that will die out once the last film is out on dvd, maybe even before that if it so overposed people start to care less for it
but i know one thing for sure, batman was here before us, its still here with us now, and maybe in our lifetime well see another bat film made all over again and many after were gone for the next generations, cuz the character is legendary and no one, not even a whole army of " TEAM EDWARD " fans is gonna change that...not one bit...nuff said :]