Unless the James Bond film Quantum of Solace makes a sudden comeback in the next 48 hours, the Twilight movie just edged it out for the number 8 slot in the top finishing movies this year. Not that we’re gloating or anything, but what a large number of media pundits dismissed as a "just chick flick that wouldn’t make anything" just beat the testosterone ridden James Bond.
E! Now if you want to take into account money spent vs. money earned, Twilight beat out every film this year.
BoxOffice Mojo According to Box Office Mojo, here are the top grossing films of 2008:
| 1 | The Dark Knight | WB | $530,896,852 |
| 2 | Iron Man | Par. | $318,313,199 |
| 3 | Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull | Par. | $317,023,851 |
| 4 | Hancock | Sony | $227,946,274 |
| 5 | WALL-E | BV | $223,783,432 |
| 6 | Kung Fu Panda | P/DW | $215,434,591 |
| 7 | Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa | P/DW | $174,862,381 |
| 8 | Twilight | Sum. | $167,325,198 |
| 9 | Quantum of Solace | Sony | $164,302,659 |
| 10 | Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears a Who! | Fox | $154,529,439 |
Yeah!!!! XD We made the list!! .<
Flippin’ awesome! And let’s not forget how many of the Twilight fans are not teens either! It’s not just a teen movie! We rock!
I wish we at least got above Madagascar D=
Top ten is lovely though!
the E! link does not work!
is it just me?
it says the page does not exist
The E! link doesn’t work for me as well. :S
Let’s take pride in this, though, because remember, Madagascar was out a whole lot longer than Twilight has been!! We rock!!
Hey Top Ten Is Impressive, I was for sure that alot of Close minded Twilighters were going to make this movie flop. But in the end Im sure they saw it anyway =) I still think this was the most amazing movie that has came out in a few years….I’m not just saying that cuz Im a twilighter Im saying that as an avid movie watcher
http://movies.msn.com/movies/year-in-review/regrettable-trends/?GT1=28101&photoidx=2
Twilight made one of the “Regrettable Trends in Pop Culture: 2008 Edition”
Is it an ouch?
top 10…I think that is great!!!
Hooray for twilight! Twilighters and fans made this happened. No thanks to those who doubt the movie
YAY TWILIGHTERS WE DID IT !!! They can talk crap about us but we proved them wrong and THEY KNOW IT !!!!
CANADA PUT IN $17 MILLION IN THE DOMESTIC BOX OFFICE
whooo.
um…when ppl have to point out they are not gloating, they *are* gloating.
Twilight is the number one soundtrack on Barnes and noble and Itunes.
Number 2 on Amazon but soon to be number one and were number one with the ALL books on mostly all the book websites !
THE MOVIE WAS VERY HELPFUL IN THIS so honestly the movie couldn’t have sucked that much if all these people are buying all these after the movie ! I’m so proud that Twilight is doing really well
AND BRINGING IN NEW FANS YAY !!
Isabelle:I’m happy with that too!
Twilight made it to the top ten! That’s great!
Wish we were better that Madagascar! I still have to wait till Jan 12th to go see twilight Q.Q
Do those figures include DVD sales? Because the first six are already out on DVD, and they opened earlier in the year. Twilight hasn’t even finished it’s run at the movie theaters, it hasn’t even gone to the $1 theaters yet, or to DVD!
i think i’ll go see it again to celebrate!
twilight rocks! =P
im sure twilight made it up there because 50% of the people that saw it is obsess and went to see it 5times plus. i really hope that its still in theater after the new year.. i found two more movie buddies so i can see it two more times in the theater.
This is just awesome, take that to those who thought we couldn’t make it. We even beat out James Bond. Now that’s saying something if you ask me. Twilight may not be on the top ten on the box office, but it’s still on the top twenty. =)
Yay us..
And also..
Dark Knight! <3 As much as I love to see the Twidom expand, that movie so deserved the #1!!
Movies this year were just good in general… * happy dance *
i saw twilight being played in the cable tv in our pantry at work…i was like OMG why the hell is this shown in tv while im still waiting for its DVD release…i think it was one of the cable channels we have which played it…i dont know what the channel was though, i had to rush back to work
twilight is my biggest and so far the best escape i ever had for my not so interesting life…it makes me forget reality for a very good while..but of course i never get detached from it…TWILIGHT RULES!!!!!!!!!!!!!
YESSS WE RULE! but im kinda sad cause i expected Twilight to be like number 3 or sumthing but oh well at least everyone knows that women could also make the list! wen new moon comes out im gonna watch it as much as possible and keep spreading how good itll be!speaking of NEW MOON,when will we EVER find out if TAYLOR LAUTNER would play JACOB in NEW MOON
im dying here lol i want TAYLOR LAUTNER to be JACOB in NEW MOON itd be sad if he leaves 
Why is indiana jones on there? to me it was horrible!
BUT…….YAY TWILIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!
and i agree with EJLOVE….when will we find out if taylor is jacob or no?
$168.6 million now!!! I’m so happy even if it’s no longer shown in any theaters near my place.
I’m waiting for it to hit $250M worlwide. woohoo!
SCORE! we beat james bond!
I’m glad it made the top 10. I wish it could of made the top 5.
“Now if you want to take into account money spent vs. money earned, Twilight beat out every film this year.”
Actually, it didn’t. If you read the article you see that it beat out the Top Ten films for rate of return, but was sadly squelched by many “lower” films.
“High School Musical 3: Senior Year ($89.7 million), which grossed about eight times its $11 million budget; the Hannah Montana concert movie, which made about nine times its $7 million budget; and Cameron’s Fireproof, which cost $500,000 to produce, and made $33.1 million—or, more than 60 times its budget.”
Still, it was best of the top ones anyway.
That wasn’t the final tally for the end of the year. It was 239 mill. Just throws me for a loop when they do this. I bet The Dark Night is getting a lot of residuals from the videos too. Man, I can’t wait for Twilight to come out on video. I will be in my apartment glued to my TV watching it over and over again.