According to BoxOffice Mojo:
“The Twilight Saga: Eclipse ripped into the record books with its midnight launch, grossing over $30 million at more than 4,000 theaters. That surpassed The Twilight Saga: New Moon‘s previous benchmark of $26.3 million. Included in Eclipse‘s sum was a new IMAX midnight milestone of over $1 million at 192 venues, topping Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen‘s $959,000.
The vampre(sic) romance sequel had already cast the widest opening net ever, biting into a whopping 4,416 locations (more theaters are expected to be added on Friday). Iron Man 2 previously held that title with 4,380 locations, while Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince holds the record for highest location count ever at 4,455. Eclipse‘s count includes 193 IMAX venues, which is just shy of Shrek Forever After‘s 194 record.”
The thing to keep in mind is that this figure only counts sales in the USA made through 3:00am this morning. It does not count the sales that are picked up during the day today through 11:59pm this evening. Once those figures come in tomorrow afternoon to reflect the first day’s complete total that number should be $150,000,000. This will solidly put Eclipse opening in the top ten movies of the year.
The big question is going to be if Eclipse can get to the 300,000,000 million mark. New Moon was just shy at circa 296,000,000. No matter what it is going to continues to smash records for what is a predominately female driven enterprise.
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OMGGG I WAS BLOWN AWAY!! I WAITED AT THE THEATER FROM 6:30 AND THE MOMENT IT ENDED I WAS SAYING AGAIN!AGAIN!AGAIN! I LOVE ECLIPSE!!!!!!!!!!!
WOO-HOO, Best movie, best box office tally!
Went to see it best ine so far loved it goen again at least two more times on more than new moon lets give them the best record ya whooo
I’ve seen it twice in less than 12 hours. Love, Love, Love it. Lots of Jackson face time. Yummy!!
Dear Eclipse fans,
Eclipse is getting an unfairly low score in IMDB (3.2/10) and I suspect Twilight heaters for giving bad marks regardless to the movie’s quality. Let’s for those who sow the movie and liked it go to imdb website and fix this .
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1325004/
Come on guys, Eclipse must get a better score ! it is the best in the saga this far!
I’m quite excited about seeing the movie! Though I’m also VERY excited to see the preview for Harry Potter 7 – Part 1 too!
That is great!!!!!!
Can’t wait going tonight
Sweet!!
no surprise there! it was AMAZING!!!!
I figured it would be big numbers!!
My daughter and I went last night….LOVED IT!! It was AWESOME!
It was a very long line. But it didn’t take that long for it to start moveing
Loved it!!
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6.5 hrs in line and soooo worth every second of it!
Loved. One of my nieces went with me, no line. We went early for the Twilight & New Moon movies first, and then were escorted straight into the Eclipse screen. Was awesome!!!! And we are planning on a re-do this evening since I stupidly came in to work! LOL!
soo worth 5.5 hours waiting to see it
I saw it in IMAX- that is the way to go- AWESOME!!!!!
watched it on regular screen at midnight and today on IMAX! I LOVE IT!!
SAW ALL THREE IN A ROW IT WAS AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Saw all 3 in a row too. LOVED Eclipse and can’t wait to see it again. Would love to see it on IMAX but I live in the Nashville area and our only IMAX theater was flooded.
All three in a row, was fabulous!!!
I also saw all three in a row…it was great. It really got everyone excited to see Eclipse. Our theater was great in that it allowed us to stay in our original seats and not have to go back out to the lobby and wait in line after New Moon (or we would have had to have miss part of New Moon). We had the pick of seats before they allowed the people who waited several hours in line…felt bad for them but we put in our time too!
Movie was amazing!! I’m seeing it again tonight and I can’t wait!
loved it, it was the best so far. cant wait till Breaking Dawn
Best so far! LOVED, LOVED, LOVED it!!
Dont get to see it here in Ireland for another 48 hours……gonna be longest 48hrs ever….sooooo excited xxx