Posts Tagged ‘box office’

CNN: Yes, Hollywood, Women Do Go To Movies

4th December 2009 by Twilight_News 25 Comments

CNN talks about how New Moon and films like The Blind Side surprise Hollywood executives with their success. It’s an interesting tale of history repeating itself on Valentine’s Day and then amnesia striking. The stats on the decline of women’s roles and directors is particularly telling.
“There’s an old Hollywood tale, and it goes like this: [...]

New Moon About to Eclipse Twilight Total

27th November 2009 by Twilight_News 56 Comments

According to Hit Fix New Moon brought in over $14 million dollars on Wednesday.
“”The Twilight Saga: New Moon” go?  After making another $14.3 million on Wednesday for a new U.S. total of $179 million, the question isn’t whether it will hit the $250 million mark it’s whether it can hit $300 million.  Considering the first [...]

New Moon By The Numbers

25th November 2009 by Twilight_News 8 Comments

Here’s the latest analysis of the Box Office numbers and what it all means. According to Box Office Mojo New Moon is in the number 12 position with a domestic earning of $153,345,623.
As our favorite number’s analyst Larry Richman points out:
“Monday’s box office numbers are in. The Twilight Saga: New Moon took in another [...]

New Moon Continuing to Break Records

22nd November 2009 by Twilight_News 13 Comments

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 [...]

Holy Box Office Smash! New Moon Beats Dark Knight?

20th November 2009 by Twilight_News 165 Comments

Official Summit Number now in!
“Summit has announced that The Twilight Saga: New Moon has officially set a new all-time midnight box office record, taking in $26.27M from 3514 theaters.”
According to Larry at ProNetworks (someone who regularly watches these things):
“UPDATE 12:00 NOON:
Unofficial reports say The Twilight Saga: New Moon has shattered The Dark Knight’s $18.4M midnight [...]

So…What Did You Think?

20th November 2009 by Twilight_News 296 Comments

If you didn’t see the movie yet, click on the comments at your own peril. Unsurprisingly, critics don’t like it. The one issue we thought was rather funny that many of them brought up is that they thought it was poorly paced whereas it’s not a flaw that we see, though there are others (Alice’s [...]

Waiting on the Box Office Numbers

20th November 2009 by Twilight_News 7 Comments

Thanks to Larry from ProNetworks who’s been following it all. He’s been Tweeting updates. Here’s where we stand according to Larry (will update this post as figures come in):
“Early word is that New Moon could break Dark Knight’s midnight record.
Dark Knight did 18.4M from 3040 midnites, 67M Friday, -29% Fri-Sat = 47.6M, 43.6M Sun = [...]

Where will New Moon Rank?

19th November 2009 by Twilight_News 28 Comments

Last year, according to Box Office Mojo,
Twilight was the 7 th place finishing film earning $191,465,414 at the domestic box office. It opened with $69,637,740 at the 3,419 theaters where it was shown opening weekend.
This year New Moon is currently the record holder for the highest presales ever on Fandango. It is opening at [...]

Taylor Lautner Interview on Box Office

23rd September 2009 by Twilight_News 33 Comments

Taylor is his usual down-to-earth and informative self:
“If the last two books in the series hadn’t already been written, what do you think Jacob should do to win over Bella?
I don’t think he would have changed anything, and I don’t think he should change anything. Jacob and Edward are extremely different guys and it’s just [...]