Jet Set Jen: New Moon Photo Gallery

Christina Radish has some great photos shot on the New Moon red carpet.

See them all on Jet Set Jen!

New Moon Continuing to Break Records

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 until Sunday. But the sequel’s vampires and werewolves shattered the All-Time 3rd Biggest Opening Weekend record of $135.6M (see below).”

Now what does that mean? Hands down the best number analysis that fans can understand right now is coming from Larry over at ProNetworks (3:00 am Eastern Time Sunday):

“For those who are new to the box office numbers game, it may seem odd to have these figures this early in the weekend. But it is standard procedure to have early Saturday totals come in late Saturday night. Most theater chains have already filed their reports at that point and many studios have access to them and unofficially release the information. Once those figures arrive they always estimate Sunday and come up with a weekend projection. Then, several hours later on Sunday, the official numbers are issued for Saturday. At that point they predict Sunday numbers again and come up with a revised weekend projection. This is always done on Sunday. Of course, Sunday and weekend figures can only be estimates at this point. The actual Sunday numbers aren’t known until Monday. But many years and literally thousands of projections have yielded formulas that allow the industry to predict fairly closely what Sunday will be based on Friday and Saturday’s numbers and, therefore, what the weekend will look like. The actual numbers that come in on Monday are usually not too far off from the estimates made on Sunday. They usually adjust slightly up or down but are rarely far off.

No matter what the totals turn out to be, this is already the widest opening of all time for an independent film and guaranteed to be the biggest ever box office opening for an indie. The top four places are held by major Hollywood studio films: The Dark Knight (Warner Bros.) at $158.4M, Spider-Man 3 (Sony/Columbia) at $151.1M, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (Disney/Buena Vista) at $135.6M, and Shrek the Third (Paramount/Dreamworks) at $121.6M. “

Follow Larry on Twitter here.

New Moon Breaks Openning Day Record

According to Variety.com New Moon has beaten The Dark Knight’s openning day record.  After having the best midnight showing ever New Moon has now made $72.7 million in 24 hours.

Summit Entertainment’s The Twilight Saga: New Moon tore up the box office record for best opening day, grabbing the title away from Warner Bros. The Dark Knight, and earning a spectacular $72.7 million yesterday at 4,024 theaters.

An exceptional feat for a film playing outside the summer frame. 

Dark Knight had minted $67.2 million from 4,366 runs on July 18, 2008 before making a three-day opening weekend of $158.4 million.

You can read the rest of the article HERE

So…What Did You Think?

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 vision, anyone?).

Also of note, is that many of the critics are guys. Is it a Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus thing? Meaning that women want that slower pace to feel Bella’s pain whereas guys don’t?  We’re not saying the film doesn’t have flaws, but is this just the case of the guys not getting what women want?

Here’s some of what we Tweeted on the issue last night:

Side note, critics who don’t like it r all male. Not saying any1 in danger of an Oscar, but I find Transformers just as boring.

What they are seeing as slow (IMO) works as the depression Bella goes through. Thinking the fanbase not gonna have an issue

Press has never “gotten Twilight”. I could explain it, but they are so set in their cubbyhole visions they don’t want to see why it succeeds

It’s a woman’s POV film that resonates & they don’t know what the hell to make of it b/c they can’t get out of their own way fast enough.

Let me break it down: It’s the plot, stupid. It’s not that we don’t see the flaws, we love it despite the flaws! And that ticks the guys off

In 2008: Iron Man, Indiana Jones 4, Hancock are far from quality but did well. Why? They resonated w/guys. Why is what girls want a mystery

It’s going to be a top 10. Fans are happy, drive the box $, & love it. How do ya like them apples?. Oh yeah…One more thing..Bite me!”

Where do you stand?

New Moon: Pel’s Review

Summit has just given the fansites permission to post their reviews of the New Moon. Most of us saw the movie at the premiere or a pre-screening. To keep this spoiler free for people who don’t like to open their Christmas presents early the review is below the cut. If you click, be forewarned that various plot points and details will be discussed. [Read more…]

News reports pouring in from the Red Carpet

Going through our inbox is literally like playing a game of pick a video – any video! There are just so many! So we are going to give you a list of links to follow so you can watch as much of last nights coverage as you want. I’m sure we will have more and more as the day progresses.

Fox NY has three reports from the red carpet. Check out video one and video two and video three here.

CBS San Diego has their report here.

And Extra has a series of videos including some from Dakota Fanning, who we don’t have much footage of from last night, from the premier for you to enjoy.

New Moon Premiere Day Live Coverage!

It’s Premiere Day! Watch the Red Carpet happenings live! Also be sure to follow the Lexicon Twitter as we tweet the experience!

MySpace Twilight Saga: New Moon Red Carpet Live Stream

We will also be tweeting live from the carpet! If you don’t have twitter, follow us below!


MTV Exclusive Clip

On Monday, after the premiere MTV is broadcasting two Twilight specials. Check out this clip.

Edited: Apparently it’s an old clip. Our tech guy who isn’t in LA with us put it up for us. We didn’t get a chance to watch what MTV was sending us, thought it was a promo for their show and a new clip of that show. Guess not.

Volturi Featurette

Are you ready to meet the rulers of the Vampire Kingdom? Then check out the newest video on MovieTickets.com’s New Moon Fan Page titled The Twilight Saga: New Moon Volturi Featurette. This teaser goes behind the scenes with the cast and crew to give viewers a taste of who’s who in Volturi royalty and what happens when Edward breaks their most sacred rule.”

New Moon Press Pre-Screening

Looks like we have a winner folks, here’s what press that saw New Moon at a pre-screening are saying on Twitter, and mind you they pretty much aren’t allowed to say much. Off the record, we are getting thumbs ups!

THANK YOU CHRIS WEITZ!

“I was very impressed not only by the visual effects and the movie, but by the acting itself. Chris Weitz is bad ass.”

“Just saw New Moon. Better than Twilight and crowd just applauded at end. Leaves on a soap opera sting….”

“I’m not allowed to say anything! But be sure to follow me tomorrow at @celebuzz – Big day for RPattz news!”

“I enjoyed it more than Twilight, lot of frenching! RT @mytwitherapy: @JasonKennedy1 so….how was the new moon press screening?!?!? :-)”

@shaunssanctuary just came frm seeing NM.I guess it’s every girl’s dream to have a vampire & werewolf fighting over her!”

One word: amazing! I was very impressed all around – visuals were stunning. The underwater scene..le sigh. And Summit was fabulous!!”

@LarryCarroll: “New Moon” was genuinely awesome. A lot of people are about to be very happy.”