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Nov 22, 2009

'New Moon' Shreds Movie Records - Deadline Hollywood News

'NEW MOON' SHREDS MOVIE RECORDS! Opens To $72.7M Friday & $43M Saturday; 'Twilight' Sequel Tracking $140M Weekend - All-Time 3rd Biggest; 'Blind Side' Big, Too

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).

Stephenie Meyer's "Twilight Saga" novels -- New Moon is the second in the series -- are now proving as much of a phenomenon as comic books for source material at the box office. New Moon also has shown that when the female audience supports a film, it can absolutely dominate box office. The pic is confirmed to have debuted to $72.7 million Friday from 4,024 North American theaters. This shattered both previous All-Time Friday and Single Day records of $67 million set by 2008's The Dark Knight. Friday's total included New Moon's $26.27M in 12:01AM screenings from 3,514 theaters. That set a new midnight opening record, smashing The Dark Knight's $18.4M set on July 18, 2008, and Harry Potter And The Half Blood Prince's $22.2M set on July 15, 2009.

Saturday's take looks down an expected -40% for $43M with another -40% drop anticipated on Sunday. Clearly the "A-" CinemaScore which the pic scored helped mitigate. That number won't break the all-time opening weekend record set by The Dark Knight of $158.4M in 2008 or by Spider-Man 3 of $151.M in 2007. But it does jump into the No. 3 spot previously held by Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest with $135.6M in 2006. But all three of those movies were released in the summer, unlike New Moon which also scored the biggest Non-Summer Friday-Saturday-Sunday (3-Day) Weekend opening ever. (Note that none of these numbers have been adjusted for inflation or higher ticket costs or theater counts.) Amazing, especially since Hollywood thought New Moon might, repeat might, do Iron Man numbers of around $100M.

New Moon also smashed the $36M earned by Twilight on its first Friday exactly a year ago. (Thursday night, Summit re-issued Twilight in 2,057 theaters and took in $1.3M.) Twilight’s opening weekend total was $69.7M.

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Nov 21, 2009

Official "New Moon" Friday Numbers - PROnetworks News

UPDATE SATURDAY 11:30 AM:FRIDAY NUMBERS:

Summit Entertainment has announced that The Twilight Saga: New Moon took in $72.7M from 4024 theaters on Friday, setting a new all-time single day box office record.

Friday's number includes the previously reported all-time record $26.27M in midnight screenings.

This one-day total is also not far below the $85M 3-day weekend estimate originally proffered by Summit and accepted by many industry insiders. Few expected the film to approach the $100M mark.

My personal guess, which I made last Tuesday, was $110M. Based on the numbers already in, advance sales, and tracking polls, some are now predicting a $125M weekend. That wouldn't top The Dark Knight's $158.4M opening but would be the biggest non-summer 3-day opening weekend of all time. This opening day number far surpasses that for The Dark Knight, which took in $67.17M on July 18, 2008 (including $18.4M from midnights). That film's take dropped 29.1% from Friday to Saturday to bring in another $47.65M, and ended with $43.6M on Sunday for an opening weekend total of $158.4M.

As I've been saying all week on my Twitter, though, the key to the total weekend box office will be the percentage drop (or increase) from Friday to Saturday. One year ago this weekend, Twilight dropped 40.8% from Friday to Saturday. As terrific as that film's opening day's numbers were, they didn't hold up. So that's the key to this weekend.

No matter how well New Moon did on Friday it won't surpass 3-day record holder The Dark Knight if there's a significant decline today. This one day total, by the way, is slightly more than double Twilight's $36M opening day a year ago and surpasses its total opening weekend take of $69.6M.Let's crunch some numbers.

A 20% drop today would bring in another $58.16M. That totals $130.86M going into Sunday.

That's not far from The Dark Knight territory already. Cutting Saturday's total in half on Sunday equals a 3-day total of just under $160M. Even a decline of 40% today adds $43.62M on Saturday, totaling $116.32 heading into Sunday. No matter what the totals turn out to be, this will be the biggest opening of all time for an independent film. 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.

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Nov 15, 2009

Twilight Cast on 60 Minutes Australia :D

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Nov 14, 2009

My Oprah Twilight Show Adventure :D

Thank you to @lostinsuburbia for letting me know that we could enter our Twilight story at the Oprah's website THANK YOU GIRL...YOU ROCK!!

I was lucky enough to be invited to attend the Oprah live show on Friday Nov 13th

The experience was an adventure, Oprah treated us to an early screening of the movie New Moon on Thursday Nov 12th

We were surprise by Stephenie Meyer, she told us that she had not seen a complete version of the movie and that it was going to be her first time OMG we were totally surprised and excited.

Stephenie looks so cute I was so happy to be able to see her in person WOW

The movie was AWESOME...enough said!!

WILL NOT spoil the movie at all, I can only say that I am still counting the days for the opening night so I can see it again as many times as I can LOL

Friday Morning we went to see the show at the Harpo Studios :D

Oprah gave all of us in the audience the Twilight Saga Book box collection and the chance to meet and get a personalize autograph from Stephenie Meyer on one of our new books.

Stephenie Meyer went across the street from the studios into Oprah's store to do the signings
These are the only pics I have from my adventure :D

Please remember that Chicago is the WINDY city, check out my hair in the 1st picture LOL could not help it LOL

Yes I totally went fan girl on Stephenie Meyer....

...but I know you can understand right??

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The New Moon Cast Interviews

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TAYLOR LAUTNER

THE VOLTURI

CHRIS WEITZ

THE CULLENS

THE WOLF PACK

Don't forget to pick up a copy of Entertainment Weekly WOW!!

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Twilight Cast New Moon Tour GERMANY!!

Thank you Teamsche for the Video!!

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To see the HQ Pictures from the Germany Event go to ROBERT PATTINSON ONLINE site

Nov 11, 2009

'Twilight,' 'New Moon' author Stephanie Meyer will be on The Oprah Winfrey show Friday

BY Gina Salamone
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER

"Twilight" author Stephenie Meyer will be on a guest on "Oprah" Friday in her only promotional interview for the movie, "New Moon."

Meyer, who wrote the four novels that make up the vampire romance series "Twilight," wrote about the appearance on her official web site.

The 35-year-old author says she's "amazed and thrilled" with what director Chris Weitz did with "New Moon" in the second film to be made from the series, opening Nov. 20.

"Since I'm only doing one interview, better make it big," Meyer wrote before the Oprah announcement.

"Of course, most of the questions for Oprah will be designed for a broader audience than just die-hard 'Twilight' fans, and I imagine people who read this site and other fansites will already know most of the answers," she added.

To appease more informed fans, she's inviting them to submit "New Moon" movie-related questions to TheTwilightSaga.com through Tuesday, and will post the answers to the most frequently asked ones on Nov. 16.

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I will be one of the lucky Twilighters that got invited to go to the Oprah Show Nov 13th
Oprah is going to show us the Movie Thursday Nov 12th how cool is that??

Our friend @Lostinsuburbia was invited to attend as well

I will post my adventure of this event over the weekend

I AM SO EXCITED IS BEYOND BELIEVE!!!!!!!

Hot Topic Press Tour with Kellan and Ashley in Fox Valley Mall Aurora, IL

If you remember a week or so ago @LOSTINSUBURBIA and me @TWILIGHTILDAWN met for the first time and camped all night at the Fox Valley Mall in Aurora, IL to get our Wristbands to meet Kellan n Ashley at the Hot Topic event :D she is AWESOME

Today we met again in line waiting to see Kellan n Ashley and WE TALKED TO THEM they totally rock!!

Kellan is beyond beautiful, he is so cute and funny, Ashley is beautiful as well she was so sweet.

Thank you to @lostinsuburbia for bringing her awesome camera and taking pictures of the event. My phone camera sucks.

Thank God she is taller that me LOL here you go!!