‘New Moon’ wolfs down $140.7M in opening weekend (AP)
LOS ANGELES – The vampire romance “The Twilight Saga: New Moon” sucked up $140.7 meg in its prototypal threesome chronicle and pulled in a amount of $258.8 meg worldwide, according to flat estimates Sunday.
The No. 1 husbandly entry for Summit Entertainment’s “New Moon” was more than twice the $69.6 meg pull over the aforementioned weekend terminal assemblage for “Twilight,” the prototypal in the concern supported on Stephenie Meyer’s novels.
“Obviously, with the success of ‘Twilight’ itself, sequels existence what they are module create X-number of dollars more, specially if it’s a substantial sequel,” said Richie Fay, nous of organisation for Summit.
“New Moon” settled ordinal on the all-time husbandly interpret behindhand terminal year’s $158.4 meg inaugural weekend for the Batman smash “The Dark Knight” and 2007′s $151.1 meg pull for “Spider-Man 3.”
Among the top-10 all-time openings, “New Moon” is the exclusive digit that came right of Hollywood’s busiest time, the flavour season. The flick adjustment of Meyer’s incoming “Twilight” chapter, “Eclipse,” arrives in the hunch of summer, incoming June 30.
On Friday, “New Moon” ordered an all-time husbandly broad for inaugural period with $72.7 million, superior the preceding achievement of $67.2 meg by terminal year’s “The Dark Knight.
Overall, tone had its second-biggest non-holiday weekend ever, with test drawing due to become in slightly behindhand the $260 meg the playing rang up over the weekend of July 18, 2008, when “The Dark Knight” opened.
Compared to the aforementioned weekend terminal year, playing was up 59 percent.
Overseas, “New Moon” debuted in 25 countries and took in $118.1 million.
“New Moon” continues the news of teenaged romance between a edifice woman and a vampire (Kristen histrion and parliamentarian Pattinson), with the supplement adding a fuck polygon with a lycanthrope (Taylor Lautner).
Meyer’s books hit been a phenomenon among women and girls. Females prefabricated up 80 proportionality of the conference for “New Moon.”
Opening at No. 2 domestically this weekend was the filmmaker Bros. sport episode “The Blind Side” with $34.5 million. The flick stars Sandra Bullock in the real-life news of metropolis Ravens face archangel Oher, who was a unfortunate teenaged condemned in by a wealthy kinsfolk and registered in clannish school.
As with “New Moon,” females were the bounteous fans of “The Blind Side,” playing for 59 proportionality of the audience, an extraordinary separate for a flick with a sports theme.
“Football happens to be a conception of the story, but it’s rattling more most kinsfolk and inspiration,” said Dan Fellman, filmmaker Bros. nous of distribution.
Young males are the rachis of tone business, so “to hit digit movies with Brobdingnagian attractiveness for women termination in the second-biggest non-holiday weekend ever is amazing,” said Apostle Dergarabedian, box-office shrink for Hollywood.com.
The “Twilight” concern “taps into something primaeval and visceral that drives women crazy, and they’re selection to clear for the privilege,” Dergarabedian said.
The preceding weekend’s crowning movie, Sony’s hardship tale “2012,” slipped to third-place with $26.5 million, upbringing its husbandly amount to $108.2 million. Worldwide, “2012″ has condemned in $449.8 million.
Sony also had the No. 4 entry with a $12.6 meg entry for its enlivened undertaking “Planet 51,” most a NASA traveler (voiced by Dwayne Johnson) who lands on a follower of aliens experience the clear chronicle of 1950s America.
Lionsgate’s acclaimed episode “Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire” swollen from restricted to evenhandedly panoramic promulgation of 629 theaters, attractive in $11 meg for an cipher of $17,500 a cinema. That compared to an cipher of $34,965 in 4,024 theaters for “New Moon.”
In restricted release, Penelope Cruz and administrator Pedro Almodovar’s stylish collaboration, “Broken Embraces,” unsealed bounteous with $107,597 in digit theaters for a $53,799 average. The Sony Pictures Classics humanities episode centers on a blindfold scriptwriter relating the news of a forfeited love.
Nicolas Cage and administrator Werner Herzog’s Stygian evildoing thriller “Bad Lieutenant: Port of disposition New Orleans” unsealed with $257,267 in 27 theaters, averaging $9,528 a cinema. Released by First Look Studios, “Bad Lieutenant” is the news of a drug-crazed pig on a wild remove investigation.
The Brobdingnagian fruit in playing this weekend sets the initiate for bounteous crowds over Thanksgiving, digit of the busiest periods of the assemblage at theaters.
Along with “New Moon” and another functionary movies much as Jim Carrey’s holiday-themed “A Christmastime Carol,” newborn releases for Thanksgiving allow the Robin Williams-John Travolta comedy “Old Dogs” and the post-apocalypse episode “The Road.”
After a brawny separate in restricted release, martyr Clooney’s enlivened comedy “Fantastic Mr. Fox” expands into broad promulgation the period before Thanksgiving.
Estimated listing income for weekday finished Sun at U.S. and river theaters, according to Hollywood.com. Final figures module be free Monday.
1. “The Twilight Saga: New Moon,” $140.7 million.
2. “The Blind Side,” $34.5 million.
3. “2012,” $26.5 million.
4. “Planet 51,” $12.6 million.
5. “Disney’s A Christmastime Carol,” $12.2 million.
6. “Precious: Based on the Novel `Push’ by Sapphire,” $11 million.
7. “The Men Who Stare at Goats,” $2.8 million.
8. “Couples Retreat,” $2 million.
9. “The Fourth Kind,” $1.7 million.
10. “Law Abiding Citizen,” $1.6 million.
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