New Moon Breaking Records
According to Deadline.com ‘NEW MOON’ SHREDS MOVIE RECORDS! Opens To $72.7M Biggest Friday/Single Day (Including All-Time $26.2M Midnights); ‘Twilight’ Sequel Tracking $125M Weekend
“The night definitely belongs to Twilight.” This is what a Hollywood insider told me early this morning after NEW MOON’s late Friday night numbers came in. Summit Entertainment is now saying it debuted to $72.7 million from 4,024 North American theaters. This shatters both previous All-Time Friday and Single Day records of $67 million set by 2008’s The Dark Knight. So Batman was beaten by the Twilight sequel’s vampires and werewolves which won’t sit well with the superhero-loyal moviegoing community. But 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. And New Moon once again has shown that when the female audience supports a film, it can absolutely dominate box office. 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.
