“New Moon” Breaks Midnight Box Office Record; New “Twilight” Film Earns $26.27 Million
The Twi-Hards turned out in record numbers to catch the first showings of The Twilight Saga: New Moon early Friday money. The second installment of Bella and Edward’s love story outperformed boy wizard Harry Potter, who previously held the record for midnight box office.
According to box office numbers released by Summit Entertainment Friday afternoon, New Moon pulled in a record-breaking estimated gross of $26.27 million playing in just 3,514 theaters across the nation — that’s an average of $7,476 per theater!
The wildly-successful midnight opening “portends an opening weekend that could be one of the biggest of the year,” says Paul Dergarabedian, a box-office analyst for Hollywood.com.
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On November 21st 2009, gladys wrote:
this was expected, i mean twilight was the best movie in the universe!!!!! and sure new moon had to be the same. the books were a phenomenon, and people LIKE ME loved that a movie based on them was comming out. millions of dollars is just what new moon deserves!!!