Twilight's 'New Moon' wolfs down $140.7M in opening weekend

[fundamental21ticket]

LOS ANGELES - The vampire romance "The Twilight Saga: New Moon" sucked up $140.7 million in its first three days and pulled in a total of $258.8 million worldwide, according to studio estimates Sunday.

The No. 1 domestic debut for Summit Entertainment's "New Moon" was more than twice the $69.6 million haul over the same weekend last year for "Twilight," the first in the franchise based on Stephenie Meyer's novels.

"New Moon" placed third on the all-time domestic chart behind last year's $158.4 million opening weekend for the Batman blockbuster "The Dark Knight" and 2007's $151.1 million haul for "Spider-Man 3."

On Friday, "New Moon" set an all-time domestic high for opening day with $72.7 million, topping the previous record of $67.2 million had been held by last year's "The Dark Knight."

Overseas, "New Moon" debuted in 25 countries and took in $118.1 million.

"New Moon" continues the story of teen romance between a school girl and a vampire (Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson), with the sequel adding a love triangle with a teen werewolf (Taylor Lautner).

Opening at No. 2 this weekend was the Warner Bros. football drama "The Blind Side" with $34.5 million.

The previous weekend's top movie, Sony's disaster tale "2012," slipped to third-place with $26.5 million, raising its domestic total to $108.2 million.

I knew it was going to have a hugeweekend but didn't know it would come down to record numbers.

 

[kicktionair]

horny teenage girls

 

[KingParappa]

Plenty of them seen it multiply times too. Prolly a good movie I'll never see

 

[TheGodFresco]

Originally Posted by Uptempo kid

Plenty of them seen it multiply times too. Prolly a good movie I'll never see

yep

 

[crumbs]

well damn.

 

[nothin4ever]

CHICK FLICK

WITH FETISHES OF PASTY WHITE PEOPLE

 

[regal black]

It's a good movie, but its way too long imo

 

[jordan fetish]

Originally Posted by Nothin4ever

CHICK FLICK

WITH FETISHES OF PASTY WHITE PEOPLE

nope .. fetishes for sexy tanned bodies.

 

[meshies]

over a quarter billion in 3 days... im def in the wrong industry

 

[freshnikes]

i didn't get off work till 3am because of this damn movie. and I had to be back at work at 9 am today smh

working at a movie theater ftl

 

[mez 0ne]

Ripped white boy vampires who sparkle, yeah....teenage girls eat this garbage up.

 

[daprescription]

Originally Posted by Nothin4ever

CHICK FLICK

WITH FETISHES OF PASTY WHITE PEOPLE

I went with a friend last night and it was 70% asian males.

 

[phil le0tard0]

Originally Posted by daprescription

Originally Posted by Nothin4ever

CHICK FLICK

WITH FETISHES OF PASTY WHITE PEOPLE

I went with a friend last night and it was 70% asian males.

I believe you too

 

[regal black]

Originally Posted by meshies

over a quarter billion in 3 days... im def in the wrong industry

........yea the cast is definitely cakin'

 

[KingParappa]

Originally Posted by JoRdAn fEtIsH

Originally Posted by Nothin4ever

CHICK FLICK

WITH FETISHES OF PASTY WHITE PEOPLE

nope .. fetishes for sexy tanned bodies.

Yea alot of them chicks went to see Jacob. Taylor Lautner is about to be swimming in girls. Hope Taylor Swift ain't the jealous type...

 

[nostrandave68]

Budget for the movie was only about 50Mill.

Director is seeing figures

 

[regal black]

Originally Posted by NostrandAve68

Budget for the movie was only about 50Mill.

Director is seeing figures

I need to get into the acting business

 

[big j 33]

Well there's two more movies coming out in the future too, so expect this to repeat itself and then some.

 

[inine5]

so either this means ticket prices are at an all-time high or there are more twilight fans than star wars, transformers, marvel comics, harry potter????

 

[coolnificent]

Originally Posted by Kicktionair

horny teenage girls

 

[darth dnzy]

Originally Posted by GSDOUBLEU

Originally Posted by Uptempo kid

Plenty of them seen it multiply times too. Prolly a good movie I'll never see

yep

--This. Teenage girls probably at the mall catching every showing possible.

--Twilight..I dont see what the big deal is.

 

[big j 33]

Well they're splitting the final Potter into two films, both should be huge though.

 

[justhotkicks]

Originally Posted by Uptempo kid

Plenty of them seen it multiply times too. Prolly a good movie I'll never see

 

[jrp44]

Originally Posted by justhotkicks

Originally Posted by Uptempo kid

Plenty of them seen it multiply times too. Prolly A good movie I'll never see

 

[presequel]

movie was terrible. we downloaded it last night and watched.