New Moon Wolfs Up Box Office Records
Written by Wayne Hall on November 23, 2009 – 12:00 pm -This was a movie weekend for the record books, according to Variety.
New Moon, the sequel to Twilight, took in $140.7 million, which may turn out to be the second-best weekend ever at the domestic United States box office in terms of overall ticket sales.
Moon’s first weeknd in theaters falls behind only The Dark Knight ($158.4million) and Sony’s Spider-Man 3 ($151.1 million). The movie removed Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest ($135.6 million) from the third-highest position in terms of top opening for a three-day weekend.
The movie also sucked in the best midnight gross ever, as well as best first-day gross, reflecting the strength of the franchise’s fanbase. Friday midnight runs generated $26.3 million, while the full Friday number topped out at $72.7 million, besting the $67.2 million grossed by Dark Knight.
How does this compare to Twilight? Exactly a year ago on this weekend, that film earned $69.7 million. Already, New Moon has far surpassed the first film in the franchise.
Planet 51, the animated comedy from Sony about humans landing on an alien planet, beamed in $12.6 million to place fourth, just behind 2012, which took in another $26.5 million to bring it to a two-week total of $108.2 million.
Tags: New Moon, Spider-Man 3, The Dark Knight, Twilight, Variety
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