The Twilight vampire romance sequel New Moon took a record-breaking bite out of the North American box office this weekend, final figures showed on Monday.
The second big-screen instalment adapted from Stephenie Meyer’s phenomenally successful books raked in an astounding $142,8-million in three days, the third biggest opening of all time, Exhibitor Relations said. Only Batman sequel The Dark Knight with $158,4-million and Spider-Man 3 with $151,1-million have scored bigger openings.
However, the New Moon earnings are considered remarkable because the film was released in November, outside of the traditional summer blockbuster season. Although the movie was unable to dethrone The Dark Knight or Spider-Man 3 for highest opening weekend, it did set records for biggest midnight opening and opening day, figures showed. ~ IOL
Pretty incredible! I’m yet to watch it – Friends have told me that it’s absolutely brilliant, way better than the first one!
Bring back memories of Twilight Google ;)
You should definitely make time to see it, I was pleasantly surprised by it :)
We had our premiere for the movie on Monday night, you can check out some pics at http://www.twilightseries.co.za/twilight/premiere-photos/ :)
I don’t really like those types of movies but I enjoyed it! I only watched the first one like two weeks ago.
I’m definitely going to make time to see it, there’s no doubt about that. Vampires aren’t really my thing, but wow did the first one blow my mind away, I raced out and bought the DVD immediately! :D
Not the best movie I’ve ever seen – in fact I could have done with one of the Wake Mate widgets – just a slight problem with the snoring though!
@Edutchman – The question is, what did you think of the first movie?