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'New Moon' takes opening day record
Makes $72.7 million, beating 'Dark Knight' Summit Entertainment's “The Twilight Saga: New Moon” tore up the box office record for best opening day, grabbing the title away from Warner Bros. “The Dark Knight,” and earning a spectacular $72.7 million yesterday at 4,024 theaters. An exceptional ...
'New Moon' smashes 'Harry Potter' midnight ticket sales record
'New Moon' smashes 'Harry Potter' midnight ticket sales record
latimesblogs.latimes.com — The vampires have beat the boy wizard. According to four people close to the movie, "The Twilight... Saga: New Moon" sold more than $22.2 million worth of tickets in midnight shows last night, beating a record set this summer by... (more) 'New Moon' smashes 'Harry Potter' midnight ticket sales ...
THE TWILIGHT SAGA: NEW MOON.
THE TWILIGHT SAGA: NEW MOON.
dementeddoorknobmovies.blogspot.com — I'm gonna do this review a bit differently than usual (don't worry, you're not missing anything by... me skipping the usual plot blurb at the beginning. There isn't much of one to begin with. Anywho...). It's no secret that I have a large disliking of the Twilight books. Yes, I've read them all. ... (more) THE TWILIGHT SAGA: NEW MOON.
Box Office: "NEW MOON," NEW RECORDS
ercboxoffice.com — $71 MILLION OPENING DAY! $26 MILLION MIDNIGHT SHOWINGS! Twi-hards now have two box office records to call... their own: Best Midnight Opening and Best Single Day Opening. The highly anticipated sequel to "Twilight" sucked $26.3 million from movie-goes at ... (more) Box Office: "NEW MOON," NEW RECORDS
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New Moon Has Best Opening Day Of All Time
Cinema Blend News — ... that New Moon was looking to have broken the box office record for midnight screenings, and now it's gone above and beyond even that. Variety is reporting that New Moon shattered the opening day box office record yesterday, bringing in $72.7 million, including the $26.3 million from midnight screenings. Compare that to the $36 million that Twilight made on its opening day, and recognize that this whole Twilight thing is definitely not going away. Projections at ...

Hurt Scratch...Right?
Hollywood Elsewhere — Hurt Scratch...Right? Now that Summit Entertainment is looking at weekend New Moon earnings of $145 million or so (based on yesterday's record-breaking $72.7 million haul at 4,024 theaters), maybe they can afford now to make extra DVD screeners of The Hurt Locker and send them out to every Tom, Dick and Harry? You know...blanket the town like Lionsgate did with those Crash screeners in late '05 and early '06? Money's not a problem so there are no more excuses. Okay? Get 'em out there now.

NEW MOON Achieves Best Opening Day EVER!
GeekTyrant — This is insane I tell you! Yesterday we reported that The Twilight Saga: New Moon broke the record the record for midnight box office sales which was previously held by Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Today I am shocked to report that it has achieved the best movie opening day of all time with an incredible $72.7 million bucks domestically! This takes out the previous record holder, The Dark Knight, which took in $67.2 million its first day of release, and went on to make $158.4 million in opening weekend. It will be interesting to see how much New Moon makes ...

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The sequel to 2008’s Twilight proves that there’s something to be said for having a strong fan base. Despite receiving reviews that range from lukewarm to downright cold, New Moon ’s midnight release showed that a solid — and large — fan following can trump quality of ...