NEW MOON opens to $140 million, THE BLIND SIDE opens big
New Moon sparkled like a vampire in the daylight this weekend, taking in $140.7 million at the domestic box office. That’s enough to give The Twilight Saga: New Moon the third biggest opening of all-time, behind The Dark Knight ($158m) and Spider-Man 3 ($151m). The film is on pace to beat Twilight‘s $192 million total gross by the end of the week. But New Moon isn’t the only big news to come out of the box office this weekend. We can quietly forgive Sandra Bullock for All About Steve because the actress just had the biggest opening in her career. The Blind Side, about a family that takes in a young man for the streets, took in $34.5 million. It’s the second time this year, Sandra has bested herself, the other time being when The Proposal opened to $33.6...
Read More$72.7 million for NEW MOON. Breaks midnight, single day, and Friday records.
UPDATE: The official numbers put The Twilight Saga: New Moon at $72.7 million for it’s opening day. Still the biggest single day and Friday grosses ever. Sorry, Dark Knight fans. EARLIER: Well, I said The Twilight Saga: New Moon was going to be big, but I never thought it would be this big. Nikki over at DHD posted this morning that Twilighters forked over $76 million on Friday alone, giving New Moon the biggest single day and the biggest Friday in box office history. That $76 million figure includes the $26 million that New Moon made at midnight. Also a record. New Moon was made for $50 million. It could bring in triple its budget by Thanksgiving (if not by the end of the weekend depending on the number of double- and triple-dippers). Of the top five single days...
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While Disney’s A Christmas Carol won the weekend with a lackluster $31 million, it was Precious that outperformed all expectations. The film about an young woman from the ghetto who is abused by her mother and impregnated by her father took in $1.8 million at the weekend box office. Variety notes that the $100,000 per screen average is a record for any film that opened in less than 50 theaters. That’s good news for the Oprah and Tyler Perry endorsed indie. Maybe this grim film will turn out to be a bigger hit than anyone (other than Lionsgate) thought it would...
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