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NO SEX, VIOLENCE OR STARS, YET #1: 'Twilight' Takes Biggest $35.7M Bite Out Of Box Office Friday; Bond #2, 'Bolt' #3
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First numbers show that Summit Entertainment's low cost blockbuster Twilight opened huge as expected because of heavy pre-sales with $35.7M Friday from 3,419 theaters, including $7M worth of Thursday midnight shows, for what should be $75M for its first North American weekend in release. Fangirls -- or should I say fang-girls -- were buying 5 Twilight tickets per second as of early Friday morning, making Twilight online ticket-seller Fandango's fastest-selling film since The Dark Knight last July. Then the tween and teen females in store bought or homemade Twilight clothes (and even Twilight tattoos) flocked to the first Big Screen version of Stephenie Meyer's bestselling series of Romeo & Juliet-style vampire romance books. Yet the movie adaptation was made by start-up studio Summit for only $37M. This will be the start of a big new franchise since a sequel is already in the works -- New Moon, based on Meyer's second book in the series. The first box office records have already been broken by Twilight's girl power. This is the biggest opening for a female director. Catherine Hardwicke is easily beating Mimi Leder's $41.1M for 1998's Deep Impact. (But with an asterisk since these figures aren't adjusted for inflation, ticket prices, etc.) Twilight will have the 2nd best opening day for a November release behind Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire, and the 11th best Friday opening of all time, beating the first Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone, and the 15th best opening day ever. Summit is expecting at least another $24M for Saturday and another $15M for Sunday.

AussieAnatomy627 wrote:I saw the movie last night. It was a lot better than I expected. I had my annoyances but overall pretty good. They're definitely making New Moon though. 35.7 million dollars in one day!

When is the movie releasing for you guys? I don't want to say anything before then.

The problem is, with the hype surrounding the first film based on Stephenie Meyer’s best-selling young adult novels, 98 percent of the audience knows Edward is a vampire before the movie starts.

That's what I wanted going on in my head when I saw "Twilight". Instead, I thought, "This sucks. Is the book really this corny?

Let's just look at Edward. Played by Robert Pattinson, he certainly dresses very well and I'm sure many teenage hearts flutter at the very sight of his picture, but he just didn't do anything for me. The storyline is full of intense scenes with lots of emotions and Pattinson just could not deliver.

The intense stares almost always made him look like he was constipated and watching him try to come up with some sort of energy between Edward and Bella just looked painful.

However, as one of my non-Twilight fans put it, “Robert Pattinson makes up for everything.”

rbs89 wrote:

However, as one of my non-Twilight fans put it, “Robert Pattinson makes up for everything.”