Monday, 30 November 2009 11:11 | and posted in News
Of all the movies that you would remotely anticpate breaking The Dark Knight's opening day take at the Cinema, the Twilight sequel, The Twilight Saga: New Moon, would not have been one of them. Amazingly, however, New Moon did exactly that, raking in an estimated $72.7 million in the US alone breaking The Dark Knight's previous record by over $5 million. New Moon now holds the records for the largest Opening day take, the largest single day take, the fastest movie to $100 million plus the largest grossing midnight opening ever ($26.3 million compared to The Dark Knight's $18.5 million) and the third largest weekend opening.
Wow! I'm still reeling from the shock...
To put things further into perspective, only three of the Harry Potter movies have been able to claim more than $70.5 million on their opening weekend in November, and New Moon claimed $142.8 million alltogether.
New Moon has now been out for two weeks and has taken almost half a billion dollars worldwide!