NOTE: Previous box
office totals for The Twilight Saga: New Moon are posted
HERE.
What's next? Of course, we'll continue adding to the tally each day both domestically and internationally. But the big question is, what about next weekend? Rival studios have pretty much thrown in the towel and industry experts all agree that nothing will topple Summit Entertainment's
The Twilight Saga: New Moon from the box office just yet. Media analysts agree. How will Disney's
Old Dogs do battle with the werewolves? Will Warner Bros.
Ninja Assassin fight off the vampires? Warner "should peel more than a few young males away from [
New Moon's] largely female-driven fan frenzy," writes Carl DiOrio in
The Hollywood Reporter. However, DiOrio notes that "many
students and adults will have Friday off, and many young girls are already heading back to the theater for repeat viewings" of
New Moon.
Look for another #1 showing at the box office, with predictions of $60M being about average among analysts. Will they be proven wrong again?
UPDATE 7:00 PM FRIDAY 11/26: Thursday's box office estimates are in. The Twilight Saga: New Moon took in another $9.2M from 4042 locations with a per screen average of $2286 to kick off the four-day Thanksgiving holiday weekend. This increases the film's domestic total to $188.2M through its first seven days of release. The current worldwide total is $320.3M. There have been no new international numbers all week so the actual total should be much higher when Summit releases updated figures this Sunday. With Friday-Thursday totals counted,
The Twilight Saga: New Moon ($188.2M) had the third largest opening week of all time, behind
The Dark Knight ($238.6M) and
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest ($196M), and ahead of
Spider-Man 3 ($182M). It also puts
New Moon in sixth place on the all-time list of the first six days of wide release whenever they occurred, not just weekends. With just a few million to go to reach
Twilight's total domestic box office take of $192,769,854, after today's numbers come in
New Moon will have made more in eight days than
Twilight did in its entire 147-day run from November 21, 2008 to April 2, 2009. Although the film was toppled from first place on Thursday by Warner Bros.' football-themed
The Blind Side with $9.5M,
New Moon is expected to take the weekend.
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