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FRIDAY AM UPDATE: Summit Entertainment tells me Twilight midnight shows made ”north of $7 million” Thursday. That’s a big number. Here are some other updates on the Twilight zone phenomenon: major online ticket-seller Fandango has been selling 5 Twilight tickets per second as of early this morning. According to an online poll, 34% of moviegoers said they will take off a few hours from school or the office today to see the pic. It’s Fandango’s fastest-selling film since The Dark Knight in July of this year. It now occupies the #3 spot on Fandango’s list of Top Advance Ticket-Sellers, surpassing the Harry Potter, Pirates Of The Caribbean, and Lord of the Rings movies. (Only Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith and The Dark Knight remain in the #1 and #2 spots, respectively.) Twilight also finished in the No. 5 slot on MovieTickets.com’s Top-5 Presellers of All-Time, one spot ahead of Hannah Montana & Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert and one behind Dark Knight.
Wkd Prediction: Twilight $60M, Bolt $35M
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The movie’s getting a lot of bad reviews. I think Twilight’s going to get some big numbers this weekend, but it may just wind up with the teenage girl audience over the next couple of weeks.
Picked up 2 million since midnight
‘Fastest-Selling Film In 4 Months’ is not really the greatest of accomplishments.
Still, congrats to all on the film’s inevitable success and the large piles of money you will be gleefully throwing at each other while laughing like schoolgirls.
Hey. How about Kent Alterman the director. Or is he a writer. Wait, a thespian? This is the story that was never told here. Why did Kent Alterman with no background as an artist get to direct a big budget comedy. WHY? The guy ain’t even a writer. I’m glad Semi-Pro was a bomb.
Eat dirt Kent you fool!
wow…even this site is covering Twilight’s hype…darn i was hoping this site was above all that…
@an honest answer
He was an executive producer on Little Children, Mr. Woodcock, A History of Violence, Elf, and lots more. While a cock-eyed grade of lineage, whoever he is, he’s been involved in a lot of TV & films.
To “huhwhut”:
It makes perfect sense for Nikki to report on this story – it’s huge right now in Hollywood. Everyone’s eagerly anticipating the numbers not because “OMG that guy is so dreamy!” but because of the business/marketing/box office ramifications.
From my perspective, this film is SNAKES ON A PLANE for fangirls. I know for a fact at a well-known Hollywood theater there were a LOT of empty seats during the first showing on every screen they were playing this, unlike THE DARK KNIGHT, IRON MAN, INDIANA JONES, and SEX AND THE CITY which played under similar circumstances on as many screens. Even QUANTUM OF SOLACE had more seats sold at the same theater when it played on several screens the previous Friday. I spoke with management and they were rather surprised by the lack of sales after preparing for a bigger audience to show up.
Bottom line: this film will make back its costs and make a profit, but I don’t see it cracking $100 mil or anywhere close.
i was at another big la theater and it was the complete opposite. 5 theaters all almost sold out and long lines waiting to get in. i think some people might be under estimating the fans of this film. unlike indy or quantum of solace this films base will see the film more then once. when i was leaving the theater i heard more then one teen girl talking about seeing it again.
i think people really need to stop hating on the movie the books are awsome and its a great story that is being told. everybody wanted these books to come to life and it finally happend these actors deserve all the success these movies are going to bring them. For them to have only a small budget they did a great job.
as of this week, Twilight grossed 265Million world wide. not bad for a 35 M. investment.
I LOVE TWILIGHT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I THINK IT IS SO COOL.
This latest updating is really a difficult work but you done it very well congrats for that thing.