Comments (16)

• Go. Away. Twilight. Please.

  Comment by nick — Monday November 17, 2008 @ 12:42pm PST  Reply to this post

• All I know is that this better make it easier for me to sell my 4 year old vampire screenplay. I think the stories are similar. Does “Twilight” have any disembowelments?

  Comment by peggy — Monday November 17, 2008 @ 2:11pm PST  Reply to this post

• i don’t understand why this movie and it’s fans seems to be annoying so many readers who post on this site. it is movie that that has loyal teen fanbase because of the book. its not the first time this has happened and won’t be the last. as with most movies if you won’t want to see it don’t. nikki is just doing her job by giving the updates since it will be a film that does reasonable well this year.

  Comment by unknown — Monday November 17, 2008 @ 2:17pm PST  Reply to this post

• I really hope Bolt will kick Twilight’s ass. I doubt it’ll happen, but hey, one can dream, right?

  Besides, Walt Disney Feature Animation (or Walt Disney Animation Studios as it’s called now) could use a big hit. They’ve been totally overshadowed by Pixar.

  Comment by Satan's PA — Monday November 17, 2008 @ 2:22pm PST  Reply to this post

• My god, who cares about “Twilight?” Certainly not your readers (I doubt that teen girls read DHD or Drudge).

  Why not write about how phenomenal, emotional, and powerful “Slumdog Millionaire” is? A movie that puts crapola like “Twilight” and nearly every other American movie to shame.

  Comment by Phun E. Nothaha — Monday November 17, 2008 @ 4:54pm PST  Reply to this post

• Twilight: An affront to healthy relationships and literacy.

  Comment by Sam Tung — Monday November 17, 2008 @ 6:37pm PST  Reply to this post

• Response from those outside the target audience (single women):

  Yawn.

  Comment by Alexander — Monday November 17, 2008 @ 7:04pm PST  Reply to this post

• Not likely. Next film is already green-lit.

  Comment by Raider — Tuesday November 18, 2008 @ 8:05am PST  Reply to this post

• That HP&HBP trailer has been kicking around the Net for months … I first saw it online when the release was scheduled for November.

  Comment by Max — Tuesday November 18, 2008 @ 10:15am PST  Reply to this post

• I just want to know if peggy’s screenplay is four years old, or if it’s about a four year old vampire…

  Comment by Indil — Tuesday November 18, 2008 @ 12:42pm PST  Reply to this post

• You hoes are just jealous.

  Comment by twilight lover — Tuesday November 18, 2008 @ 3:08pm PST  Reply to this post

• I think a $34 million opening for this would be a very generous estimate. It is hard to imagine more than $10k per theater for the weekend. $25 million still feels about right. I still don’t think it will bring in more than Bolt.

  I don’t think you even need to wait for the second weekend to see declines for this. It would not surprise me at all that Saturday is less than Friday.

  Let’s be honest. This is no Harry Potter. It’s not even close. You can’t claim that a series that has sold an impressive 17 million books is the successor to one that has sold an almost unimaginable 400 million.

  Comment by Harold — Tuesday November 18, 2008 @ 6:14pm PST  Reply to this post

• Nikki is covering this because it will be the biggest movie of the year!
  Unless you have teenage kids you cannot hope to understand the excitment that this event is generating. My daughter has been counting the days for months.

  Comment by Caroline — Wednesday November 19, 2008 @ 5:59am PST  Reply to this post

• Biggest movie of the year? Yeah, right. You honestly think this will make more money than The Dark Knight? Boy, you fangirls are even more delusional than I thought. This is not the new Titanic. Heck, this is not even the new Lord of the Rings or Harry Potter.

  Let me break it down for you. This will have a big opening weekend because of all you fangirls flocking to it. And then it will have a huge second weekend drop, because you fangirls have all seen it and because no one else has any interest in seeing it. You think guys want to see this movie? They’ll probably be forced to see this movie because their girlfriends want to see it. But apart from that, forget about it. Still, it’ll make a nice profit.

  Comment by The Underminer — Wednesday November 19, 2008 @ 3:36pm PST  Reply to this post

• Response from THIS non-tweener, single woman: Yaaaaaawn.

  Just bring on the Jonas Brothers in 3-D, please.

  Comment by Liz — Thursday November 20, 2008 @ 8:36pm PST  Reply to this post

• ok!!
  i can do that!!

  Comment by eua — Friday November 21, 2008 @ 6:33am PST  Reply to this post