‘New Moon’ Weekend Actual: $142.8M

COMMENTS (7)

• some recession. But, look for 60% plus dropoff this weekend

  Comment by thj — Monday November 23, 2009 @ 1:23pm PST  Reply to this post

• Yes, but will those 20 million tweens/20-something females come back this friday???

  Comment by Huntley Brinkley — Monday November 23, 2009 @ 2:23pm PST  Reply to this post

• No, how much of this will the actors see? I’m assuming that their agents/lawyers were able to broker some sort of backend deal for Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson in addition to their upfront paychecks? Did they get $12 mil a piece for New Moon?

  Comment by Bugmenot — Monday November 23, 2009 @ 6:16pm PST  Reply to this post

• This is a random question but I’ve always wondered and never asked anyone: how much does a PRINT cost per screen?

  Comment by Troy — Monday November 23, 2009 @ 6:21pm PST  Reply to this post

• Rock on Twilight and Twihards.
  Keep going back for more.

  Studio execs, start wakin’ up to whats going on with Twilight, its not a one shot phenom. cuz the fan girls want more and are willing to pay $$$for it.. so —
  GET RID OF THOSE WOMEN HATING MEN WHO WORK FOR YOU, HIRE SOME FEMALE EXECS. AND FEMALE WRITERS WHO KNOW WHAT THEIR DOING!!
  YOU’RE MISSING A WHOLE AUDIENCE.. NAMELY WOMEN!!!

  The girls just wanna have fun to.
  You need to “Reassess” $$$$$ your marketing data on women going to movies, and start making movies for them like Twilight if that’s what they want to see. You’ve forgotten this whole other market..WOMEN! WOMEN GO TO MOVIES TOO.
  DUH!
  Wake up !!!

  Comment by seemoregets — Monday November 23, 2009 @ 8:41pm PST  Reply to this post

• In case the person who asked comes back, a print costs an average of $5,000, though that’s been going up lately. So, 4,000 prints at $5,000 a pop adds around $20,000,000 to a prints & advertising budget.

  That said, Technicolor brokers bulk deals and, of course, it goes in the opposite direction to strike a single print (sometimes around $15,000) of something. But also, a lot of distributors will strike a bunch of extra prints and feed them to theaters in hopes that, say, the movie will be successful and the individual theater owner might throw said extra print on a screen and take something else off during the week, so it’s not like there’s a set number of prints and they don’t go a single print over.

  Comment by Bishop — Tuesday November 24, 2009 @ 8:46am PST  Reply to this post

• Yeah, wake up, Hollywood. Women who can’t spell want more teen hunk boys making moon eyes at the screen. You underestimate how deep and intelligent this makes them!

  Comment by Heath — Wednesday November 25, 2009 @ 1:22am PST  Reply to this post