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NEW MOON grossed $118.1 million from 6,681 prints in 25 markets in its first 5 days of release. That brought its worldwide gross to $258.8 million so far. A number of markets are still to report:
ARGENTINA
Argentina launched at No. 1 with 1,23M pesos (325K USD) capturing 82% of the audience with 85K admissions. It is the second best opening of the year, behind Harry Potter 6, and the 10th best opening ever in Argentina, outperforming the opening of Harry Potter 1-5. Market cume is $1,6M.
AUSTRALIA
NEW MOON grossed $15M AUD ($13.33M) from the 4-day weekend. It was the biggest industry opening, beating Harry Potter 6 which grossed $14.33M AUD. Opening day was the 3rd highest of all time. Midnight results were the highest since Star Wars: Episode 3 that garnered A$1,260M ($1.2M USD) in May 2005. NEW MOON played on 466 screens and grossed A$1.7M AUD ($1.6M). Market cume is $13.3M.
BRAZIL
The opening day grossed an estimated 3.7M Reals. Market cume is $7.4M.
BELGIUM
NEW MOON opened at No. 1. It is the second Opening day of all time, right after Harry Potter 5 (which was released on a Wednesday but during the summer) and outperformed Harry Potter 1-4.
Market cume is $2.6M.
CROATIA
NEW MOON had a record opening in Croatia, No. 1 with $225K from 15 screens. Its 3-day opening weekend is No. 1 for 2009, No. 1 opening 3-day weekend for all time.
FRANCE
NEW MOON launched at No. 1 with an estimated $17.04M from 1.9M admissions. It opened with 488K admissions on its first day from 751 prints, for a whopping $4.36M on Day One. In comparison, Twilight did 141K admissions and grossed $1.15M. NEW MOON was competing with a qualifying game by the national team to enter the next Football World Cup. Market cume is $17M.
GREECE
A No. 1 opening on Thursday, NEW MOON tallied €287,135 ($428K) from 96 screens making it the 3rd highest opening day of all time for that territory. The result is more than twice Twilight’s opening day, and significantly higher than Harry Potter 6 and Quantum Of Solace. Market cume is $1.2M.
HOLLAND
Another No. 1 for NEW MOON. The first day grossed €135,454 from 73 prints. NEW MOON's opening is 4 times that of Twilight’s at €33,000. Market cume is $1M.
ITALY
NEW MOON grossed €1.83M (USD $2.7) from 625 screens, with more still to report. It's the 3rd highest Wednesday opening ever in Italy and the best Saturday ever, with 2.9M Euros from 770 screens. Market cume is $13M.
MEXICO
Launched on Thursday to 20.2M Pesos ($1.55M USD) so far, including midnight screenings, The opening is on par with Iron Man and way ahead of 2012 (15.6M Pesos). Market cume is $7.4M.
NEW ZEALAND
With NZ$2.615M ($1.9M USD), it's the biggest Industry opening, ousting local favorite Peter Jackson's Lord Of The Rings 3 which did NZ$2.609M. On its opening day, NEW MOON grossed 902,122 NZD ($672K) from 54 screens, the 2nd biggest industry opening day in New Zealand, right behind Lord Of The Rings: Return of the King. Market cume is $1.9M.
POLAND
Market cume is $1.4M.
HUNGARY
NEW MOON opened with 37.653 admissions and HUF 41.3M (USD 230k). This is the 4th best opening day of all time after Harry Potter 5 & 6 and Star Wars 3. Market cume is $750K
THE PHILIPPINES
According to early results, NEW MOON is set to be the largest opening weekend in the history of The Philippines. Its opening day was the biggest of 2009, outperforming Transformers 2 opening day comps. Market cume is $2.1M
RUSSIA
Market cume is $6M.
SPAIN
NEW MOON opened with €1,475M (USD $2.2) from 652 screens on its first day. It's the 3rd best Wednesday opening day ever, just behind two Harry Potter installments, and finally surpassing Lord Of The Rings 3. Market cume is $13.7M.
SWITZERLAND
After two days NEW MOON brought in a total $203K off 29 prints in the French and Italian regions. Currently, it’s poised to be No.1 in both regions for the weekend. (The German region releases with Germany next week). Market cume is $767K.
UK
The highest grossing international market, NEW MOON made 4.6M GBP on its opening day. It was the No. 2 opening film of all time, right behind Quantum Of Solace which opened with 4.9 GBP. Market cume is $18.7M.
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Whoa!!! Philippines really is a twilight crazy country…it’s not a surprise anymore if its breaking box office records….
How wonderful. Let’s hope this is the beginning of a upbeat year!
Wow, caramba in Mexico!!! Good to know they go to and love crap film just as we gringos do.
As they say, “aunche la mona se viste de seda…mona se queda.”
(Although the monkey dresses in silk, it’s STILL a monkey.)
es AUNQUE no aunche…
saludos…
yes we love the commercial films, music, books… I meant everything
Really? Is this so shocking, boys?!? Here’s a newsflash regarding New Moon – teenage girls will go see a movie 8 times if they love it, ergo, they have a greater purchase power than teenage boys.
Perhaps if more women were running studios, there would be more films that cater to a female demographic. Here’s the evidence:
Mamma Mia! and The Devil Wears Prada were championed by female movie executives and producers. According to Meryl Streep (the most Oscar- nominated actor in film history, and a woman), “Donna Langley (president of production) was our champion at Universal for ‘Mamma Mia!’ Nobody wanted to make that,” says Streep. “The smart guys banked on ‘Hellboy’ to carry them throughout the year. The ‘Mamma Mia!’ wagon is pulling all those movies that didn’t have any problem getting made. Our budget would have fit in the props budget of ‘Hellboy.’ ”
And what do the “smart” male execs say when films like Mamma Mia!, The Devil Wears Prada, Sex & the City, and let’s go all the way back to Fried Green Tomatoes and A League of the their Own (the highest grossing baseball movie) dominate the box office? “It’s a fluke! It really doesn’t mean anything.”
So, if these films make money, and let’s face it, they do, and $$$$ is the bottom line – WHY AREN’T MORE OF THESE FILMS GETTING MADE!?!? Hmmm – could it possibly be that Hollywood is run by insecure misogynists who feel threatened and emasculated by powerful women?
And here are some more stats – according to Dr. Martha Lauzen’s study, The Celluloid Ceiling:
90% of TV shows are directed by men
91% of the top 250 domestic grossing films are directed by men
This is pathetic and unconscionable.
Dr. Lauzen’s data is conclusive: “In Hollywood there’s this perception that films made by women do not earn as much as films made by men, and that actually is not true. We have done the statistical analysis on box office grosses, comparing films that had women behind the scenes with others. The notion that films made by women don’t earn as much just doesn’t hold up.”
There is NO EXCUSE. And please spare the bullshit excuse that there’s a paucity of talented female directors out there. Really? Kathryn Bigelow kicks all your whiny asses. Enough is enough.
i love this part of what you wrote ‘could it be possible that Hollywood is run by insecure misogynists who feel threatened and emasculated by powerful women?’
this was confirmed when catherine hardwicke was yanked off the twilight gravey train.
I know I contributed to the Australian amount, I have already scene it 4 times and I have plans to go again tomorrow
I loved it, I am so happy it has done so well. I can finally justify to my family and friends my obsession and that the Twilight series is loved all over the world!
Congratulations to Kristen, Robert and Taylor, great job and thank you for keeping it real.
Happiness and good health to the 3 of you, enjoy your time off
Twibots!
I think I’m going to be sick…
wow! congrats are def in order for the wonderful cast <3
CONGRATS NEW MOON CAST!
lol
I contributed to the U.K’s amazing, 4.6 million! cause i loved new moon, im from Northern Ireland and ive seen it twice, and i plan to see it again! it was amazing, the quality was far better than the first one. Chris White did an exceptional job, a lot better than Catherine Hardwick’s documentary styled Twilight movie. being a teenage girl, i love the books and i bought Twilight because of that, however Hardwicks sucked and White’s directing was absolutly unbelievable! he like made the actors better, Kristen Rob and Taylor were actually unbelievable, they didn’t seem amateur they seemed comfortable, and gave a believeable performance. overall new moon was far better than twilight was. the script was better (none of that stupid ad-lipping crap ’spider monkey’ what the hell) the directing like i said was beyond words, and the acting was amazing! well done to all involoved they should be proud. and it has to be said Taylor and Rob, are HOT! Kristen i beautiful, she suits brown eyes
UK ftw!!!!!!! I went to see it on opening night! Loved it!!!! And im going to see it again on friday, with people who i’ve insisted they see it
wooooooooooo go englanddd and newmooooon
Thanks Enough is Enough. You just posted everything I’ve also been saying. Bravo! Not to mention Hollywood was once a domain considered to be jobs for women…
I have seen it for 4 times in Holland!! Soo guess what there are only 16 million people here..!!
Good job New Moon cast!!
LOVE IT.. cannot wait for Eclipse!!
Its trully amazing. I have never seen a less attractive group of females. Now I know what girls must feel about Star Trek fans.
It’s a wonderful movie, and not just teenage girls watch it, the movie was packed with people interested in it. Men, women, little kids. No need to hate.
According to the latest demographics released by the theatres:
80% of movie patrons for NM were women.
This is not a movie that appeals to men, but that’s okay. It doesn’t have to.
I think that the New Moon movie was better than the Twilight movie. The special effects were less cheesy this time around, too.