"Twilight" Dominates with $70.5 Million Opening

[RebelMan]

Source: Box Office Mojo
November 23, 2008


Summit Entertainment's Twilight, an adaptation of Stephenie Meyer's novel, dominated the box office earning an estimated $70.5 million from 3,419 theaters. The opening marks the fourth-biggest ever for the month of November, surpassing this month's earlier releases Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa ($63.1 million) and Quantum of Solace ($67.5 million), plus 2004's The Incredibles ($70.467 million), and trailing only the three "Harry Potter" movies that opened this month - "Chamber of Secrets" ($88.4 million), "Sorcerer's Stone" ($90.3 million) and "Goblet of Fire" ($102.7 million). Directed by Catherine Hardwicke from a script by Melissa Rosenberg, the love story between a teenage girl and a vampire averaged an impressive $20,636 per location. The film, starring Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Billy Burke, Peter Facinelli, Elizabeth Reaser, Cam Cigandet, Nikki Reed, Jackson Rathbone and Ashley Greene, was made for just $37 million.

Women accounted for three-quarters of the audience and 55 percent of viewers were under the age of 25, the studio said. With the strong opening of Twilight, Summit this morning officially announced the sequel, New Moon.

[FireBird]

Saw it tonight, I liked it. I never read any of the books, I'm not a book-person, but I was satisfied with it considering the budget it had.

The "normal" kids weren't so annoying as I thought they would be. I do know a couple of things about the story since my sister's read all the books twice (she's going for round 3 real soon) and I honestly believe the one who played Alice should have taken the role of Roselie; Ashley Greene is sooooooooooooo beautiful.

Tiny Spoiler (you never know who hasn't read/seen Twilight):
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That scene when Alice is tending to Bella and she gets Bella's blood on her hands, that second I was saying in my head "Yes! Put it in your mouth, baby. TASTE IT!"

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If anyone knows about the Arclight cinema's, that is THE place to go and see a film, it's worth the extra $2, but bring your own water cuz a bottle water is $4.25... I can currently get 2 gallons of petrol for that kind of money.

I give this movie 8.8/10