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Friday Box Office: New Moon, New Record

Written by Kyle Buchanan | 21 Nov 2009, 12:00 PM | 4 comments

lautner-tree.JPGThe Dark Knight may have had a lot of things going for it, but it didn’t have Taylor Lautner’s abs. Aided by a cuh-cuh-crazy gross from midnight shows on Thursday, The Twilight Saga: New Moon absolutely decimated the previous opening day record of $67.2 million set by The Dark Knight, banking $72.7 million from less screens and less theaters. Can it break Knight’s all-time opening weekend record, $158.4 million? To be continued…

Full figures, after the jump:

THE TWILIGHT SAGA: NEW MOON: $72,700,000 (new)
THE BLIND SIDE: $10,920,000 (new)
2012: $8,100,000 ($89,821,000)
PRECIOUS: BASED ON THE NOVEL “PUSH” BY SAPPHIRE: $3,600,000 ($13,996,000)
PLANET 51: $3,150,000 (new)
A CHRISTMAS CAROL: $3,000,000 ($70,561,000)
THE MEN WHO STARE AT GOATS: $860,000 ($25,711,000)
THE FOURTH KIND: $610,000 ($22,223,000)
COUPLES RETREAT: $555,000 ($103,604,000)
LAW ABIDING CITIZEN: $495,000 ($68,907,000)

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From Academy Screamer | Reply
Posted 21 Nov 2009, 12:25 PM

Sigh. You know you're getting older when you so don't give a shit about Vampire Movies, other than their grosses and the fact that every two-bit Producer in this town will be jumping on the fucking Vampire Express and sending you moronic Vampire Movie scripts.

From mattheww | Reply
Posted 22 Nov 2009, 12:39 PM

So then I guess FEWER people would avoid you if you were LESS insufferable.

From John M | Reply
Posted 21 Nov 2009, 2:12 PM

This is gonna sound really anal, but it's a bugaboo of mine: it should read "fewer screens and fewer theaters." Less is a measure of degree. Fewer is a measure of quantity.

Example: I'd like to see fewer pictures of Taylor Lautner in the future.

From Kyle Buchanan | Reply
Posted 21 Nov 2009, 2:47 PM

No, you're right. What is it about "fewer"? No one likes using it. The word is in desperate need of a lobbyist.

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By the Numbers: weekend takes every Monday
Avatar 20th C Fox
$34.9M
$554.9M
Legion Sony
$17.5M
$18.7M
Book Of Eli Warner
$15.7M
$62.0M
Tooth Fairy 20th C Fox
$14.0M
$14.6M
Lovely Bones Paramount
$8.4M
$31.7M
Sherlock Holmes Warner
$6.6M
$191.5M
Alvin: The Squeakquel 20th C Fox
$6.4M
$20.4M
Extraordinary Measures CBS
$6.0M
$6.0M
It's Complicated Universal
$5.8M
$98.7M
Spy Next Door Lionsgate
$4.5M
$18.8M
Data courtesy of Rentrak