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"New Moon" Fails to Beat "Dark Knight" for Best Opening WeekendPosted: November 22nd, 2009 by WorstPreviews.com Staff
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"Twilight" sequel "New Moon" grossed around $141 million this weekend, failing to break the record for best opening weekend of all time. The film bumped "Pirated of the Caribbean" ($136 million) to take third place after "The Dark Knight" ($158 million) and "Spider-Man 3" ($151 million). "New Moon" still holds the records for best midnight gross and best first day gross.
The film also performed well internationally, grabbing another $118.1 million, for a total worldwide debut of $258.8 million.
The amazing numbers helped make this the second-best weekend ever at the domestic box office in terms of overall ticket sales, trailing only the weekend that "The Dark Knight" opened.
Assisting the weekend's performance was Sandra Bullock's "The Blind Side," which did far better than expected by opening to an estimated $34.5 million. Even the badly-reviewed "Planet 51" debuted to $12.6 million.
In limited release, Nicolas Cage's "Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans" grossed only $257,267 from 27 theaters, for a mediocre per-screen average of $9,528. Meanwhile, Penelope Cruz's "Broken Embraces" opened in two locations for a per-screen average of $53,799, earning a total of $107,597.
Click here to read our "New Moon" review.
Check out the rest of the box office results
Source: Variety
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Cleveland Shaquisition writes:
on November 22nd, 2009 at 7:16:49 PM
Couldn't beat the Dark Knight? Well, times are tough. Parents just can't dish out money to their 12 year old daughters like they used to. Damn this recession.
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Ranger writes:
on November 22nd, 2009 at 7:23:59 PM
The only way Twilight could beat TDK would be to infect it with AIDS.
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gimple writes:
on November 22nd, 2009 at 7:24:48 PM
"Pirated of the Caribbean" ?
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Ranger writes:
on November 22nd, 2009 at 7:32:00 PM
dandythelion writes - (re: Twilight's opening weekend $'s 'destroying' TDK's opening weekend ticket sales):
"no surprise.
yes please..go kill youselves over this Dark Knight fans.. please do me a favor."
Wrong... yet again dandy. So suck on it!
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Gates writes:
on November 22nd, 2009 at 7:43:04 PM
"In limited release, Nicolas Cage's "Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans" grossed only $257,267 from 27 theaters"
This should have been rephrased in this article as. "Cage has moved into an apartment with Carl Weathers and Wesely Snipes this weekend."
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CCBlev writes:
on November 22nd, 2009 at 8:13:33 PM
@gates,
Dont forget Van Damme now has a roomate :)
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vaodsi writes:
on November 22nd, 2009 at 8:13:56 PM
it's not the recession... it's just that their are only so many junior high girls in the world. no herterosexual male is going to see this... unless their girlfriend threatened to castrate them if they did not see it with them... even then.....
a. Dump the girlfriend
b. Get castrated
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TheHerpesOnRangersDick writes:
on November 22nd, 2009 at 8:22:34 PM
it's only gonna hold the record until Avatar comes out anyway
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vaodsi writes:
on November 22nd, 2009 at 8:26:37 PM
naw.. as much as i think avatar is actually gonna be cool and worth seeing.. it is not going to be the next dark knight or titanic.... but i hope i'm wrong
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fuller45 writes:
on November 22nd, 2009 at 8:31:31 PM
You're a fag if you saw this movie.
/closecase
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nope.com writes:
on November 22nd, 2009 at 8:35:39 PM
Not surprising as all the fat tweens and unattractive cat owning whores went on Friday.. which is why all the good looking people stayed indoors for once
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Cd_Smith0 writes:
on November 22nd, 2009 at 8:47:11 PM
My Mom, GF, and Sister are dragging me to this thursday.....god help me.
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LegacyAR writes:
on November 22nd, 2009 at 8:49:53 PM
It start to die down pretty soon. Everyone that wanted to see that has seen it by now.
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holtlt writes:
on November 22nd, 2009 at 9:11:11 PM
guess the first day half of the nation went to see it and realized its a piece of garbage and tried to convince the rest not to see it
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TH3D4RKKN1GH7 writes:
on November 22nd, 2009 at 9:34:42 PM
"Not surprising as all the fat tweens and unattractive cat owning whores went on Friday.. which is why all the good looking people stayed indoors for once" -nope.com
LMFAO!!!! Oh man that is too true.
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AshTrey writes:
on November 22nd, 2009 at 9:52:49 PM
THANK GOD! NOW THIS VAMP SHIT COULD HOPEFULLY END SOON
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WV-Films writes:
on November 22nd, 2009 at 9:55:35 PM
sigh.........thank god. That would have been scary.
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TeemSelami writes:
on November 22nd, 2009 at 10:10:50 PM
batman vs vampires faggots and pussy fight scenes lose to the caped crusader
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mustardayonnaise writes:
on November 22nd, 2009 at 11:25:04 PM
"New Moon Fails to Beat Dark Knight for Best Opening Weekend". <<< headline could just as well read "New Moon Fails to be a Good Movie unlike Dark Knight"
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The Skippy Spartan writes:
on November 22nd, 2009 at 11:28:52 PM
Good......serves them right for having sparkling vampires that also moonlight as emos!!
@Ranger
We did it!
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synthetic1985 writes:
on November 23rd, 2009 at 12:25:53 AM
there's still a third film coming...and it probably won't even stop there...but i guess that's just how it goes in hollywood
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Horsemoney5 writes:
on November 23rd, 2009 at 12:34:09 AM
Thank God!
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lost_addict writes:
on November 23rd, 2009 at 12:38:31 AM
what would jigsaw do to the 'twilight' characters?
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Hunter9794 writes:
on November 23rd, 2009 at 2:02:37 AM
Because The Dark Knight was obviously aimed at all demographics, not just nerdy teenage boys. Leave it to the fanboys to hop on the "Twilight haters" bandwagon. You officially are rebelious teenage girls. Congrats.
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Ranger writes:
on November 23rd, 2009 at 2:59:02 AM
Thx. And your Mother is a whore.
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takai writes:
on November 23rd, 2009 at 3:32:50 AM
Give whatever reasons you want, but a garbage film like Spider Man 3 was only 7 mil. away from your holy grail. Never forget that.
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Sonic writes:
on November 23rd, 2009 at 6:39:41 AM
TDK Rules!!!
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Peter Parker writes:
on November 23rd, 2009 at 8:33:22 AM
So, first Oprah announces the end of the show and now New Moon falls short of another record.
What a tough end of week this was for dandythelion, uh?
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Dre-EL writes:
on November 23rd, 2009 at 9:36:48 AM
"Twilight" sequel "New Moon" grossed around $141 million this weekend, failing to break the record for best opening weekend of all time.
I shouldnt be so surprised, I hoped it would get that far but it came way too close to TDK.
As a result I have now lost a bet with my GF thus now I have to take her to see this flic.
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AzSol writes:
on November 23rd, 2009 at 10:35:45 AM
I'm so glad not to be a twi-tard, being at the theater with all those emo kids would suck hard.
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Ranger writes:
on November 23rd, 2009 at 6:01:36 PM
I gather some of those emo twi-tards do suck pretty hard.
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nwfluigi619 writes:
on November 23rd, 2009 at 7:47:00 PM
No way this crap of a movie could beat TDK.
TDK = Best Movie Ever
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barley_cat writes:
on November 24th, 2009 at 9:07:31 AM
You know, i'm probably setting myself up for a flow of hate here, but i'm going to say that i loved the film. Of course i only liked it because i have read all the books, and compared to Twilight, i feel this is the best book-film adaptation i have ever seen, the acting, the sets, even the emotions were just as they were portayed in the book.
However, as a film on its own, it did suck as a sequel to the pile of crap that ws Twilight. If i hadn't have read the books, 1 i wouldn't have watched it, and 2, i wouldn't have follwed the storyline! There are a lot of important parts missed out thinking back, and when i watched it i think the only reason i did not realise this was because i knew them anyway.
What is it everyone doesn't like? The storyline? Or the film itself, because i strongly feel that the film, the techniques and the acting was extremely well done!
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Peter Parker writes:
on November 24th, 2009 at 12:51:20 PM
@ barley_cat:
The hate here isn't unjustified. For some reasons, fell free to check out the link bellow. Good article. Should be enough to give you a different perspective.
http://otahyoni.livejournal.com/130432.html
Cheers.
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Peter Parker writes:
on November 24th, 2009 at 12:51:51 PM
* "feel free..."
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barley_cat writes:
on November 27th, 2009 at 8:30:25 AM
Ok Peter Parker, Fair play, Thats a good review, So are we agreeing on the fact that it's not the film thats bad, but the book it was reffering to?
I'm not a extreme twilight fan btw, i just found it an enjoying read.. i understand why some people don't like it though.
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