"Twilight: New Moon" destroyed the rest of the box office to the tune of $140m
Each week, the Comedy Examiner gives you a rundown on how things-- particularly comedies-- are doing at the box office. This weekend, though, things-- particularly comedies-- were totally irrelevant in the wake of the release of "Twilight: New Moon", which racked up an astounding total for the weekend. Read on for the figures, my gentle Examiner readers...
Earlier this weekend, we provided you with a head's-up on "Twilight: New Moon" pulling down an amazing $72.7 million on Friday, and now we've got the total for the weekend: $140 million.
With numbers like that, it's not hard to believe that the rest of the movies in release all had a big, sloppy bite taken out of their totals.
Let's take a look at the top ten and see what sort of damage "Twilight" hath wrought:
1. "The Twilight Saga: New Moon," $140.7 million
2. "The Blind Side," $34.5 million
3. "2012," $26 million, $108.2 million to date.
4. "Planet 51," $12.6 million
??5. "Disney's A Christmas Carol," $12.2 million, $79 million to date.
6. "Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire," $11 million, $21.4 million to date.??
7. "The Men Who Stare at Goats," $2.7 million, $27.6 million to date.?
8. "Couples Retreat," $1.9 million, $105 million to date.
9. "The Fourth Kind," $1.7 million, $23 million to date.
10. "Law Abiding Citizen," $1.6 million, $70 million to date.
As you can see from the numbers above-- helpfully listed out by our friends over at HitFix, the awesome entertainment site-- "Twilight: New Moon" destroyed all newcomers and top ten veterans as it came into theaters. The next highest grossing film was Sandra Bullock's "The Blind Side" with about $35, a fraction of what "Twilight: New Moon" did over the three-day period.
In other news, "2012" held on a bit with $26 million-- a large dropoff from its huge opening last weekend. Let's see what HitFix has to say about that film's drop:
Coming in third with an almost 60% drop was "2012" which grossed another $26.5 million for a new 10 day cume of $108.2 million. The Roland Emmerich disaster flick looks like it will top out a little over $200 million in the U.S. when all is said in done. Lucikly for Sony, it's playing much better overseas.
Word, Hitfix: Word. A 60% drop is pretty hefty, but totall reasonable for a film that's clearly marketed on the strength of its special-effects alone (it'll be interesting, by the way, to see what sort of staying power "Twilight: New Moon" has when it gets to the end of next weekend). The only other new release, "Planet 51"-- a family comedy about aliens and spacemen and blah, blah, blah-- came in fourth with a disappointing $12.6 million.
As for the rest of the top ten, you can see it yourself above. Stay tuned to the Comedy Examiner's Office for more box office reports in the future, as well as some mid-week updates on how "Twilight" seems to be doing against the rest of the films in the top ten. We'll be keeping an eye on it all for you, here at the Comedy Examiner's Office.
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