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'Twilight' - Summit Ent.
Summit Entertainment, the company responsible for the Twilight film, has just announced that Saturday's sales were, indeed, chart-topping. Over three million copies of the Twilight DVD were sold, and this propelled the DVD to the "Top Five Best First Day Releases in Two Years."
Welcomed in with Twilight DVD release parties across the nation, along with special surprise guest appearances at several of them by cast members of Twilight and The Twilight Saga: New Moon, the DVD's success comes as no surprise to many fans.
The guest appearances were as follows.
- Rachelle Lefevre, who plays "Victoria" in the series, surprised 2,500 people in Salt Lake City, Utah.
- Ashley Greene, actress portraying the role of "Alice Cullen" in the series, was greeted by 2,000 in Los Angeles, California.
- Twilight director Catherine Hardwicke came to Dallas, Texas, where 1,000 fans were waiting anxiously.
- Edi Gathegi, otherwise known as "Laurent" in the Twilight series was met with 700 fans in New York.
- Finally, Nikki Reed, "Rosalie" in Twilight, was welcomed by over 500 fans in Chicago, Illinois.
Other top five top sales include The Dark Knight, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, Transformers, and Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.
Summit Entertainment’s Co-Chairmen Rob Friedman and Patrick Wachsberger stated, “the Saturday release in conjunction with the groundbreaking retail events across the country have proven to be overwhelmingly successful which in turn benefited Twilight fans as well as our retail partners....”
“We are incredibly appreciative that Twilight fans came out to once again support this film at our midnight events across the nation,” said Steve Nickerson, Summit’s President of Home Entertainment. “With such a successful first day sales, it is apparent that our fans remain passionate about the Twilight saga and want to own a piece of the Edward and Bella story they have come to love. We look forward to the continued success for both the home entertainment and retail sales of this property as a whole."
The promise of success for the Twilight series was doubtless to the many Twilight fans around the nation and globe, and these record-breaking sales only go to prove that the Twilight series is, indeed, fan-driven.
Thanks: Simply Twilight
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Comments
Why would people have a twilight release party what are they going to do there that will make people want to wait for hours for a horrible movie based on a horrible book? This is completly stupid.
Well, at least a few of the places got to meet one of the characters. I guess that would be worth it to the die hards. I don't think it would be. I'm pretty sure a lot of the fans bought more than one copy.
Funny how the industry is totally taking advantage of the fans. I bet most of these fans will look back and be embarrassed by all of this and how they acted about it. JMHO.
Whether or not your a fan of the movie the sales are guite impressive and isnt it the fans choice to make the decision to wait in a line or buy more than one copy. Thats why they are the FAN and have every right to do so.
Wow! "Top Five Best First Day Releases in Two Years." That's really broadening the category. Top 5 first day releases IN TWO YEARS.
Trust me this TWILIGHTmania will be over soon. In fact don't expect it to sell more than 6 million copies (which is still alot but funny considering all of the other top 5 went on to sell nearly 13 million).
New Moon wont do nearly as well. Twilight shot itself in the foot the moment breaking dawn was made. now it is dieing a slow death.
I had a great time at a twilight release party with my daughter and her friends. The movie will not win any awards but the fans enjoyed it.
Haven't purchased the movie yet but intend to. It seems to be all the rave.
shut up warner some people actually liked breaking dawn.
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