Confirmed: the French will see 'The Twilight Saga: New Moon' before USA does

June 29, 2:23 PMTwilight ExaminerAmanda Bell

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A rep from Summit Entertainment has confirmed that The Twilight Saga: New Moon will be released in France on November 18th, 2009.

Speculation that the film would be released earlier in France than in the United States began a few days ago, and I waited to bring you the information until receiving confirmation as to its truth.

BuddyTV caught wind of the story saying:

A curious detail was revealed when the film's trailer hit theaters in France recently.  It doesn't say it'll open on that date, but instead, a full two days earlier--November 18.

The HD Room offered its interpretation as to why the release would be scattered like this, saying:

A quick glance at a calendar shows November 20 is a Friday, the natural choice for a new theatrical bow. That would make the 18th a Wednesday and introduce an interesting theory.

A few months before Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen was set to debut on Friday, June 26, Paramount moved up the release date by two days to take advantage of the huge momentum building into the release and two additional days at the box office for the extended opening weekend. Not long after Paramount made that move, Warner Bros. Pictures did the same with Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by moving it from July 17 to 15.

As the HD Room explains, there are advantages in the box office statistical world to having an extended opening weekend, and, since we want The Twilight Saga: New Moon to be the biggest film of the year, it is good for us too!

Below is the French trailer that shows the release date.

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