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"New Moon" snaps "Dark Knight" box-office record with $72.7 million opening day
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| 20 NOVEMBER 2009
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Posted on 11/21/2009 10:19:57 AM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist
The Twilight Saga: New Moon grossed $72.7 million on Friday, according to estimates from Summit Entertainment, shattering The Dark Knights previous opening-day record of $62.2 million. (The figure includes the $26.3 million New Moon banked from midnight screenings, also a box office record.) The astronomic figure puts Bella, Edward, and Jacob on a clear path to the biggest opening weekend ever, all the more impressive considering New Moon is opening in 342 fewer theaters than The Dark Knight did last year.
(Excerpt) Read more at hollywoodinsider.ew.com ...
TOPICS: Business/Economy; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: boxoffice; darkknight; hollywood; moviereview; newmoon
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
My favorite Twilight-related quote: “Real vampires don't sparkle; they explode into dust.”
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posted on
11/21/2009 10:23:52 AM PST
by
LongElegantLegs
(Raise the fanged and warlike mistress, stern, impassive, weaponed mistress...)
To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
What’s this about? This link doesn’t give any background, and all the responses seem to be from impressionable youngsters...
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posted on
11/21/2009 10:25:11 AM PST
by
bcsco
(Hey, GOP: The American Indians found out what happens when you don't control immigration...)
To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
New Moon ? What say you, Eric Cartman ?
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posted on
11/21/2009 10:25:31 AM PST
by
fieldmarshaldj
(~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps !"~~)
To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
why anyone would make a movie not aimed at young teens is beyond me. it’s like printing money.
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posted on
11/21/2009 10:27:27 AM PST
by
thefactor
(yes, as a matter of fact, i DID only read the excerpt)
To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
The Twilight Saga: New Moon grossed $72.7 million on Friday, according to estimates from Summit Entertainment, shattering The Dark Knights previous opening-day record of $62.2 million.
As teenage boys and men increasingly move off into the gaming world, it's clear that Hollywood's biggest customer base is teenage girls and young women. Look for a lot more female fantasy movies involving vampires, werewolves, unicorns and other mythical creatures along with vapid pretty-boys for girls to swoon over LOL.
To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
Better to give to the poor than to make Hollywood liberals richer.
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posted on
11/21/2009 10:38:32 AM PST
by
rbosque
(10 year Freeper!)
To: bcsco
That’s the about the depth of Entertainment Weekly and its readers.
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posted on
11/21/2009 10:39:19 AM PST
by
RabidBartender
(I will work harder, Napoleon is always right.)
To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
I can confirm this.
Went to the movies last night and we were definitely in the “Twilight Zone”. Never saw the theater so crowded or the parking lot so packed.
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posted on
11/21/2009 10:44:20 AM PST
by
DannyTN
To: AnotherUnixGeek
So that’s what it contains. Huh. I have a distant cousin/friend on Facebook, who wrote she took her daughter and thought it was “AWESOME”. Oh, well.
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posted on
11/21/2009 10:45:10 AM PST
by
bcsco
(Hey, GOP: The American Indians found out what happens when you don't control immigration...)
To: Aaron0617
Don't know much about this series, quick question I've wanted to know from watching the previews. Why are vampires and werewolves walking around in broad daylight?
To: bcsco
"Whats this about?"It's about two hours too long.
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posted on
11/21/2009 10:56:46 AM PST
by
Fabozz
To: Fabozz
It's about two hours too long.HA!
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posted on
11/21/2009 11:02:17 AM PST
by
bcsco
(Hey, GOP: The American Indians found out what happens when you don't control immigration...)
To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
To: Aaron0617
Stephanie Meyer has created her own mythos regarding vampires. One is that they can wander about in daylight but it is very obvious something is different about them (they sparkle)
The books are OK from what I have listened to (wife reads them as audio) kind of gothic horror meets trashy romance meets teen appropriate reading...
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posted on
11/21/2009 11:14:49 AM PST
by
BudgieRamone
(liberalism is another word for sin of sloth--let the gubmint do it all for you!)
To: thefactor
Twilight, like its spiritual forebear Titanic, has hit the sweet spot: It appeals to unsophisticated tween girls, young women wishing they were unsophisticated tween girls, and hausfraus advancing into middle age.
Who can tell why it is so popular? The standard reading is that the protagonist, Bella, is a tabula rasa onto which the reader can project herself. The vampire is typically the avatar of a rape fantasy, although in this case it's a very chaste, sparkly rape fantasy. There is a minority interpretation, however, in which Bella is a passive-aggressive emotional manipulator and Edward is her victim. That makes it kind of an empowerment/femdom fantasy. With sparkles.
I have no idea how to interpret Edward chewing their baby out of Bella's uterus, or the werewolf Jacob instantly falling in love with the infant and declaring his intention to marry her. Body horror and medieval customs of royal betrothal as actual love matches? Spoilers in this paragraph, btw.
To: Caesar Soze
“I have no idea how to interpret Edward chewing their baby out of Bella’s uterus, or the werewolf Jacob instantly falling in love with the infant and declaring his intention to marry her.”
Tell me you’re joking.
Freegards
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posted on
11/21/2009 11:55:16 AM PST
by
Ransomed
(Son of Ransomed Says Keep the Faith!)
To: Caesar Soze
yeah thanks for the spoiler alert after i read it.
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posted on
11/21/2009 12:12:28 PM PST
by
thefactor
(yes, as a matter of fact, i DID only read the excerpt)
To: Aaron0617
Since Coppertone came out with SPF 10,000.
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posted on
11/21/2009 12:17:17 PM PST
by
Erasmus
(Sid's oxymorons: Socialist Realism.)
To: Caesar Soze
I’m so glad we’re into Harry Potter instead.
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posted on
11/21/2009 12:22:13 PM PST
by
netmilsmom
(Psalm 109:8 - Let his days be few; and let another take his office)
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