ardathbey

This

ardathbey

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/forums/...44e746214cc94d
Now that the TDK/Twilight haters have so little to hold on to they are hoping for Biggest Fri to Sat drop off and......wait for it.....

IF THE TDK BO DISCUSSION THREAD HAD MORE PAGES THAN NM.

Oy

Supermallet

I think the point was that some people do. Note that I am not arguing this, because I haven't asked enough people to see if they think it's truly great writing or the literary equivalent of a ham sandwich.

But you saw a bunch of people bashing Paul Blart: Mall Cop. It's the internet, if people can complain, they will. Personally, from what I've read of the books and seen of the films, I think it's trash. I'm not bashing it because it exists, I'm bashing it because of Meyers awful writing and the terrible acting in the movies. I think those are completely valid criticisms.

tylergfoster

Maybe nobody thinks the Twilight series is William Shakespeare, but there are definitely lots and lots of people who take it seriously and don't think of it just as comfort food or a trashy romance novel. I mean, a passing level of interest like that doesn't earn a film $26m in midnight shows.

Rypro 525

Ive heard from other people on another board (mostly high schoolers), that some girls actually changed their myspace/facebook page to have the last name of Cullen

Brack

So lots and lots of people take Transformers 2 seriously? Is this the argument we're going with here.

Brack

Like I said, if you don't like something based on specifics, like you've suggested, that's perfectly valid. But this is not the typical bashing. It's people poo pooing because it's popular. And since you haven't seen New Moon, but suggested it's crap, it doesn't really gel well with your argument. I'm sorry if I don't lump in one piece of writing or one movie and write off everything that comes after, because that would make me a hypocrite.

Brack

You still talk to high schoolers? like, OMGTFBBQ! (I'm just kidding here)

Rypro 525

lol, blame the board, not me. (its a heavy metal board, but i'd say 60% of the posters are still in high school)

Patman

I can't see this film having serious legs after hearing "That sucked" from many in the audience as NM ended. Me, I thought it was the equivalent of sitting down and watching molasses try to roll itself uphill.

tylergfoster

I think Michael Bay takes it seriously. And while I don't think you get the same level of devotion, most of the fans I've met seem to think Transformers is legitimately cool, not like B-movie entertaining.

Wazootyman

Might that have just been people trying to be "original?"

Supermallet

I've seen far more of New Moon than I would like, between the Comic Con panel and actually showing it at my theater and doing QC checks.

coli

It doesn't bother me anymore that the crap Hollywood puts out does well at the box office. I am older now and am really not the target market for these movies, so I don't know what appeals to teenagers today.

But I will say thank god I grew up when blockbusters were movies like Star Wars, Back to the Future, Raiders of the Lost Ark, and Ghostbusters.

Gunde

No they don't. Not like these Twilight novels/film. NOT. AT. ALL!

Indy Jones Fan

Hmm, at the advanced screening I attended everyone was leaving and saying how much they liked it and were going to see again this weekend. I thought it was just ok but of course my 17 y/o daughter loved it.

Blu Man

I would rather have seen Transformers 2 beat The Dark Knight's one day record then this pile of shit. But I doubt it will even get close to The Dark Knight's overall gross.

Gizmo

Gonna see it tonight!!!

Glad to see it broke TDKd records. That movie sucked!

islandclaws

Nikki Finke has this morning's scoop...

BREAKING NEWS! SATURDAY 8:20AM UPDATE: "The night definitely belongs to Twilight." This is what a Hollywood insider told me early this morning after NEW MOON's late Friday night numbers came in. Summit Entertainment is now saying it debuted to $72.7 million from 4,024 North American theaters. This shatters both previous All-Time Friday and Single Day records of $67 million set by 2008's The Dark Knight. So Batman was beaten by the Twilight sequel's vampires and werewolves which won't sit well with the superhero-loyal moviegoing community. But Stephenie Meyer's "Twilight Saga" novels -- New Moon is the second in the series -- are now proving as much of a phenomenon as comic books for source material at the box office. Friday's total included New Moon's $26.27M in 12:01AM screenings from 3,514 theaters. That set a new midnight opening record, smashing The Dark Knight's $18.4M set on July 18, 2008, and Harry Potter And The Half Blood Prince's $22.2M set on July 15, 2009.

My insiders are tracking New Moon for a massive $125M weekend depending on how big a drop there is between Friday's records and Saturday's results. I hear the pic logged an "A-" CinemaScore which should mitigate. But that number won't break the all-time opening weekend record set by The Dark Knight of $158.4M in 2008 or by Spider-Man 3 of $151.M in 2007 or Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest of $135.6M in 2006. But it should surpass Shrek The Third's 4th place finish of $121.6M in 2007. But all three of those movies were released in the summer, unlike New Moon which should easily score the biggest Non-Summer Friday-Saturday-Sunday (3-Day) Weekend opening ever. (Note that none of these numbers have been adjusted for inflation or higher ticket costs or theater counts.) Amazing, especially since Hollywood thought New Moon might, repeat might, do Iron Man numbers of around $100M. New Moon also smashed the $36M earned by Twilight on its first Friday exactly a year ago. (Thursday night, Summit re-issued Twilight in 2,057 theaters and took in $1.3M.) Twilight’s opening weekend total was $69.7M.

superdeluxe

This pile of shit destroyed TDK's opening day by 5 million

LickTheABCs

That shit is redonkulous.

DonnachaOne

I'm sure most of you aren't really that bothered. Let the girls have their fun.

The Antipodean

I don't really care whether this beats dark knight, or how popular it is -- I can see the appeal for 13-year-old girls. What gets me is the 40-year-old WOMEN who are into it, i find that vaguely embarassing. Then again they might say the same about me and Star Trek I guess. It's always funny to see what movies are "approved" by the posters on the net and what aren't.

Hokeyboy

Yeah I don't know why people get up in arms about TWILIGHT. It's sissy junior high nonsense. Leave it be. Doesn't change the fact that there's a NEW ALMODOVAR MOVIE!

Matthew Chmiel

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Rank* Title (Click to view chart) Friday 11/20 (Estimates) Saturday 11/21 Sunday 11/22 Monday 11/23 1 THE TWILIGHT SAGA: NEW MOON Summit Entertainment 4,024 $72,700,000 -- / $18,067 <nobr>$72,700,000 / 1</nobr> N/A N/A N/A 2 THE BLIND SIDE Warner Bros. 3,110 $10,920,000 -- / $3,511 <nobr>$10,920,000 / 1</nobr> N/A N/A N/A 3 2012 Sony / Columbia 3,408 $8,100,000 +155.2% / $2,377 <nobr>$89,821,000 / 8</nobr> N/A N/A N/A 4 PRECIOUS: BASED ON THE NOVEL "PUSH" BY SAPPHIRE Lionsgate 629 $3,600,000 +916.8% / $5,723 <nobr>$13,996,000 / 15</nobr> N/A N/A N/A 5 PLANET 51 Sony / Columbia 3,035 $3,150,000 -- / $1,038 <nobr>$3,150,000 / 1</nobr> N/A N/A N/A 6 A CHRISTMAS CAROL (2009) Buena Vista 3,578 $3,000,000 +189.1% / $838 <nobr>$70,561,000 / 15</nobr> N/A N/A N/A 7 THE MEN WHO STARE AT GOATS Overture Films 2,056 $860,000 +108% / $418 <nobr>$25,711,000 / 15</nobr> N/A N/A N/A 8 THE FOURTH KIND Universal 1,648 $610,000 +141.4% / $370 <nobr>$22,223,000 / 15</nobr> N/A N/A N/A 9 COUPLES RETREAT Universal 1,712 $555,000 +160.2% / $324 <nobr>$103,604,000 / 43</nobr> N/A N/A N/A 10 LAW ABIDING CITIZEN Overture Films 1,327 $495,000 +83.4% / $373 <nobr>$68,907,000 / 36</nobr> N/A N/A N/A 11 PARANORMAL ACTIVITY Paramount 1,902 $490,000 +120.8% / $258 <nobr>$105,172,000 / 57</nobr> N/A N/A N/A 12 MICHAEL JACKSON'S THIS IS IT Sony / Columbia 1,640 $430,000 +25.3% / $262 <nobr>$69,071,000 / 24</nobr> N/A N/A N/A 13 PIRATE RADIO Focus Features 883 $415,000 +129.9% / $470 <nobr>$4,138,000 / 8</nobr> N/A N/A N/A - - N/A N/A N/A N/A
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