Adam Tyner

What makes you say that? Only one movie in the top 10 has a higher per-screen average.

Rypro 525

and its only on 111 screens as well

TomOpus

Saw "2012" yesterday and the theater was pretty full. I was a tad surprised.

cranberries fan

I am pissed that these mindless-unfunny-films (Old Dogs,Planet 51) are cleaning house and the wonderful and very fantastic Mr.Fox is not getting better numbers.

I am with you all the way this is one is sure to be a classic (I am big Anderson fan).

The Bus

Ah --- that explains it. Didn't see the number of screens.

sherm42

Sorry all you Twilight haters. Say what you will about percentage drops, the numbers for New Moon are impressive for only 10 days in release.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091129/en_nm/us_boxoffice

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – "The Twilight Saga: New Moon" rose to the top of movie box office charts for the second straight week on Sunday with a three-day haul of $42.5 million on a record-breaking holiday weekend in North America, according to studio estimates.

Over the five-day U.S. Thanksgiving holiday, the vampire romance starring Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner took in $66 million, pushing its two-week total in theaters to $230.7 million in North America, said independent studio Summit Entertainment, which backed the movie.

Internationally, the high-profile sequel to last year's monster hit "Twilight," based on the best-selling novels by Stephenie Meyer, has taken in $243 million for a worldwide total just under $475 million in two weeks.

Richard Fay, president of domestic distribution for Summit, said the movie continued to do strong repeat business from mostly teenage girls who are fans of the movies and books, and it was able to expand its audiences to include older women.

Total movie ticket sales for the five-day holiday period in North America reached a record $278 million, beating the old figure of $244 million set back in 2000 when "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" and "Unbreakable" were the two top films, according to sales tracker Hollywood.com Box-Office.

Coming in at No. 2, also for the second straight week, was Sandra Bullock football film "The Blind Side" with three-day sales of $40.1 million and a two-week total of $100.5 million. Disaster film "2012" rounded out the top three with $18 million in three days, boosting its three-week total to $139 million.

SEEING "BLIND"

"Blind Side," produced by Alcon Entertainment and released by Time Warner Inc.'s Warner Bros,, played well to all audiences. Bullock helped draw women, sports lured men and the feel-good tale about a woman played by Bullock who helps a homeless boy become a football hero attracted families.

"This is a movie that plays equally to both genders," said Andrew Kosove, co-chief executive of Alcon Entertainment. "A great deal of moviegoing is consensus driven (among families) and we were the consensus movie for the weekend."

Natural disaster flick "2012" also continued to score well. Internationally, its ticket sales now stand at $456 million, boosting its global haul to $595 million, said distributor Columbia Pictures, a unit of Sony Corp.

Among new movies, Disney comedy "Old Dogs" with John Travolta and Robin Williams was No. 4 in North America with $16.8 million on the weekend and $24 million for five days. Warner Bros' "Ninja Assassin" with Korean superstar Rain was No. 6 with $13.1 million and $21 million for the 3-day and 5-day periods, respectively.

Other noteworthy titles include Disney's "A Christmas Carol," which claimed the No. 5 spot with $16 million, pushing its North American cumulative ticket sales to $105 million.

Twentieth Century Fox expanded the release of its animated movie "Fantastic Mr. Fox," widely around the United States and it climbed to the No. 9 spot with $7 million on the weekend. Fox is a unit of News Corp

Ash Ketchum

Sorry, Mr. Cameron, but TWILIGHT NEW MOON is this generation's TITANIC, not AVATAR.

Dr. DVD

FWIW, I don't think Cameron intends for Avatar to be Titanic. More of something along the lines of The Abyss.

Brack

minus The Abyss' poor BO performance.

Supermallet

Yeah, I'm not getting a Titanic vibe off of this. And no matter how Avatar turns out, it will be better than New Moon. So there's always that.

Hokeyboy

New Moon won't make half of what Titanic made, and that's before adjusting for inflation.

Brack

If we're just talking domestic, I don't see it having too much trouble making $300m.

sherm42

Yes, and New Moon likely cost about 3/4 less to make than Titanic did.

BravesMG

Again, it amazes me how far out of their way people will go to hate Twilight. All I know is that it's target audience is one of the most satisfied groups I've ever seen and Summit did a great job marketing this to them.

Rypro 525

according to Boxofficemojo.com, New Moon cost about 50 mil give or take, not including marketing

Brack

probably even less than that, considering those were 1997 dollars.

Hokeyboy

If the film faces continued week-to-week drops, it could conceivably not make it to the $300 million. Doesn't change the fact that the film is a runaway success though. It just doesn't have the cross-demographic penetration (and repeat-viewing legs) that Titanic had. No film, really, has come close except for maybe TDK.

Brack

Not the same thing as "won't." Given it's box office performance thus far, another $70m seems rather easy.

Drop

It'll probably just hit 300 million at this rate. And certainly not much higher. Humongous success either way.

I don't see what's so amazing. It's the internet, we're all here to hate on something one way or another. That doesn't make the Twilight saga any less entertaining to the people that like them. There are just so many better stories and vampire tales out there that it's disappointing that most of them don't get better exposure. But in the long run the amount of money any movie makes doesn't really affect me, so I don't really care. But it is fun to have these type of conversations.

Hokeyboy

Methinks you're taking too personally. Like I said, no matter what the film is still a runaway success. No amount of Internet fanboy bitching will ever change that.

Brack

Personally? How did you reach that conclusion? I just think being deterministic about box office is flawed, that's all.

RichC2

Don't think anyone is arguing its success. It's impressive and a full blown phenomenon.

Doesn't make the movies good.

sherm42

Exactly. Titanic cost about 200 million in 1997. New Moon costs 3/4 less to make, not counting for inflation.

RichC2

Actuals:

1 1 The Twilight Saga: New Moon Sum. $42,870,031 -70.0% 4,042 +18 $10,606 $230,947,696 $50 2
2 2 The Blind Side WB $40,111,364 +17.6% 3,140 +30 $12,774 $100,238,841 $29 2
3 3 2012 Sony $17,651,729 -33.2% 3,444 +36 $5,125 $138,451,427 $200 3
4 N Old Dogs BV $16,894,511 - 3,425 - $4,933 $24,228,546 $35 1
5 5 A Christmas Carol (2009) BV $15,758,273 +28.4% 3,013 -565 $5,230 $104,927,816 $200 4
6 N Ninja Assassin WB $13,316,158 - 2,503 - $5,320 $21,193,565 $40 1
7 4 Planet 51 Sony $10,218,641 -16.8% 3,035 - $3,367 $28,487,409 $70 2
8 6 Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire LGF $7,081,032 -34.9% 663 +34 $10,680 $32,433,482 $10 4
9 24 The Fantastic Mr. Fox Fox $6,965,267 +3,322.5% 2,033 +2,029 $3,426 $10,024,072 $40 3
10 N The Road W/Dim. $1,502,231 - 111 - $13,534 $1,977,453 - 1
11 7 The Men Who Stare at Goats Over. $1,501,837 -46.9% 1,119 -937 $1,342 $30,521,930 $25 4
12 16 The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day App. $1,301,197 +117.1% 373 +169 $3,488 $5,722,723 $8 5
13 12 Pirate Radio Focus $989,260 -32.3% 478 -405 $2,070 $6,830,855 $50 3
14 8 Couples Retreat Uni. $960,995 -50.5% 862 -850 $1,115 $106,700,205 $70 8
15 14 An Education SPC $911,388 +10.2% 265 -38 $3,439 $5,563,649 - -
16 10 Michael Jackson's This Is It Sony $828,976 -48.7% 576 -1,064 $1,439 $71,844,424 - 5
17 11 Law Abiding Citizen Over. $786,534 -51.0% 584 -743 $1,347 $71,505,530 $50 7
18 N The Princess and the Frog BV $786,190 - 2 - $393,095 $1,216,860 - 1


Boondock II is hanging in there.