How High Will It Go? 'Twilight' Tops 'Sex and the City' Midnight Screenings
First midnight... Now the weekend...
Variety reports Twilight took in more than $7 million during last night's midnight screenings, a number that clobbers the $2.5 million New Line's Sex and the City took in earlier this year, but still nowhere near The Dark Knight's $18.4 million box-office record. Early tracking from Fantasy Moguls for Twilight had it hitting a potential $64.3 million while early projections had it coming in at a more modest $50 million range. Our very own Box-Office Oracle projected a $54.7 million three-day take.
Sex and the City ultimately managed a strong $57 million opening back in May but with the early number to pad its weekend tally I don't see why Twilight can't edge closer to that $60+ million number.
Fandango reports Twilight is selling five tickets per second, as of early Friday morning making it the company's fastest-selling film since The Dark Knight. Twilight sites at the #3 spot on Fandango's list of Top Advance Ticket-Sellers of all-time. Over at MovieTickets.com the film ranked #14 as of yesterday on their Top-15 Presellers of All-Time.
I guess the success of the film depends on fan approval and whether or not they want to go back again over the course of the weekend. I was surprised at a couple of comments on my review of the film when a few people reported back saying:
Brandi: "i was extremely disappointed. it was coated with cheese. and it was funny. the book written by stephanie meyers was not meant for comedy."
Caitlin: "I love the Twilight book series yet this movie was a disaster!!!"
Rush: "The acting was HORRIBLE, the time setting was off and unrealistic, they left out a lot of details, where events took place in the book they were way off in the movie… Grade: F"
Will this be the agreed upon feeling by all Twilight fans? Vicki Martinez added a comment in another section of RopeofSilicon saying she took her kids and loved the film, "Everyone will love this movie! It is a little scary how I am pushing fifty years old but also have that insane obsession with Rob Pattinson. He is perfect and deserves a nomination for his acting skills." For some reason I think Vicki takes it a little farther than most will.
Stay tuned, I will be back late tonight with early Friday estimates and a full weekend report on Sunday.
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hooray for the american public!
lol i argued to crazy little girls in my school that Twilight is going to beat The Dark Knight ….. i laughed in there faces and said the only way your going to get that movie to beat TDK , you would have to have everybody who has seen the dark knight movie… to become a fan of this book. HA yea right sorry but seeing vampires fall in love with humans isnt my taste at all.
I have to mention it, I love the books but I hate the film.
Was lucky (or unlucky) enough to see it the 20th, and I have to say I did not have that high expectation since I dislike most of the actors… I hated every minute. It would have been enough with just the bad (and in Rob's case ugly as hell) actors but they were not only ugly but could not act one bit and the movie had that plastic feeling over it wich did not fit the book one bit.
I do still love the book but I have to say that since Meyer actually liked this film I have lost some of my respect for her.
-Alma
I love the Twilight book series, but was very disapointed when I saw the movie… It seemed as though they pressed "fast-forward" through the book leaving out important details, and not following some of the simple ones! How hard could it have been?….. I do however hope they follow up, and make the sequels… Maybe with the next movie they can focus more on the actors, and not filling the holes with a ton of music….. .Only time will tell! Hopefully, Stephenie Meyer will continue the saga with a new set of books…. I'm keeping my fingers crossed!
You know, I loved the books too, but I found a lot of the details the movie skipped over to be largely irrelevant to telling the story–and that the changes the film made do not detract from the story. Let's face it, what works on a page does not necessarily work on film (take Lucas, for instance, who couldn't write decent dialogue for a woman even if he got hit over the head with an estrogen anvil). I loved the movie in its own right, knowing it could never be a 100% clone of the book. And there's nothing wrong with that.
I was peaved at the movie. :/ I liked the some what realisticness of some of the scenes, but all together didn't like it. I hated the fact that the movie was only an hour long. People! That's NEVER enough time to cover a book that's suppose to be like 3 months of time going by! You can't posibly cram all the details of the book, another reason it was horrid.
I loved the books, but not Braking Dawn. WAY to much info.
I feeling optamistic about New Moon though. Much bigger buget, so I really hope it will be 3 hours long. :D That would be awesome. People need to realize that a movie can't be batter then the book unless the book doesn't have much details. That, and it depends on the writer, of cource.