The Stars of Twilight

The Twilight Saga: New Moon finished fourth in its fourth weekend, taking in an estimated $8M from 3635 locations with a per theater average of $2,201. These estimates include $2.4M Friday, $3.4M Saturday, and $2.2M Sunday. This increases the film's domestic cumulative total to $267.36M through its first 24 days of release and represents a 48.1% drop from last weekend. The film continues to dominate the 66 overseas territories in which it's playing, bringing in another $22.3 million from 9,163 theaters for a foreign total of $358.7M. This gives New Moon a worldwide cumulative total of $626.06M.

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Summit International’s New Moon stayed top overseas and soared past the $300m mark as an estimated $40.7m haul from 9,167 sites in 62 territories boosted the running total to $314.5m.

Weekend business was led by a $4.9m number one launch in South Korea from 450 screens that ranks as the fifth highest launch by a foreign title this year, according to unconfirmed data. The debut rises to $5.6m including Wednesday’s opening day.

The vampire saga has amassed $39.2m in the UK, more than $32m in France, more than $28m in Australia, and more than $25m in each of Italy and Spain.

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The Twilight Saga - New Moon remained in the top spot on the international chart with $82.38 million on 8,292 screens in 52 markets for a total of $251.33 million internationally and $482.28 million worldwide. This includes a number of new markets for the film, but most were of the smaller variety. It did place first in Germany with $16.95 million on 703 screens, but that includes previews. On the other hand, it bombed in Japan, opening in fifth place with just $792,000 on 197 screens and was even worse in South Korea, debuting in eighth place with $129,000 on 47 screens over the weekend and $166,000 in total. As far as holdovers go, the film was surprisingly consistent at roughly 60% down in most major markets. This includes the U.K. where it was down 63% to $7.11 million on 504 screens; however, it still managed first place in that market, while it now has $33.57 million after just two weeks of release compared to the lifetime total of $16.31 million for its predecessor. It is important to note that Twilight was surprisingly weak in the U.K. compared to its box office performance in most major markets. That said, New Moon has topped the lifetime total of the earlier film in every single major market it opened in last weekend, which is an amazing feat. It has yet to open in only a few other markets, but unless the film cost a lot more to make than has been reported, it has already shown a sizeable profit.

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In its eighth day of release, Summit Entertainment's "The Twilight Saga: New Moon" crossed the double-century mark making an estimated $206.1 million.

The domestic B.O. for "New Moon" easily eclipsed that of the first "Twilight" which amassed $192.8 million in 20 weeks.

After Warner Bros.' football drama "The Blind Side" squeezed a few more bodies into the multiplex on Thanksgiving than "New Moon," the vampire sequel took the top spot back on Friday with $17.9 million at 4,042 theaters. While that figure reps a 75% decline for "New Moon" from its first Friday, such steep drops aren’t uncommon for a record tentpole opener, i.e. "The Dark Knight" fell 67%; "Spider-Man 3," -71%; and "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End," -70%.

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Summit Entertainment is reporting that the "Twilight" sequel opened on Thursday night to an unprecedented $26.3 million during its midnight screenings across the country. The film unspooled on 3,514 screens, playing at 12:01 a.m. for die-hard fans — many of whom arrived at the theaters dressed as their favorite characters.

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