Bigger than the latest Indiana Jones. Bigger than the biggest James Bond. That's how big Twilight was yesterday.
The $37 million vampire flick, expected to have a killer opening day, had a monster opening day, grossing an estimated $35 million, Exhibitor Relations reported. One-fifth of that gross, या $7 million, came from Friday midnight screenings.
The box-office tracking firm कहा a $75 million Friday-Sunday gross was now a possibility. Going into Friday, $60 million was considered the movie's best-case scenario.
When the counting's done, Twilight's Friday take may rank as the 14th या 15th biggest opener of all time, having surpassed the debuts of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull ($25 million) and Quantum of Solace ($27 million), to name two हाल का blockbusters.
Bolt, the animated talking-dog movie, was curbed द्वारा Twilight, grossing $7 million on Friday, Exhibitor Relations said.
It has hired "Twilight" scribe Melissa Rosenberg, a writer/producer on Showtime's "Dexter," to adapt the first two. "Breaking Dawn," has not attached a writer.
While this does NOT कन्फर्म that the rest of the पुस्तकें will be turned into movies, this is certainly very good news for the franchise. We'll keep आप updated!
UPDATE: Robert Pattinson has a few टिप्पणियाँ about New Moon that he made to the Chicago Tribune:
A sequel [aka New Moon] may get the green light this month, he said.
"They will literally decide the अगला दिन या the दिन after" once the movie opens, Pattinson said. "I think they only have plans to do the सेकंड one. There's no script for the third one. The script is already done for the सेकंड one."