Archive for November, 2009

New Moon Stays Number 1

Mazel Tov to New Moon, which is the first movie in a while to win the box office two weeks in a row — something Jim Carry could not do with A Christmas Carol. Surprising box office results were on tap for Sandra Bullock in The Blind Side. The Blind Side’s total [...]

Twilight New Moon #1

This week’s box office seemed to be in the bag for Twilight New Moon from early on. With a record-breaking single day sales on Friday & record-breaking midnight sales for its opening — Summit Entertainment banked $140.7 million. One record that did not get shattered was the opening weekend sales, as Kristen Stewart, [...]

New Moon > The Dark Knight

Twilight New Moon beat out all other movies for midnight ticket sales, according to Summit Entertainment. Estimates for Friday night’s ticket sales put New Moon ahead of The Dark Knight’s one day movie revenue of $62.7 million. Apparently the blitz of publicity hyping New Moon is paying off, and the trend of foreign [...]

‘The Twilight Saga: New Moon’ movie might suck

The early reviews are favoring the original director’s “connection with the story” in the first installment of Twilight. The buzz around the movie if feverish in my observation- the way “journalists” are covering this movie launch is as though they are all getting a commission from Stephenie Meyer’s “Twilight” series management team. News [...]

‘2012′ Movie Revenue #1 for the Week

And studio executives at Sony shock and awe the competition with another blockbuster opening — with $225,000,000 worldwide for 2012. $65 million of the total 2012 box office was generated in the U.S. market. Maybe James Cameron is not crazy to spend $500,000,000 on Avatar after all? If ‘2012′ can bang home [...]