New Moon Makes Over $26 Million in Midnight Showings
The box office for New Moon was expected to be huge and it is. Early estimates indicate New Moon made $26.27 million from midnight screenings at 3,514 theaters. Deadline Hollywood Dailysays this breaks the record set by Harry Potter And The Half Blood Prince earlier this year.
This is what my Hollywood insiders are telling me early this morning after NEW MOON's late Friday night numbers came in around $80 million from 4,024 North American theaters. This shatters both previous All-Time Friday and Single Day records of $67 million set by 2008's The Dark Knight. So Batman was beaten by the Twilight sequel's vampires and werewolves which won't sit well with the superhero-loyal moviegoing community. But Stephanie Meyer's "Twilight Saga" novels are now proving as much of a phenomenon as comic books for source material at the box office. Friday's figures included New Moon's $26.27M in 12:01AM screenings from 3,514 theaters. That set a new midnight opening record, smashing The Dark Knight's $18.4M set on July 18, 2008, and Harry Potter And The Half Blood Prince's $22.2M set on July 15, 2009.
Moviegoers are ignoring critics who wrote negative reviews of the film.
