Friday Box Office: New Moon, New Record
The Dark Knight may have had a lot of things going for it, but it didn't have Taylor Lautner's abs. Aided by a cuh-cuh-crazy gross from midnight shows on Thursday, The Twilight Saga: New Moon absolutely decimated the previous opening day record of $67.2 million set by The Dark Knight, banking $72.7 million from less screens and less theaters. Can it break Knight's all-time opening weekend record, $158.4 million? To be continued...
Full figures, after the jump:
THE TWILIGHT SAGA: NEW MOON: $72,700,000 (new)
THE BLIND SIDE: $10,920,000 (new)
2012: $8,100,000 ($89,821,000)
PRECIOUS: BASED ON THE NOVEL "PUSH" BY SAPPHIRE: $3,600,000 ($13,996,000)
PLANET 51: $3,150,000 (new)
A CHRISTMAS CAROL: $3,000,000 ($70,561,000)
THE MEN WHO STARE AT GOATS: $860,000 ($25,711,000)
THE FOURTH KIND: $610,000 ($22,223,000)
COUPLES RETREAT: $555,000 ($103,604,000)
LAW ABIDING CITIZEN: $495,000 ($68,907,000)
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Sigh. You know you're getting older when you so don't give a shit about Vampire Movies, other than their grosses and the fact that every two-bit Producer in this town will be jumping on the fucking Vampire Express and sending you moronic Vampire Movie scripts.
This is gonna sound really anal, but it's a bugaboo of mine: it should read "fewer screens and fewer theaters." Less is a measure of degree. Fewer is a measure of quantity.
Example: I'd like to see fewer pictures of Taylor Lautner in the future.
No, you're right. What is it about "fewer"? No one likes using it. The word is in desperate need of a lobbyist.
So then I guess FEWER people would avoid you if you were LESS insufferable.