Word: moons
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...lowest gross of any winner since Labor Day weekend. But those rooting for an underdog had plenty to cheer about. The Blind Side - the true-life sports movie about a determined white woman and her adopted black son - finally overtook the vampires and werewolves of The Twilight Saga: New Moon at the North American wickets, according to studio estimates. And none of the three debut films in wide release could earn even half of what The Blind Side did. The only movie to spark hopes of box-office gelt and Oscar gold, Up in the Air, opened in limited release...
...Twilight” series and the box office records generated by subsequent film adaptations, it seems like everyone’s jumping on the bandwagon. This year saw not only the opening of the second “Twilight” installment, “New Moon,” but also the second season of the popular HBO television series “True Blood” and the premiere of the more PG-rated “Vampire Diaries” on the CW channel. Of course, these modern vampire hunks bear little resemblance to Count Dracula?...
Movie phenomena are supposed to occur once in a blue moon, or a new one. Yet for the past couple of weeks, two films, released the same day, targeting similar demographics, have had folks cheering and sobbing and clogging the plexes. Everyone expected The Twilight Saga: New Moon to be a smash, and it has not disappointed, piling up nearly half a billion dollars in less than a fortnight. But few were prepared for The Blind Side. The movie, made for just $29 million, has flummoxed Hollywood by earning about $105 million. On Thursday and Sunday, it sold more tickets...
PETER SCHULTZ, a professor of geologic sciences at Brown University, on an Oct. 9 satellite crash that NASA says confirms the existence of water on the moon...
...Twilight Saga: New Moon, $42.5 million weekend, $66 million five days; $230.7 million, second week 2. The Blind Side, $40.1 million weekend, $57.5 million five days; $100.3 million, second week 3. 2012, $18 million weekend, $25.6 million five days; $138.8 million, third week 4. Old Dogs, $16.8 million weekend, $24.1 million five days; first week 5. A Christmas Carol, $16 million weekend, $22.6 million five days; $105.4 million, fourth week 6. Ninja Assassin, $13.1 million weekend, $21 million five days; first week 7. Planet 51, $10.2 million weekend, $13.9 million, five days; $28.5 million, second week 8. Precious, $7.1 million...