Word: moons
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...Moon madness began with a thunderclap: it earned $26.2 million just in its midnight-Thursday shows. This was another new record, and it exceeded the entire weekend gross of five of the No. 1 pictures of autumn: Tyler Perry's I Can Do Bad All By Myself, Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs (in its second frame in the top slot), Michael Jackson's This Is It, Paranormal Activity and the horror comedy Zombieland. That last stat should end, for now, the question of whether zombies are the new vampires. These days, with Wolverine hogging DVD shelves and Jason...
That $140.7 million would also make New Moon the third hottest opener in movie history, after those predictable summer attractions The Dark Knight and Spider-man 3. Please note that the core demographic for those two smashes were young males who love comics; this one became a smash because of girls who read books. The supersmash status of New Moon shows that women can make megahits, and that, as with Harry Potter, a beloved book franchise can translate to widely and wildly popular movies. (Read "New Moon Review: Team Jacob Ascending...
...size of New Moon's boodle left the industry's box-office handicappers flummoxed. Like crazed billionaires trying to outbid one another for an evening with Angelina Jolie, they kept jacking up their weekend estimates as New Moon broke record upon record, day by day. On Thursday the smart money was on a $100 million opening; on Friday the ante was raised to $120 million, and on Saturday they finally got it right. Of course, the $140.7 million is simply another estimate: Summit Pictures' Sunday-morning guess at Sunday evening's take. The real number, released tomorrow afternoon, could...
...Moon had not existed - well, many young hearts would be broken, but also, the big news would have been the $34.5 million racked up by the true-life inspirational sports drama The Blind Side. Based on another book (Michael Lewis's bio of Michael Oher, a troubled black youth, adopted by a white couple, who became a college football star and NFL rookie), The Blind Side would have won the box-office race almost any other fall weekend, and gave Sandra Bullock the biggest opening of her career. Also impressive was the $11 million amassed by the African-American drama...
...though, New Moon is the big news. The international grosses will also be massive. The first film earned $192.7 million in North America and almost exactly the same abroad. The worldwide five-day total for New Moon (which opened two days earlier abroad) is already at $258.8 million; expect a final worldwide gross to near $700 million. The thing's a phenomenon, and all the analysis of its popularity can't explain or diminish it. Sometimes the best strategy for canny film people is to step out of the way and let a hurricane sweep by. Nobody knows anything, except...