New Moon Finishes Third in All Time US Opening Weekends
Despite setting a new record for the highest US opening day gross in cinematic history with an impressive $72.7 million, The Twilight Saga: New Moon was only able to finish third in the rankings for biggest opening weekends. It managed to take a total of $140.7 million, which has only ever been bettered by Spider-Man 3 ($151.1 million) and The Dark Knight ($158.4 million).
In the USA New Moon is now expected to surpass Twilight’s entire domestic gross of $191.5 million by the end of the week, and with worldwide ticket sales totaling around $260 million it won’t be too long before New Moon overtakes it predecessor’s international gross of $351.5 million.
Top 10 at the US weekend box office:
- The Twilight Saga: New Moon ““ $140.7M
- The Blind Side ““ $34.5M
- 2012 ““ $26.5M
- Planet 51 ““ $12.6M
- A Christmas Carol ““ $12.2M
- Precious ““ $11M
- The Men Who Stare at Goats ““ $2.77M
- Couples Retreat ““ $1.95M
- The Fourth Kind ““ $1.73M
- Law Abiding Citizen ““ $1.61M
