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Comment RSSTwilight New Moon Box Office Results – Massacre Continues
30.11.09 # Box Office # 7 Comments
Like an unstoppable screaming train, the unfathomably popular tween-friendly vampire shagging soap opera Twilight Saga: New Moon continues its unrestrained dominance of both the U.S and worldwide box office, proving to the disappointment and irritation of all that it wasn’t just a one-week flash in the pan.
This past week, New Moon has managed to scam $42 million worth of pocket money, bringing its total up to a whopping $230 million in just one week. In the worldwide market, the last week saw a massive gross as the worthless flick opened in number one across Europe, earning $81.5m. Top countries include the UK ($31.5m), France ($28m), Australia ($23m), Italy ($23m) and Germany ($18m). The total worldwide gross is a staggering $473.7m in one week!
If you still haven’t decided how painful this film is, check out the trailer, which displays all the moments from the final ten minutes of this cinematic abortion:
Sandra Bullock’s latest picture The Blind Side, where a rich white woman takes pity on a poor black boy, is still holding strong in second place. The picture grossed $40m this weekend, with a U.S total of $100m since release one week ago. Incredibly, The Blind Side managed to out-gross New Moon on Thanksgiving.
Roland Emmerich’s technically brilliant if slightly empty disaster movie 2012 is still clinging onto third place, making $18m, totalling $138m. The highest placing new release of the week was Disney’s Old Dogs in fourth place with $16m over the weekend. The Robin Williams/ John Travolta family comedy about two old men suddenly placed in charge of children opened on Wednesday and has so far made $24m.
Robert Zemeckis’ retelling of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol with Jim Carrey in terrifying dead-eye-o’vision clings on in fifth place, raking in $16m, totalling at $105m. The second highest new entry this week is the looks-so-bad-it-must-be-great Ninja Assassin, earning $13m this weekend and totalling $21m, in sixth place.
Seventh goes to Planet 51, starring Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson. The sci-fi comedy earned $10m over the weekend, with $28m in the bank so far.
In eighth is the uplifting family story of plight, abuse and hardship Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire. The gritty story of 1980’s Harlem life saw in an impressive $7m over the weekend and totals at $32m.
Wes Anderson’s Fantastic Mr Fox (review here) finally saw the end of its limited release and immediately jumped from twenty fourth to ninth, bagging $7m and totalling at $10m. Rounding out the top ten is the George Clooney/ Ewan McGregor-led The Men Who Stare At Goats (review here), a comedy about psychic warriors in the army. It made $1.5m over the weekend, with a total of $30m. Just missing the top ten is the brilliant-looking Viggo Mortensen starrer The Road (review here) with $1.5m, totalling $2m total. More people need to watch this film, it looks fantastic.
Most impressively of all, Disney’s new (old?) cartoon The Princess and the Frog opened in eighteenth with a weekend gross of $712,000. The total strikes at just over $1 million. Why is this so impressive, you ask? Well, the movie only opened in two theatres, one in New York, the other in LA!
Sources: Hollywood Reporter, Variety, BoxOfficeMojo
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For a movie this web site is claiming sucked ( New Moon) ,, it sure is making money.. So put a sock where it belong and go hit something.. the movie was great.
Making Money = Great. Good call.
This movie is idiotic. Though better than the first, New Moon is abhorrently brainless and dull. The fact that this made so much money marks the utter decline of Western culture. All hail the Idiocracy.
I’m just a film critic. Whether or not the site agrees with my opinion is nothing to do with me reporting that a film I find particularly distasteful (even damaging) is making money. I knew it was going to make money. Everyone knew it was going to make money. The next one will make even more money.
Fact is, it was a slow news day and it was a cheap shot for some venom.
And, yes, the fall of man will begin and end with this godawful series.
Stop drinking the hateorade man and just report the news or movies. NO one asked you for your thoughts on the movie. I bet your girlfriend or wife loved it though, not to mention your mom. haha
My girlfriend – as well as two more female friends of mine – thought it was awful. My mum didn’t know anything about it, and when I pitched it to her, she replied, ‘I prefer vampires who kill people.’
Anymore uneducated guesses on my life?
Hamburger sales don’t effect the sale of Fois Gras. They’re both food, but they have little relation to each other. Sometimes people want to eat junk food, sometimes they want to go to a classy restaurant.
Twilight is someone’s hamburger, and there’s nothing wrong with it, so long as it’s eaten as part of a balanced diet. Also, it’s important for people who eat hamburgers to KNOW they’re shit, so they can temper them with healthy foods.
Bottom line – enjoy your junk movie, Twilighters. There’s nothing wrong with that, but don’t sit there and tell me it’s great filmmaking because it’s making money.
QUOTE: And, yes, the fall of man will begin and end with this godawful series.
Makes more sense than the apple theory.
Actually, not to stretch the analogy to the point of taffy, but eating junk food is damaging. Not just to yourself, but to the world and your offspring. The epigenome project is evidence of that.
Also, this isn’t just junk food. There is absolutely NO nutritional value in these things. Stuff like Back to the Future, Indiana Jones, Star Wars, these are movies that used to be “junk food.” Fluffy and fun but with tons of brain and heart. Clever, wonderfully crafted stories, amazing cinematography.
These Twilight movies are the antithesis of this. And yes, every time shit like this is a success our culture takes one more step towards the abyss. Rent Idiocracy, it will change your life. Hopefully.