In only ten days of release, "New Moon" has already grossed a worldwide total of $473M dollars. Compare that to the final total for "Twilight" which was $385M and, yeah, I think we can safely say that the "Twi-craze" has not only grown exponentially in the past year, but it's not going anywhere anytime soon. Sorry, Twi-haters (hey, if we get stuck with "Twi-hards" I'm christening the others with as lame a name. Plus, you know, "the others" was already taken by "Lost" and I make it a policy to try and not piss off J.J. Abrams just on general principle, so...), but time to face the facts. You might want to start building your bomb shelter to be ready for next June when "Eclipse" hits theaters. Don't say you weren't warned.
But, back to "New Moon"--and keeping in mind this weekend's figures are estimates and final figures, released tomorrow, might show a slight change:
- #1 for the second weekend in a row in the U.S. with $42.5M, for a domestic total of $230.6M.
-Total international box office of $243M--which is already $52M more than the total take of the first film AND it hasn't even opened in all territories yet.
- Currently the 6th highest grossing movie in the U.S. for 2009 and 13th worldwide.
Conclusion: Resistance is futile. Just give in and go see it. I even got my mother there the other day (she gave it thumbs up even if she "doesn't get all the fuss over Robert Pattinson." I see my work there isn't quite done).
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