Twilight (Movies)

The second installment of the vampire saga broke the record for midnight ticket sales Thursday night and was expected to record the biggest single-day sales ever at the box office Friday evening. Gross receipts from midnight shows in the U.S. and Canada totaled $26.3 million, distributor Summit Entertainment reported Friday morning. On Friday evening, four people at competing studios who were following box-office returns said the movie was all but certain to gross more than $70 million by the end of the day.  

BREAKING NEWS! SATURDAY 6:45AM UPDATE : "The night definitely belongs to Twilight ." This is what my Hollywood insiders are now telling me early this morning after NEW MOON 's late Friday night numbers came in.  

Ann McQuillin had seen the movie Twilight three times before she decided she just had to have a replica of the truck driven by lead character Bella Swan. She knew a red, 1953 Chevrolet half-ton with her name on it was out there somewhere. That somewhere was Virginia Beach -- the cab anyway. The truck's box came from Minnesota.  

This is no phlebotomy joke: vampires are coming to the Med City. At Midnight tonight, scores of teens will line up to howl at the "New Moon," the second film in the rabidly successful "Twilight" series. Serious fans of the series, "Twi-hards," they're called, already know what to expect. Edward and the rest of the Cullens leave Forks.  

A new survey shows a troubling number of youths who lined up at local theaters to watch the latest movie in the popular "Twilight" series think controlling and self-destructive behaviors portrayed in the film are OK. The Start Strong Idaho survey, a project of the Idaho Coalition Against Sexual and Domestic Violence, polled young fans Thursday about the series, which features an ordinary teenager, Bella, who is in love with a vampire, Edward. The survey found 68 percent of Idaho youths who ...  

New Moon has raked in US$26.3mil (RM89.42mil) to set a new record for midnight openings at its North American box office Friday, industry reports said. Entertainment industry sources said the highly-anticipated sequel beat Batman: The Dark Knight, which took US$18.4mil (RM62.56mil) in 2008, and even the sixth Harry Potter film. Harry Potter And The Half Blood Prince earned US$22.2mil (RM75.48mil) earlier this year in midnight screenings.  

The new Twilight vampire movie took a record $26.3m (£15.9m) in midnight showings at North American box offices, studio Summit Entertainment has said. That beats the previous North American record of $22.2m (£13.5m) for midnight openings, taken by Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince in July. Experts have predicted that New Moon will have one of the biggest opening weekends for a non-summer film. The first movie in the series, starring Robert Pattinson, made $69.6m (£42.1m). It is expected ...  

The fan frenzy regarding Stephenie Meyer's four-book series, a romantic fantasy of star-crossed lovers in a supernatural setting involving vampires and werewolves, has become a phenomenon. Excited "Twi-hards," as hard-core fans are known, showed up in attire and even temporary tattoos proclaiming their allegiance to either teenage Bella Swan's brooding vampire soulmate Edward Cullen or her best friend Jacob Black, who becomes part of a love triangle in "New Moon," the darkest tale of the four. ...  

Twihards will be OMG, OMG, OMG. The rest of us? ROTFL.