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New Moon the Number 1 Movie for the Second Weekend

Monday, November 30, 2009

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The Twilight Saga: New Moon made another $42.5 million over the weekend just in the U.S., raising its total to $230.7 million. Early on Friday, it surpassed the $191 million that Twilight made in its entire theatrical run — only seven days after opening! New Moon fell by a pretty heavy 70% from last weekend, but that’s [...]

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Chris Weitz: Looking Back on New Moon

Tuesday, November 24, 2009

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Entertainment Weekly talked to The Twilight Saga: New Moon director Chris Weitz today for a postmortem on the film’s massive box office success, mixed reviews, and experience in general.  As many of the Twilight actors have said about him, Chris seems very Zen about the entire experience.  Here are three of his answers that stood [...]

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New Moon Trailer is Being Watched Like Crazy

Friday, October 30, 2009

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A company called Visible Measures, which tracks trailer-viewing across the web, has announced that the trailer for The Twilight Saga: New Moon was viewed 25 million times last week alone. The second biggest trailer from last week, Michael Jackson’s This is It, was only watched by 2 million people.  In other words, New Moon is at [...]

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Not All Vampire Movies Can Do Well…

Saturday, October 24, 2009

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The Vampire’s Assistant, which features teen star Josh Hutcherson and is based on the very popular Cirque du Freak novels, isn’t doing very well this weekend at the box office — it’s set to make only around $7 million by the end of Sunday.  (By contrast, Twilight made $70 million in its opening weekend.) So despite [...]

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Penn Badgley in The Stepfather

Sunday, October 18, 2009

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Gossip Girl’s Penn Badgley stars in The Stepfather, a horror movie which opened this weekend to $12 million — not nearly as much as Where the Wild Things Are, but not bad for a horror movie. Badgley plays a troubled kid who returns home from military school to find out his mother is living with a [...]

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Decent Opening for Fame

Tuesday, September 29, 2009

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Fame opened this weekend and made $10 million — not bad, but not as good as dance movies like Step Up ($21 million) or musicals like High School Musical 3 ($42 million). Still, since it only had a budget of $18 million, it will probably make money. One movie it did beat was Vanessa Hudgens’ Bandslam, which [...]

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