My only hope is that this will suffer from "High School Musical" syndrome and have a huge opening weekend, where 90% of its audience swarms to it, and then box office intake nose dives. The book and its sequels are, to quote a great critique, "the great literary plague of the 21st century". Great, now His Dark Materials gets to lie broken and unfinished, and this schlock with its infinitely inferior source material is going to have the whole series filmed (the movie only cost about $40 million). To help me express my outrage once again, Mr. Peter O'Toole....
Source: Yahoo Movies
Bigger than the latest Indiana Jones. Bigger than the biggest James Bond. That's how big Twilight was yesterday.
The $37 million vampire flick, expected to have a killer opening day, had a monster opening day, grossing an estimated $35 million, Exhibitor Relations reported. One-fifth of that gross, or $7 million, came from Friday midnight screenings.
The box-office tracking firm said a $75 million Friday-Sunday gross was now a possibility. Going into Friday, $60 million was considered the movie's best-case scenario.
When the counting's done, Twilight's Friday take may rank as the 14th or 15th biggest opener of all time, having surpassed the debuts of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull ($25 million) and Quantum of Solace ($27 million), to name two recent blockbusters.
Bolt, the animated talking-dog movie, was curbed by Twilight, grossing $7 million on Friday, Exhibitor Relations said.
For a great critique of Stephenie Meyer's literary bubonic plague, click HERE (I want to kiss this person's feet).
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