Sunday
23Nov2008
Box Office - 'Twilight' Earns $70 Million in Debut
Sunday, November 23, 2008 at 11:16AM
It cooled off considerably and thus missed its chance to
become the biggest non-major film debut of all time (Passion of the Christ),
but nobody's really complaining, since
Twilight opened with $70.6 million this
weekend, according to
Box Office Mojo. Here's the bad news, such as
it is: Half of that audience was the opening day crowd. Since we've dubbed this
a phenomenon, let's compare it to the last phenomenon. The Dark Knight
opened with $67 million on Friday, which was only about 42% of its weekend
total. 
2 - Quantum of Solace ($27.4 million)
3 - Bolt ($27 million)
4 - Madagascar ($16 million)
5 - Role Models ($7.2 million)
All of this is bad news for Bolt, the new Disney animated movie that was blackjacked by the early onslaught of Twilight viewers. I don't know if people who weren't watching Twilight but wanted to see Bolt just stayed away on Friday or what, but the movie never got off to a good start, and although a $27 million debut is decent, everyone thought this would do about 30% better. If there's a ray of sunshine for Disney, it's that Bolt's overall box office was a lot more steady, meaning it could play well for several weeks, but probably not enough to reach $100 million, meaning it will perform more like Brother Bear than Toy Story.
Quantum of Solace had a terrific weekend for a movie that suddenly no one is talking about. The Bond flick finished in second place, has now made over $100 million in the U.S., and its worldwide box office is closing in on $400 million in in four weeks.
The Top Five:
1 - Twilight ($70.6 million)
2 - Quantum of Solace ($27.4 million)
3 - Bolt ($27 million)
4 - Madagascar ($16 million)
5 - Role Models ($7.2 million)
Reader Comments (3)
Four Christmases is a piece of junk - Hollywood Reporter:
The misanthropic Christmas movie has become a holiday staple thanks to film executives who misread the success of "Bad Santa." This season it falls to Warner Bros.' "Four Christmases" to deliver a quadruple dose of dysfunctional family hijinks to genuinely dispiriting results. Bad enough to create one of the most joyless Christmas movies ever, but then to go for an unearned feel-good ending adds insult to injury.
Thus a cast that collectively has earned 18 Oscar nominations with five wins is assembled for a script that probably would have been better served by unknowns. At least the slapstick fights, pratfalls and regurgitation might have come off as a spoof of a Sundance dysfunctional family film. The approach by all supporting actors save for Voight is an exaggeration belonging more to the world of cartoons.
Well, that doesn't surprise me. Vince Vaughn is about as overrated as it gets, and Reese took the Kate Hudson road after her Oscar. We won't get to see it, fortunately or unfortunately, but it sure looks dreadful.
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