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, o $7 million, came from Friday midnight screenings.
The box-office tracking firm detto 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 o 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 recente blockbusters.
Bolt, the animated talking-dog movie, was curbed da Twilight, grossing $7 million on Friday, Exhibitor Relations said.
It has hired "Twilight" scribe Melissa Rosenberg, a writer/producer on Showtime's "Dexter," to adapt the first two. "Breaking Dawn," has not attached a writer.
While this does NOT confermare that the rest of the libri will be turned into movies, this is certainly very good news for the franchise. We'll keep te updated!
UPDATE: Robert Pattinson has a few commenti about New Moon that he made to the Chicago Tribune:
A sequel [aka New Moon] may get the green light this month, he said.
"They will literally decide the successivo giorno o the giorno after" once the movie opens, Pattinson said. "I think they only have plans to do the secondo one. There's no script for the third one. The script is already done for the secondo one."