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We’ve had two Werewolve themed movies open in the last 3/4 months, ‘The Twilight Saga: New Moon’ and ‘Wolfman’.

So which one did better, well that would be ‘New Moon’.

Here is the breakdown.

New Moon opened on 11/20/09 with a $50mil budget and grossed a 3 day opening total of $142.8 million, and grossing in total (so far) $295.5 million domesticity and $706.1 million worldwide.

‘Wolfman’ which opened on 2/12/10 with a $150 million budget and grossed a 3 day opening total of $31.4 million dollars, to date grossing only $50.3 million domestic and $97 million worldwide (funny enough ‘Valentine’s Day’ took #1, meaning the scheme of things, ‘The Wolfman’ was again beat by a Taylor Lautner film).

If you total all the Werewolf moves since 1980, BoxOfficeMojo.com put ‘The Wolfman’ at #5 and ‘New Moon’ at #1 with both ‘Underworld’ movies and ‘Wolf’ filling in spots 2-4.

So once again, low budget, no A-list cast (at the time), “Teenaged” targeted movie beats out the high budget, super star cast (Sir Anthony Hopkins, Emily Blunt).

So far ‘New Moon’ as blown all of ‘Twilight’ records in just 9 days.

‘New Moon’ know has a worldwide total of $473.7 million dollars.  ‘Twilight’ took in $384.9 million worldwide during its entire theater run.

Domestically ‘New Moon’ has brought in $230.6 million which is also higher then the $192.7 million ‘Twilight’ brought in.

Now currently the goal to beat domestically is ‘Transformers’ $402.1 million to gain the #1 spot for 2009!!  If we want all time, ‘New Moon’ will need to bring in a total of at least $600.2 million domestically to beat out Titanic.

So lets keep those multiple viewings up people!!!

Summit Entertainment has many reason to smile this morning, 72.7 million reasons to smile.  That is the total that ‘The Twilight Saga: New Moon’ raked in on the opening day.  Making it the highest grossing opening day total, ever, beating out the Dark Knight’s old record of $62.7 million.

‘New Moon’ has also beat out all of ‘Twilight’ records:

Twilight Opening Day total = $37 million vs. New Moon’s Opening Day of $72.7 million.

Twilight’s overall opening weekend total was $69.6 million.  ‘New Moon’ has already beat that in its opening day.

Now in order of ‘New Moon’ to become the highest grossing opening weekend movie of all time, it will need to beat out Dark Knight’s record of $158.4 million.  That means New Moon will need to bring in at least $87 million between Today (Sat) and Sun, so that would be $43.5 million each day.  I think we can do that Twilighters.

Now, if ‘New Moon’ is to become the highest grossing film opening weekend film of 2009, it will need to beast ‘Transformers:Revenge of The Fallen’ $108.9 million.  That I know we can do!!!

From Summit Entertainment

THE TWILIGHT SAGA: NEW MOON has set a new record for opening midnight shows with an estimated gross of $26.270 million playing at 3,514 theaters for a per theater average of $7,476. THE TWILIGHT SAGA: NEW MOON passes HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE ($22.2 million) to take the number one spot.*  Following POTTER is DARK KNIGHT ($18.5 million).

In addition to THE TWILIGHT SAGA: NEW MOON, last night Summit re-issued TWILIGHT in theaters.  The film grossed $1.3 million playing at 2,057 theaters for a per theater average of $631.  The re-issue of Twilight came in just outside the top 15 for the week this is notable especially considering that all came from just 9 PM Thursday night shows.

Update: ‘New Moon’ Brings in $26.3 million dollars during midnight showings!! Officially beating ‘The Dark Knight’!!!

Per Larry @ ProNetworks:

UPDATE 12:00 NOON:

Unofficial reports say The Twilight Saga: New Moon has shattered The Dark Knight’s $18.4M midnight debut for a 3-day weekend. Sources put the total at $23-24M. This would also surpass Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, whose 5-day weekend began with $22.2M on a Tuesday night. Summit has not yet released official numbers.

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