New Moon has a massive worldwide opening
This weekend has all been about THE TWILIGHT SAGA: NEW MOON which opened to gargantuan numbers around the world, $118m from 24 countries. In the UK, its opening day figure of £4.6m is the second highest opening day in history behind A QUANTUM OF SOLACE (£4.9m).
2012 slipped to second spot with just under £3.5m this weekend, taking its total to £12.9m in ten days.
Two Picturehouse Recommends titles opened this weekend and both made it into the top ten. The Coen brothers’ A SERIOUS MAN made it into the 8th spot with just over £300k and Steven Soderbergh’s THE INFORMANT! scraped into the 10th spot with £179k over three days.
Across the Pond
THE BLIND SIDE, Sandra Bullock’s new football film, exceeded expectations and kicked off to a fantastic start. Together with NEW MOON, both female-led films, helped the top ten soar to a jaw-dropping $245m this weekend.
Sony will be disappointed with their animated comedy PLANET 51 which took in a lukewarm $12.6m.
Now in its third weekend, Lionsgate’s awards contender PRECIOUS, expanded into moderate national release (from 174 locations to 629) and nearly doubled its weekend gross with an estimated $11m. In comparison, Oscar winner NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN expanded nationally this same weekend in 2007 from 148 to 860 sites while also in its third week and grossed $7.8 for a weaker $9,043.
PRECIOUS‘ success is set to run and run with more venues being added on Wednesday for the holiday weekend.
UK Top Ten 20-22 November
- The Twilight Saga: New Moon, 499 sites, £11,655,852 (new)
- 2012, 480 sites, £3,496,202
- A Christmas Carol, 604 sites, £2,091,197
- Harry Brown, 357 sites, £723,743
- Up, 632 sites, £641,952
- Fantastic Mr. Fox, 452 sites, £453,874
- Men Who Stare At Goats, 319 sites, £428,938
- A Serious Man, 51 sites, £302,985 (new)
- The Fourth Kind, 246 sites, £181,105
- The Informant!, 116 sites, £179,149 (new)
