New Moon has recorded the BEST OPENING DATE IN HISTORY!
The film grossed $72.7 million (that more than the whole opening weekend for Twilight) on 4024 screens.
The previous record was held by The Dark Knight which made 67.2 million on 4,366 in July of 2008.
So I guess we can say that the fan girls kicked the fan boys asses!
New Moon Takes Opening Day Record (Variety)
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Stellar! I hope New Moon gets the Native American actors some new gigs. They’re so little representation in Hollywood.
Hollywood can no longer deny that female audiences are just as huge and important as the fanboy crowd.
I went to see The Blind Side today and my theatre was packed. And this was at the matinee! So I hope that film does really well, too, since it features a strong female lead.
Okay, I haven’t seen the movie yet but here is something I’m trying to make sense of: There is this vehement, almost hysterical reaction I am reading among Facebook acquaintances (and these are “liberal” people) — about the outrageousness of the sexuality, and panicked reports of “40 year-old housewives” lusting after the hunky 16 year old male stars (crock-o-shit IMHO, but that’s a different argument), and the put-down that it’s just one step above The OC., the book’s no better than “romance novels for the Tiger Beat set”…
And it’s fascinating. When does anyone give a shit about salacious content in the movies, about audience titillation? WHEN IT’S A MOVIE WOMEN ARE GOING TO SEE! Didn’t this happen with SATC? Jennifer’s Body? If it’s a movie about female sexuality not in a familiar or easily understood form, or if women react strongly and positively to the sexual elements (which I think is a misreading and oversimplification of girls’ and womens’ reaction to these movies, but again another argument), does that signal a world out of control? Well, I need to see the movie but in the meantime, is anyone else feeling the weirdness?
As someone who saw “The Dark Knight” twice opening weekend (because I love comic movies, not because a boyfriend wanted me to), I have to disagree with your last line. It’s not that fangirls outnumbered fanboys, it’s that fans of Twilight (obviously predominantly female) managed to out-spend fans of Batman (the fans of which are probably about 50/50).
In other words: Hey, Hollywood! Audiences of women alone can make big, big bucks. Now make movies accordingly.
I find it refreshing that we have a hit franchise where the male leads are objectified and completely sexualized. For those complaining about Bella being a poor role model, here’s a handy list of recent male leads in blockbusters who were even worse role models.
http://scottalanmendelson.blogspot.com/2009/11/if-bella-is-terrible-role-model-then-so.html
According to the National Domestic Violence hotline, these are some signs that you may be in an emotionally or physically abusive relationship.
http://kar3ning.livejournal.com/545639.html
Fascinating look at Bella’s relationships.