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The box office from 2008 was just a bit better than ‘07
Monday, January 05, 2009
Now that the holidays are over, the post-mortem for 2008’s box office is also being offered. The clear winner last year was Warner Bros. who had the runaway success of The Dark Knight behind them. With global ticket sales of $997 million dollars, Dark Knight didn’t just prove to be the biggest superhero movie of all-time, it also became the second highest-grossing film ever. Thanks to the Batman movie as well as Sex in the City and Four Christmases, WB enjoyed revenue of $1.77 billion dollars, the biggest haul of cash ever for a movie studio. Continue reading…
Posted at 11:13AM by Patrick
Twilight sequel slots release date
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Summit Entertainment isn’t waiting any time getting the ball moving on its sequel to Twilight, New Moon. The studio has announced that it will release New Moon on November 20, 2008 — the highly coveted American Thanksgiving weekend. Can Summit carve a second slice of box office dinner and dominate that weekend as they did last month? Will the Twilight phenom grow in the interim like the Harry Potter film franchise did or will it fizzle out before then? Continue reading…
Posted at 11:02AM by Patrick
Chris Weitz may direct Twilight sequels
Tuesday, December 09, 2008
Nikki Fink from Deadline Hollywood Daily is reporting that there is a rumored offer from Summit Entertainment out to Golden Compass writer / director Chris Weitz to direct the Twilight sequels, New Moon and Eclipse:
I don’t have official confirmation yet that this Twilight sequel offer has gone out to Weitz. But my insider says another reason it came down is because Weitz and Summit’s president of production Eric Feig are longtime pals. The source tells me Weitz is “still considering” the offer to helm New Moon and possibly also Eclipse if the sequel and threequel movie adaptations of Stephenie Meyer’s series of vampire books are made back-to-back. [more at source]
Posted at 1:50PM by Mike
It’s like Twilight but with puppets
Monday, December 08, 2008
Really. Just watch it.
Posted at 1:22PM by Patrick
Catherine Hardwicke won’t be directing Twilight sequel New Moon
Monday, December 08, 2008
Maybe I should open a psychic hotline or something. Remember last Friday when I blogged about the shuffling of feet between Twilight director Catherine Hardwicke and Summit Entertainment, the studio that released the film? Specifically I thought that it looked like a game of hardball was playing out between the director and the studio over the negotiations for Hardwicke to direct New Moon, the first Twilight sequel. It looks like my spidey senses were right on the money because now it’s official: Hardwicke won’t be directing New Moon. Continue reading…
Posted at 10:06AM by Patrick
Twilight director finally talks
Friday, December 05, 2008
Twilight director Catherine Hardwicke has finally gone on record after the stunning success of her rom-vamp flick. In an interview with Shock Till You Drop the Girlfight and Thirteen helmer says the usual stuff one is supposed to say after their movie earns nine figures at the box office; she’s humble, she gives props to the film’s stars, she doesn’t say anything ill towards the hordes of screaming teenage girls that lined-up to see the movie. In that whole interview there was one interesting part for me and it’s what Hardwicke doesn’t say that gets me curious… Continue reading…
Posted at 5:09PM by Patrick
Four Christmases defeats Twilight
Monday, December 01, 2008
The results are in and Twilight got defeated at the box office this past weekend by Four Christmases, the Vince Vaughn-Reese Witherspoon comedy. While Twilight didn’t perform like I thought it could, it still managed to come in third spot with a gross of $26.3 million, down 62% from its opening weekend performance. Four Christmases netted $31.6 mil followed by Disney’s animated family flick Bolt which took in $26.6 mil. Continue reading…
Posted at 11:04AM by Patrick
Twilight to dominate Thanksgiving box office?
Friday, November 28, 2008
Three new major releases arrived in theaters this week: Fox’s romantic epic Australia, Lionsgate’s third Transporter movie and New Line’s seasonal comedy Four Christmases. Surprisingly, not a single analyst wants to hazard a guess whether any of these three will defeat Twilightat the box office. Early reviews for Baz Lurhmann’s Australia have been mixed-to-negative; the Transporter series has never done major biz so no one pegs it as a serious threat; and Four Christmases probably stands the best chance of the three to land in top spot…but will it be able to gross more than Twilight in its second weekend? Continue reading…
Posted at 10:44AM by Patrick
Twilight actors to earn big paycheck for sequels
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
So here’s the proof that at least one of my predictions about the mega-success of Twilight has come to pass: the Chicago Sun-Times is reporting that Twilight stars Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart are going to get five times more to star in the sequel than they earned in the first film. The S-T reports that the duo reportedly made $2 million each to star in the first vampire abstinence movie ever made and now they’ll make $10 mil each for New Moon, the sequel, plus a percentage of the box office for the remaining movies that they make (there are four books in the Twilight series so there’ll be at least four movies, I figure.)
Posted at 3:16PM by Patrick
Twilight is #1 at the box office
Monday, November 24, 2008
…much to no one’s surprise but the big news is how much Summit’s emo vamp romance made. It beat Quantum of Solace’s opening which was $69 million. How much? Try $70.5 mil. Twilight took in more than $20K per screening over the weekend, pushing it far ahead of the weekend’s number two movie, Quantum of Solace, which added $27.4 m in its second weekend of release. Continue reading…
Posted at 10:04AM by Patrick
