'New Moon' rules worldwide box office
Sunday, November 22, 2009 at 2:46PM | By Franck Tabouring 
While scoring a superb $140.7 million weekend domestically, Chris Weitz's "The Twilight Saga: New Moon" also topped the international box office with an impressive $118.1 million in only 25 markets.
Worldwide, the anticipated "Twilight" sequel starring Kristen Stewart, Taylor Lautner and Robert Pattinson pulled almost $260 million this weekend. The first film only bagged $384 million during its entire run.
At No. 2, Roland Emmerich's apocalyptic action adventure "2012" picked up another $100.5 million, reaching a fantastic overseas total of $341.1 million after only 12 days in release.
Meanwhile, Disney's 3D motion-capture adventure "A Christmas Carol" earned another $18.5 million in third place. The film's cumulative gross currently stands at $60 million.
Following in fourth place this weekend with $5.8 million was Sony's Michael Jackson documentary "This Is It," which brought its international total gross to $168.5 million. Pixar's "Up" finished with $3 million in fifth place, reaching a total haul of $379 million.
Other results from the overseas box office: "Couples Retreat" scored $2.5 million for a $37.7 million cume; "Inglourious Basterds" picked up $2.2 million; "Harry Brown" bagged $1.3 million; and "Tresor" grabbed $1.4 million.
Source: The Hollywood Reporter
Reader Comments (2)
It brought more than I thought in the international market it kind of sucks this movie is only appealing to Twilight fans only not a regular going person.It will be interesting to see how long 2012 holds on international box office
As excepted New Moon it did well but domestically and internationally but will it have legs to sustain on I don't think so but anyway this movie has made it's mark because of the book and Twilight fans and will be upto next part in june how much that brings in it's opening will that movie open big like this movie did. It will be to watch out for in terms of record if same amount of people turn up it might do the same I think.It kind of feels sick that this kind of movies are breaking record the only movie I see breaking this record is only Batman 3 or let's see Iron Man or Toy Story.