Box Office: 'New Moon' reaches $230M!

Weekend of November 27 – 29, 2009: 'New Moon' & 'Blind Side' deliver superb results at b.o.

Chris Weitz’s “The Twilight Saga: New Moon” prevailed at the North American box office for the second consecutive weekend with a solid $42.5 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday.

The sequel to “Twilight” scored a superb average of $10,515 per theater at 4,042 locations, lifting its domestic total to an incredible $230.6 million after a little more than one week in release.

Following closely in second place was Sandra Bullock’s surprise drama “The Blind Side,” which bagged another $40.1 million for a cumulative gross of $100.2 million.

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'New Moon' scores third highest opening gross!

Weekend of November 20 – 22, 2009: ‘Twilight Saga: New Moon’ has come to rule them all!

“The Twilight Saga: New Moon” stormed to the top spot at the North American box office this weekend with a phenomenal $140.7 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday.

The Chris Weitz-directed sequel to “Twilight” scored a huge average of $34,965 per theater at 4,024 locations, scoring the third highest opening of all time (following "The Dark Knight" and "Spider-Man 3").

“Moon” already broke records when it bagged $26.2 million from midnight screenings Friday. The sequel starring Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson outgrossed its predecessor by a solid $71.1 million.

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'New Moon' scores astonishing $72M Friday

It's done! "The Twilight Saga: New Moon" just beat the opening day gross of "The Dark Knight." Wait, what? No, this is not a mistake; "New Moon" did indeed score an amazing $72.7 million Friday.

The Chris Weitz-directed sequel to "Twilight" already pulled $26.2 million from midnight screenings yesterday. Now playing in 4,024 theaters, it raced past the $67.1 million opening day gross of "Knight."

"New Moon" is now easily on track to beat $100 million this weekend, but I'm not quite sure it will manage to top the $158 million "The Dark Knight" brought in during the first three days. We'll see what happens.

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This week's new movie releases - Nov. 20, 2009

Opening this week are "The Twilight Saga: New Moon" with Kristen Stewart; "The Blind Side" with Sandra Bullock; "Planet 51"; and Werner Herzog's "Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans with Nicolas Cage.

THE TWILIGHT SAGA: NEW MOON (with Kristen Stewart)

Synopsis: Bella Swan is devastated by the abrupt departure of her vampire love, Edward Cullen, but her spirit is rekindled by her growing friendship with the irresistible Jacob Black. Suddenly she finds herself drawn into the world of the werewolves, ancestral enemies of the vampires, and finds her loyalties tested.

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Posters for 'Sherlock Holmes;' 'Shutter Island'

Here are three posters for three films I'm actually looking forward to a lot. The first one is for Guy Ritchie's upcoming "Sherlock Holmes" and first appeared on the Web at LatinoReview.

It's quite a dark shot of lead actor Robert Downey Jr., who stars as Holmes. Jude Law is on board as Watson, Rachel McAdams plays his love interest, and Mark Strong will portray the villain. "Holmes," as the poster indicates, opens Dec. 25, 2009.

The second poster looks like a teaser sheet for Martin Scorcese's "Shutter Island," and it first popped up at RopeOfSilicon. Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo, Ben Kingsley, Michelle Williams, Max von Sydow, Patricia Clarkson, Emily Mortimer and Jackie Earle Haley star. The film opens Oct. 2.

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