Larry at Pronetworks has an update on box office numbers!

Summit Entertainment now officially estimates that The Twilight Saga: New Moon took in $140.7M from 4024 theaters this weekend.

This puts the film in third place for all-time opening weekends, behind The Dark Knight ($158.4M) and Spider-Man 3 ($151.1M) and ahead of Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest ($135.6M). The film also hauled in $118.1M from 25 foreign countries for a worldwide total $258.8M.

In addition to becoming the new champ in midnight box office and single-day totals on Friday, New Moon has now shattered several other records as well. It was the #1 biggest non-summer opening weekend of all time and the biggest ever box office opening for an independent film (and widest indie release in history). New Moon also broke the record for fastest to reach $100M, beating The Dark Knight and Spider-Man 3, and had the highest opening ever for a “vampire” genre film (passing Twilight). Of the top 34 films with numbers released today, New Moon took in more than all the 33 others combined.

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Twilighters.org partnered up with Michelle from BellaAndEdward.com for the World Premiere of New Moon last Monday in Los Angeles, and here are the second batch of interviews with Chaske Spencer (Sam Uley), Bronson Pelletier (Jared), Kiowa Gordon (Embry Call), Tinsel Korey (Emily), and Boo Boo Stewart (Seth Clearwater).

Chaske Spencer (Sam Uley)

Bronson Pelletier (Jared)

Kiowa Gordon (Embry Call)

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Larry at Pronetworks has updated us on yesterday’s box office total:

FRIDAY NUMBERS: Summit Entertainment has announced that The Twilight Saga: New Moon took in $72.7M from 4024 theaters on Friday, setting a new all-time single day box office record.

Friday’s number includes the previously reported all-time record $26.27M in midnight screenings. This one-day total is also not far below the $85M 3-day weekend estimate originally proffered by Summit and accepted by many industry insiders. Few expected the film to approach the $100M mark. My personal guess, which I made last Tuesday, was $110M. Based on the numbers already in, advance sales, and tracking polls, some are now predicting a $125M weekend. That wouldn’t top The Dark Knight’s $158.4M opening but would still be the biggest non-summer 3-day opening weekend of all time.

This opening day number far surpasses that for The Dark Knight, which took in $67.17M from 4366 theaters on July 18, 2008 (including $18.4M from midnights). That film’s take dropped 29.1% from Friday to Saturday to bring in another $47.65M, and ended with $43.6M on Sunday for an opening weekend total of $158.4M.

Yay! That’s amazing! We’re breaking lots of records!

“I liked when Jacob transforms into the werewolf,” Peter Facinelli revealed to MTV News. “When I was reading the book — I mean, your imagination goes so far, and I was like, ‘I can’t wait to see that in the film,’ and it didn’t disappoint.”

Fellow Cullen Ashley Greene flew her Team Jacob flag by highlighting the wolf fights. “I think that I like the wolf fight. You never know how those are going to turn out with the CGI. I think it turned out very well,” she said, adding that evil vamps Jane and Aro are also cool.

“I was obviously there filming it and kind of saw the way Michael Sheen commanded the room, and he’s so fantastic to watch and be across from,” she added. “So I wanted to see how they came across on film, and I thought that it was a very cool scene.”

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