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! 
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Does this include Britain?
Can’t belive all these records were breaking!!! So AwSoMe!!!
That’s amazing! I saw the movie last night and it was great, this is well deserved.
Awsome!!! Wohoo let’s keep breaking records yay!!! Saw the movie last night…book was much better..hated the ending…but it was good
Oh My Jacob!!!! That’s soooooooo awesome! its better than awesome it’s Taylorific! Go Team Jacob!!!
Awesome!!! Twilight pwned Harry Potter AND The Dark Night!
I went to the midnight showing on Thursday. The ending was so amazing!!! Can’t wait for Eclipse!! 221 Days!
omg i saw new moon the DAY it came out and i loved it i soooooooooooooooooo cant wait for eclipse btw the end was funny when edward proposed
haha well DUH we broke records!! omg the movie was fantastic. <3 TAYLOR!!
oh my gosh, that movie was amazing. I went with some of my friends on the opening night and it was spectacular!!! I can’t wait for eclipse!! The only thing that dissapionted me was that they didn’t explain it well if u hadn’t read the books. I hope david slade does better with eclipse.
I actually like how it assumes that you have read the books. That makes me feel like they are especially making it fot twilighters
Yay that’s awsome! I saw the movie last night & it was great
Bravo on a great movie and records being broken!!! Love the sparkles.
I wonder how Eclipse and Breaking Dawn will do I think it will be EPIC
if new moon is breaking all of these records, can you imagine what eclipse and breaking dawn will bring in?! serious digits .. i saw the movie on friday and i thought it was pretty good
the ending was actually my favorite part!
holy crap ikr?! eclipse should be HUGEEE, not to mention breaking dawn!!
OMG!! Awesum!! i saw it friday night with my friends. Absolutely beautiful. Chris did a great job sticking to the book. i felt like i was reading it all over again
ECLIPSE HERE WE COME!!
oh yea and i saw it again today!! <3
I loved it!!!! I think i may go see it again.!!! and i cant wait till Eclipse!!!! My fave book!!!!
I loved the movie..seen it opening night and gonna see it again..I thought the movie followed the book pretty good…especially the opening scene
I contributed to that record… my cousin and I saw it at 5pm as planned and then went back for more at 11pm!
twlight is asume i went to see it yesterday it is the best movie ive ever seen and i seen a lot of movies anyway the cast are so hot is is unbleaveable EDWARD OMG hot ! hot! hot!
I saw it twice. I went to the Midnight showing with my friends and then I went to a 1:30 pm showing that same day with my Aunt. I’m going again some time this week with my sister. It rock! and EDWARD ohhhhhhh.
Omg!! New Moon is SOOO awesome! Im gonna see it again today:) i cant wait till eclipse!!
Just came back from seeing New moon, and I freaking loved it! I loved everything, I can’t find anything that I didn’t like about it.
i’ve seen new moon 3x already!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i cant wait for eclipse and breaking dawn
Eclipse will be bigger. guarenteed
but new moon was awesome.
im going to see new moon agine i cant wate to eclipse and beaking dawn
OMG JUST GOT BACK FROM SEEING NEW MOOON, I EXPECTED IT TO BE GOOD BUT OMG !!! X
My Daughter & myself went at 10AM on Friday to see New Moon. it was the best, what a BAD ASS moive, can’t wait for the rest of them. Eclipse is such a ggod book can’t wait until June, it just seems to long away from now and I can’t wait for Breaking Dawn.
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Funny, I was discussing this thing with my older sister the other day, now I’ll have one particular far more argument in my hand when it’ll come to confrontation after again….