Tag Archives: Twilight Saga: New Moon

Twilight Tracker App On Sale!

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The official Summit Ent. Twilight Tracker iPhone app is on sale in the iTunes store for the holidays! Check out the app here!

• Choose your avatar from among a selection of characters from the TWILIGHT movies
• Talk to other TWILIGHT fans by posting “shouts” onto a public message board
• Find messages by similar avatars
• Connect the “Twilight Tracker” to Facebook and Twitter to have “shouts” posted to your social media accounts
• Stay up-to-date with the latest news, photos and videos for the movies
• Learn more about the movie characters

EW interviews ‘New Moon’ costume designer Tish Monaghan

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Entertainment Weekly interviewed ‘New Moon’ costume designer Tish Monaghan:

ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Anyone who’s listened to the Twilight DVD commentary knows that Robert Pattinson wasn’t a fan of Edward’s pea coat.

TISH MONAGHAN: He wasn’t a fan of the pea coat. He wore it in virtually every scene, and I think maybe he just got tired of it. I’m guessing. [Laughs] He just wanted a more mature look. That was part of Edward’s Grade 11 year, and now he’s getting into his graduation year, he’s in a relationship. He had worn hoodies and jeans and sneakers, and Robert, the director [Chris Weitz], and I all wanted to portray him more as a gentleman, more elegant and classic. With our vampire characters, I always went back to the time period in which they were turned to see if there’s any element I could try to simulate in contemporary clothing. He came out of the Edwardian period, around 1910. Of course, most of the gentleman from that time would be wearing suits, coats, hats, etc. We had to pick something that was iconic for the character that would suffice to be used throughout the whole film. At the very beginning of the film, he has one school outfit, and then there’s Bella’s birthday party and disaster strikes. So Edward ends up in that same costume for the remainder of the film. I was thinking of just putting him in a dress shirt and a pair of pants, but Robert wanted to be in a suit.

Read the whole interview HERE!

New Moon Eclipses Twilight’s Domestic Box Office in 8 days

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New Moon has now passed $200 million in the box office domestically! That’s more then Twilight’s entire domestic theatrical run, in only eight days!

GossipCop has this past week’s daily numbers:

Monday 11/23 – $10.5 million

Tuesday 1124 – $11.5 million

Wednesday 11/25 – $14.3 million.

Thursday 11/26 – $9.2 million

Friday 11/27 – $17.9 million

Totals so far from Box Office Mojo:

Domestic: $206,074,000
+ Foreign: $132,100,000
= Worldwide: $338,174,000

MTV: ‘New Moon’ Chris Weitz Reveals DVD Details

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MTV caught up with director Chris Weitz to get the scoop on the New Moon dvd.

“There will be a commentary track,” Weitz revealed, saying that he’ll soon head into the recording booth with his three big stars, Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner. “It’ll just be us riffing off each other in our intimate way,” he grinned. “We kind of like each other, so that should be fun.”

“There will be probably about 20 minutes of deleted material,” he explained, promising some meaty footage. “It really is good stuff and a bonus for the fans.”

Read the whole article HERE!

FearNet: 20 Differences (That Work) Between ‘New Moon’ movie & Book

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Fearnet’s Jen Yamato brings us a new article of 20 differences
New Moon movie has from the book that work:

Twilight scribe Melissa Rosenberg faced an enormous challenge adapting Stephenie Meyer’s 500+ page novel for the screen, but it’s clear that the filmmakers chose to remain steadfastly faithful to Meyer’s book. (Perhaps to a fault, considering the reviews.) Still, for fans, New Moon should feel just authentic enough to drive it toward an enormous opening weekend. So how do Rosenberg’s additions, changes, and omissions from the text affect New Moon on film, and which ones work the best?

[Warning: Spoilers ahead!]

Way more shirtless boys!

We all hoped to get a glimpse of Edward’s alabaster chest in Volterra, but who knew we’d get to see so much hot werewolf skin? Thankfully, the Wolf Pack run such high temperatures and explode away their clothes so frequently that cut-off jeans and no shirt are their shared ensemble of choice.

Read the whole article HERE!

New Moon #3 all time best weekend opening with $140.7 million

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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.

Read the rest and all of his updates HERE!

You can also follow Larry on Twitter HERE!

“New Moon” takes in $72.7M to break all-time single day box office record

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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! :D

‘New Moon’ poised for biggest box office day ever

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The Los Angeles Times has been talking to people who have been watching the ticket sales today for New Moon:

By 5 p.m., the movie had already sold more than $50 million worth of tickets in the U.S. and Canada. When evening shows are included, the total will likely be more than $70 million, the people said.

Given the huge amount of pent-up interest among fans, who are rushing out to theaters on opening day, ticket sales are expected to drop significantly on Saturday and Sunday. Nonetheless, a total weekend gross of more than $110 million is all but certain and more than $120 million is very possible. That would give “New Moon” the biggest weekend gross for any movie this year and make it one of the top five pictures of all time at the domestic box office, not accounting for ticket price inflation.

Read the whole article HERE!

New Moon breaks all-time midnight box office record

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Official numbers from Summit are in!

Summit has announced that The Twilight Saga: New Moon has officially set a new all-time midnight box office record, taking in $26.27M from 3514 theaters.

This shatters The Dark Knight’s $18.4M midnight debut for a 3-day weekend. It also easily surpasses the all-time record for midnight showings which was held by Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, which took in $22.2M on a Tuesday night on its way to a 5-day weekend total of $158M. The Dark Knight went on to take in $67.17M that opening day, 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.

TY to the Lexicon. Source: Larry at ProNetworks