The critic proof TWILIGHT made $70.5 million over it’s debut weekend, substantially more than enough for Summit Entertainment to quickly send out a press release the next day saying a sequel had been greenlit, based on Stephenie Meyer’s second book in the series NEW MOON.
The $70.5 million makes TWILIGHT the fourth biggest November release of all time, beating out QUANTUM OF SOLACE by $3 million. Coming Soon say audience research figures show that 55% of the viewers were under the age of 25 and women accounted for 2/3rd’s of the audience.
I also wonder how many of the fangirls saw this movie twice. Box Office Mojo report that for the first time since Eminem’s 8 MILE in 2002, the soundtrack for a No. 1 film also debuted at the top of the music charts, these fans are as rabid as any comic book geek.
| 1 | Twilight (2008/I) | $70.6M | $70.6M | |
| 2 | Quantum of Solace (2008) | $27.4M | $109M | |
| 3 | Bolt (2008) | $27M | $27M | |
| 4 | Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (2008) | $16M | $137M | |
| 5 | Role Models (2008) | $7.23M | $48M | |
| 6 | Changeling (2008) | $2.64M | $31.6M | |
| 7 | High School Musical 3: Senior Year (2008) | $2.01M | $86.8M | |
| 8 | Zack and Miri Make a Porno (2008) | $1.7M | $29.4M | |
| 9 | The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (2008) | $1.67M | $2.65M | |
| 10 | The Secret Life of Bees (2008) | $1.27M | $35.6 |
QUANTUM OF SOLACE dropped a healthy 59.4% from it’s first week, making another $27.4 million and no doubt won the male vote over the weekend. The movie has already crossed the $100 million mark domestically and now $418.5 million worldwide from a budget of $200 million.
