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'Twilight' Finishes Friday with $33 Million with 'Bolt' and Bond Battling for Second

22 November 2008 12:34 AM, PST | From Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news

Twilight's on top and Bond has his eye on Bolt

Photo: Summit / Disney / Sony Steve Mason has updated his Fantasy Moguls early Friday estimates and after Twilight's reported $7.5 million take thanks to midnight screenings the estimate for the teen-vamp flick bumped to $33 million, and impressive opening to be sure, but how big will the drop be from Friday to Saturday? No matter how you look at it, should the $33 million stick and not drop too far it will actually mean Twilight will move ever so slightly ahead of current 16th place opening record holder Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone ($32.3 million). The three-day weekend total is a bit more difficult to predict. Many have already said (taking Friday expectations into account) Twilight is expected to hit in the high $50 million range with a chance at $60 million. Mason at Fantasy Moguls is typically quick to inflate numbers after a big opening

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The Weekly Wrap-Up: November 15-21, 2008

21 November 2008 11:51 PM, PST | From DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news

Let's face it. Teenage girls like looking at hot teenage boys just as much as vice versa. And if they're also hot vampires, all the better. Who are we to begrudge them an outlet for their burgeoning womanhood? Let them shriek and swoon and enjoy this weekend of Twilight while we focus on several of the smaller stories that broke during the week of November 15-21, 2008.

Director Kevin Munroe passed on some info about his interpretation of Italian comic Dylan Dog entitled Dead of Night. It offers a cornucopia of monsters: werewolves, zombies, and vampires - and a few sub-categories of those as well. I'm with Butane; this sounds like something to keep tabs on.

One upcoming project that gives me a very creepy vibe is Mel House's Walking Distance, as evidenced by the disturbing exclusive behind-the-scenes stills Mel provided to us.

By far the best news of the

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Twilight Set To Make $30 Million On Opening Day

21 November 2008 7:07 PM, PST | From twilightersanonymous.com | See recent TwilightersAnonymous news

After initial reports that Twilight had made more than 7 million in midnight showings on Thursday Variety is now reporting that the movie is set to make nearly 30 million on opening day alone. They also have some interesting statistics about where the top grossing theaters are how much the movie is set to make through the weekend and more.Here is what Variety had to saySummit Entertainments Twilight could see an opening day take of 30 million from 3419 playdates after grossing north of 7 million in Thursday midnight shows.If so Twilight could land a spot on the top 20 list of best opening day grosses somewhere between No. 17 and No. 20.Twilight is expected to open in the 50 million to 60 million range although it has a shot of ending in the 60s. It depends upon how much traffic slows down from Friday to Saturday.Twilight based on the bestselling book series by Stephenie Meyer is No.

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MTV Twilight Anemia, $7 Million On The First Night

21 November 2008 7:07 PM, PST | From twilightersanonymous.com | See recent TwilightersAnonymous news

Mtvs Kurt Loder review Twilight....nbspTwilight Teen Anemia By Kurt LoderIs the movie by the book?The movie version of Twilight is a considerable improvement over the windy bestseller on which its based. The first half of Stephenie Meyers vampire romance is a heaving sea of puppylove gush. After a couple hundred pages of plucky Bella Swan and her supercute bloodsucker boyfriend Edward Cullen endlessly expressing their mutual adoration His beauty lit up the kitchen Just give me a minute to restart my heart I was sure I felt a coma coming on. Fortunately Meyer does get down to narrative action in the second half and its not bad as these things go. But its a long book and a long slog. Read complete review herenbspTwilight Box Office Update Midnight Shows Generate A Reported 7 MillionnbspThe numbers are just starting to come in. Well have them all for you as soon as they break all weekend.

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'Twilight' Midnight Screenings Bring in $7 Million

21 November 2008 1:28 PM, PST | From GetTheBigPicture.net | See recent Get The Big Picture news

I'm glad I saw Twilight with its most loyal supporters. I lined up two hours early to take my seat at a midnight showing of the new teen vampire love story, and I have a few observations:

-Even in a theater packed with fans, the movie lacked energy

-I'd say 15 - 20% of the crowd were women over the age of 30

-It may not do the repeat business we might have thought

-With its midnight screening numbers, it may not need to

I attended my screening at the busiest theater in the state of Arizona, and was told by no less an authority than the president of that chain that its midnight screening ticket sales were higher throughout Phoenix for Twilight than they were for The Dark Knight. So a big weekend is definitely on the horizon.

How big that weekend is remains to be seen, but Variety is reporting that

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How High Will It Go? 'Twilight' Tops 'Sex and the City' Midnight Screenings

21 November 2008 12:35 PM, PST | From Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news

Variety reports Twilight took in more than $7 million during last night's midnight screenings, a number that clobbers the $2.5 million New Line's Sex and the City took in earlier this year, but still nowhere near The Dark Knight's $18.4 million box-office record. Early tracking from Fantasy Moguls for Twilight had it hitting a potential $64.3 million while early projections had it coming in at a more modest $50 million range. Our very own Box-Office Oracle projected a $54.7 million three-day take. Sex and the City ultimately managed a strong $57 million opening back in May but with the early number to pad its weekend tally I don't see why Twilight can't edge closer to that $60+ million number. Fandango reports Twilight is selling five tickets per second, as of early Friday morning making it the company's fastest-selling film since The Dark Knight. Twilight sites at the #3 spot on Fandango's list of Top Advance Ticket-Sellers of all-time.

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ITV previews new Prisoner series, Primeval, Law & Order London

21 November 2008 11:46 AM, PST | From Comicmix.com | See recent Comicmix news

Britian's ITV has a showreel for their upcoming season, with new content of interest for fans:

The first video clips I've seen for the remake of The Prisoner, starring James Caviezel (The Passion of the Christ) as Number Six and Ian McKellen (X-Men, Lord Of The Rings) as Number Two. You can read more at AMC's Prisoner production blog, with many entries by Sir Ian himself. Law & Order: London, starring Jamie Bamber (Battlestar Galactica) in the traditional younger detective role and Freema Agyeman (Doctor Who, Torchwood, Survivors) in the traditional female Da role. Character names? It's Law & Order, you know the roles. Although seeing DAs in wigs is a bit weird. At least they kept the "da-dum" sound. Clips for season 3 of Primeval. A new series called Whitechapel that, as far as I can tell, has nothing to do with Warren Ellis. Unless he's trying to recreate the Jack the

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Midnight "Twilight" Showings Sell Out

21 November 2008 8:22 AM, PST | From x17online.com | See recent x17online news

Los Angeles, California (X17online) - More than a thousand midnight screenings of the teen vampire movie "Twilight" sold out Friday morning. In Los Angeles, pairs of tickets were hawked for upwards of $50 on Craigslist. On Facebook, members were planning their opening-night wardrobe. Many theater owners said they were adding additional showtimes - some as late as 2:45 a.m. Friday - to meet the demand for tickets. "Twilight" currently represents more than 94 percent of all weekly ticket sales on the Fandango's Internet ticket broker's Web site. "It's our fastest ticket-seller since 'The Dark Knight,'" Rick Butler, chief operating officer of Fandango, said in a statement. "The impressive advance ticket sales are clearly the result of the growing Internet buzz from the novel's online fans. There are so many moviegoers staying up late to see the movie at midnight that 'Twilight' might single-handedly boost coffee sales on Friday morning.

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Twilight Trumps Sex at Midnight

21 November 2008 5:31 AM, PST | From Reelzchannel.com | See recent ReelzChannel news

The La Times reports: "No one's confirming it yet, but look for Thursday midnight shows of 'Twilight' to gross north of $7 million. That easily beats the $2.5 million earned by 'Sex and the City' in midnight shows." However, "Twi-hards" still no match for fanboys, with The Dark Knight making $18.4 million in midnight screenings and Star Wars 3: Revenge of the Sith at $16 million.

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Eckhart is Set for "Battle : Los Angeles"

21 November 2008 4:47 AM, PST | From www.ohmygore.com/ | See recent OhMyGore news

Aaron Eckhart (Harvey Two-Face in "The Dark Knight") is attached to star in "Battle: Los Angeles", a sci-fi action film that Jonathan Liebesman is directing for Columbia Pictures, says The Hollywood Reporter. The story, written by Chris Bertolini, revolves around a Marine platoon's encounter in the battle on the streets of Los Angeles against an alien invasion. Eckhart will play the platoon leader in the film, which has yet to set a start date. Neal Moritz and his Original Film are producing....

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Week in Review: Depp's Mad Hatter, 'Trek' Trailer, 'Trainspotting' Sequel

21 November 2008 3:49 AM, PST | From GetTheBigPicture.net | See recent Get The Big Picture news

It's Twilight Friday, and like thousands of moviegoers, I saw the film at 12:01am. So, yeah - yawn. I'm pretty tired. Normally, when you have an event movie - and make no mistake, this is now suddenly an event movie - the rest of the movie world kind of steps back.

That's not the case this week, though, and we have a lot of stories for you from the past few days.

The Dark Knight goes Lego

Who watches the Watchmen video game?

Star Trek has that new trailer smell

Johnny Depp dolled up as The Mad Hatter, maybe

Slumdog Millionaire director Danny Boyle talks Trainspotting and 28 Days Later sequels

DVDs to go on sale on Fridays or Sundays or whenever the studios feel like it

Jean-Claude Van Damme is quite a charmer

The Soloist, once an Oscar hopeful, is being buried in mid-2009

Damn - watch this Coraline

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Colin Boyd

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Movie Review: Bolt (2008)

21 November 2008 12:46 AM, PST | From Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news

Bolt, Mittens and Rhino in Bolt

Photo: Walt Disney Pictures Children will have fun and dog lovers are sure to adore it, but for the rest of us Bolt is nothing more than a formulaic passing interest. There are no twists, turns or yields you don't see coming from a mile away and the film takes zero advantage of the advances in CGI animation presenting a flat palette just as uninteresting as the plot itself. To say I was bored would be an understatement as I was left to concentrate on the comfort of my 3-D glasses as I watched a film that wouldn't be very interesting even if I was passing through a worm-hole to the fourth dimension. Early trailers for Bolt now prove I should trust my gut more often as what I ultimately got on screen mirrored my original lackluster impression. Disney subsequently released the more entertaining

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Oscar Eye: Which Hopeful Will The Audiences Love?

20 November 2008 10:02 PM, PST | From cinemablend.com | See recent Cinema Blend news

That sneaky, wily Oscar race is actually starting to get a little less cloudy, with barely three months left to go before the big show. The Gurus of Gold, a conglomerate of some of the smartest Oscar predictors out there, have come up with a Best Picture list that features at least some consensus. There's even buzz floating around about nearly every single possible contender (except Gran Torino), with even the faintest hints of reviews for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button getting out there. So even while critics still scramble to get their eyes on the December releases, the Oscar futures for many movies will be determined by audiences. Slumdog Millionaire has been pegged for a while as the likely audience favorite, and its $36,000 per-screen average for opening weekend indicates that could happen. And The Dark Knight, of course, is steaming in as the biggest movie of the year,

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People Get The Dark Knight For Free

20 November 2008 8:48 PM, PST | From cinemablend.com | See recent Cinema Blend news

I'm pretty much an anachronism. I still do things like buy and rent DVDs. Heck, I even go see movies in theaters from time to time. That's old news; headed the way of the buggy whip. These days nobody pays to watch movies. They download them for free on the Internet. According to Torrent Freak, The Dark Knight will lead the way this year as the most illegally downloaded film of 2008. DVD-rips of the grim superhero epic were downloaded off BitTorrent more than a million times this week. That makes it the most downloaded movie of the week and the site figures it will"crush Iron Man, The Incredible Hulk and Transformers, as it will easily become this year's most pirated movie." Anything that crushes crap like Transformers is good in my book. While I'm sure the producers would like to have the money they lost to pirating, they will

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Marketwatch - Twilight Statistics

20 November 2008 7:07 PM, PST | From twilightersanonymous.com | See recent TwilightersAnonymous news

Twilight Dawns Tonight With Hundreds of Midnight Shows Sold Out on FandangoNEW Film Overtakes Harry Potter Movies As Third Biggest Advance Ticketseller In Company History Twilight currently represents more than 94 of all weekly ticket sales on Fandango. Its our fastest ticketseller since The Dark Knight says Rick Butler chief operating officer of Fandango. The impressive advance ticket sales are clearly the result of the growing Internet buzz from the novels online fans. There are so many moviegoers staying up late to see the movie at midnight that Twilight might singlehandedly boost coffee sales on Friday morning. Here are a few statistics from our ongoing survey of more than 5000 Twilight moviegoers on Fandango.com 83 say they plan to see Twilight more than once 56 are planning to see the movie with a group of friends 42 of respondents are 25 or older 58 are younger than 25 25 of respondents claim they will see Twilight with their

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'Twilight' shows selling out fast

20 November 2008 1:00 PM, PST | From screeninglog.com | See recent screeninglog news

Some people got upset with me because I wrote "Twilight" has generated almost - if not more - buzz than "The Dark Knight," but considering all the madness around the upcoming vampire romance, I don't think it's that much of a far-fetched statement.

Sure, "Twilight" didn't beat "The Dark Knight" in terms of advance ticket sales, but then again, nobody went on a bloody rampage to see Christian Bale at an autograph session. Plenty of Twilighters did..

Anyway, Variety reports close to 2,000 shows are already sold out, including 600 midnight shows! Over at Fandango, the film climbed to No. 7 in the list of best advance ticket sales.

I welcome you to tell me I'm wrong, but isn't this insane? I mean, this is not a sequel to a popluar blockbuster or anything like that. It's just the first flick based on a novel about the love between a vampire and a girl.

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Bryan Singer Talks 'Superman' Sequel and 'Valkyrie'

20 November 2008 12:32 PM, PST | From Cinematical.com | See recent Cinematical news

It's a bird, it's a plane ... no wait, it's Bryan Singer dodging more Superman sequel questions!

Pretty soon Bryan Singer will be doing a big publicity push for Valkyrie, and when that time comes look for folks to be bombarding him with Superman sequel scenarios ("Well what if you half-produced it and starred as a villainous mutant Hitler who wears an eye patch -- is that an option?"). After all, things are still way up in the air regarding further installments for a franchise that's ... let's just say stalled at the moment. MTV managed to snag a quick chat with Singer regarding Valkyrie and you betcha they snuck a Supes question in there. On whether he'll be directing, Singer says, "At the moment, I can't really talk about that. I wish I could. From my perspective, I'm going to take a brief pause. This movie has taken a long time,

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'Twilight' in Elite Company as Sell-Outs Multiply

20 November 2008 6:11 AM, PST | From GetTheBigPicture.net | See recent Get The Big Picture news

Let's update you on Twilight's advance sales and possible box office glory. I kind of missed the boat on my super early opening weekend prediction, telling someone last week that I doubted it could do $60 million in three days. I don't think that way anymore.

And it's all because of the lofty company Twilight is keeping on the Fandango chart of pre-sales. Currently, the vampire flick/cultural touchstone has sold out about 2,000 showings, 600 of them midnight screenings, according to Variety and Fandango, but when you look at where the film's total sales rank, it's pretty staggering. Here's the top ten list of total advance ticket sales on Fandango:

1 - Revenge of the Sith

2 - The Dark Knight

3 - Harry Potter 5

4 - Harry Potter 4

5 - Pirates 3

6 - Hannah Montana

7 - Twilight

8 - Lotr: Return of the King

9 - Spider-Man 3

10- Sex and the City

If you're a hater, you

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Oscar Predictions: My First Stab, All Top Eight Categories

20 November 2008 1:30 AM, PST | From Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news

So far this week I have added The Wrestler, Frost/Nixon and Australia to my lists of films seen and tomorrow I will see Defiance capping off a week in which I will see eight films in the span of four days. Yet, just know as you read my first official list of predictions for the 2009 Oscars there are still a few films I have yet to see. They include the following: Doubt Che The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Defiance Gran Torino Last Chance Harvey Nothing but the Truth The Reader Revolutionary Road Seven Pounds It's not a long list, but considering half of those films will be found on one or more categories on my list and the other half could potentially replace some of the titles I have listed, it is best to know this is not a list set in stone. I plan on updating it

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Is 'Watchmen' the Next '300'? - Take Two

20 November 2008 1:30 AM, PST | From Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news

Billy Crudup as Jon Osterman in Watchmen

Photo: Warner Bros. When I brought up an article idea with David with the question, "Do you think Watchmen will be the next 300?" I didn't elaborate any more than the question alone. I asked if he thought it was an article he thought he could tackle and he was up for it. He was as you can read here. Now, one of the reasons I don't have a lot of writers on this site, despite having a "Write for RopeofSilicon" link at the bottom of every page is that I like my opinion and while I welcome arguments I like to make sure my opinion is clearly stated. This had me wondering if I should give David a ring and explain what I meant by the question and what angle I wanted him to take. I decided against that since having someone write

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