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Crowds Flock to Vampires (of Course) and....
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Jul 04, 2010
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¡°The
Twilight
Saga:
Eclipse¡±
buy
gucci
shoes
drew
an
estimated
$161
million
out
of
North
American
theaters
in
its
first
five
days
of
release,
a
spectacular
if
not
quite
record-breaking
result.
And
in
a
surprise,
audiences
defied
critics
to
make
¡°The
Last
Airbender¡±
Nickelodeon
Tries
Again
to
Move
to
the
Big
Screen
(July
5,
2010)
Box
office
analysts
said
the
gross
cheap
gucci
shoes
was
big
enough
to
rank
¡°Eclipse¡±
third
on
Hollywood¡¯s
all-time
list
of
Wednesday-opening
movies,
behind
¡°Transformers:
Revenge
of
the
Fallen¡±
(2009)
and
¡°Spider-Man
2
¡±
(2004),
when
adjusted
for
cheap
kamas
inflation.
Summit
Entertainment,
the
studio
behind
¡°Eclipse,¡±
projected
that
the
movie
would
sell
another
$20
million
on
Monday
for
a
six-day
domestic
total
of
about
$181
million.
¡°Eclipse,¡±
dofus
kamas
which
was
easily
the
No.
1
picture
between
Friday
and
Sunday,
has
sold
an
additional
$100.2
million
overseas,
kamas
Summit
said.
It
has
yet
to
open
in
important
international
markets
like
Germany,
France
and
Britain.¡°We¡¯re
particularly
thrilled
that
this
third
movie
broadened
and
deepened
the
franchise,¡±
said
Richie
Fay,
Summit¡¯s
president
for
domestic
distribution,
alluding
to
exit
polls
indicating
that
the
audience
was
35
percent
male.
The
turnout
for
¡°The
Twilight
Saga:
New
Moon,¡±
the
second
film
in
the
series,
was
only
about
20
percent
buy
mbt
shoes
online
male,
and
that
was
higher
than
the
first.
buy
timberland
boots
¡°The
Twilight
Saga¡±
is
the
tale,
unabashedly
cheesy
in
spots,
of
an
ordinary
high
school
girl
named
buy
mbt
shoes
Bella
Swan
who
falls
in
love
with
Edward
Cullen,
a
heartthrob
vampire
who
is
too
tender-hearted
to
suck
human
blood.
In
¡°Eclipse¡±
Edward
(Robert
Pattinson)
and
a
beefcake
werewolf
the
north
face
(Taylor
Lautner)
try
to
protect
Bella
(Kristen
Stewart)
from
a
vampire
army.
It
was
expected
that,
with
strong
advance
sales,
¡°Eclipse,¡±
which
is
based
on
one
of
Stephenie
Meyer¡¯s
four
teenage
vampire
books,
would
be
an
immediate
juggernaut.
But
the
weekend
surprise
in
Hollywood
was
the
strong
showing
by
¡°The
Last
Airbender,¡±
a
movie
that
many
had
written
off
as
dead.Directed
by
M.
Night
cheap
timberland
boots
Shyamalan
and
produced
by
Paramount
Pictures,
¡°The
Last
Airbender¡±
was
greeted
by
an
avalanche
of
critical
hatred.
Only
9
percent
of
the
reviews
gave
¡°The
Last
Airbender¡±
positive
marks,
according
to
RottenTomatoes.com,
a
Web
site
that
aggregates
movie
reviews.
(To
compare,
the
much-maligned
¡°Sex
and
the
City
2¡±
was
given
a
score
of
16
percent
positive.)
But
¡°The
Last
Airbender,¡±
which
opened
Thursday
on
Paramount¡¯s
Nickelodeon
Movies
banner,
was
a
solid
No.
2
for
the
weekend
with
about
$40.7
million
for
a
domestic
total
of
about
$53.2
million,
according
to
Hollywood.com,
which
compiles
ticketing
statistics.
Paramount
projected
that
¡°The
Last
Airbender¡±
would
sell
an
additional
$17.4
million
on
Monday
for
a
five-day
total
of
about
$70.6
million.Making
the
difference
for
this
movie,
which
will
roll
out
in
international
markets
in
the
weeks
timberland
boots
ahead,
was
probably
the
power
of
the
Nickelodeon
brand,
which
Paramount
is
trying
harder
to
tap.
¡°The
Last
Airbender¡±
was
adapted
from
the
first
season
of
the
Nickelodeon
cartoon
¡°Avatar:
The
Last
Airbender.¡±
Viacom
owns
both
Paramount
and
Nickelodeon.
¡°This
demonstrates
the
power
of
the
whole
company
working
on
something
together,¡±
said
Rob
Moore,
vice
chairman
of
Paramount.
¡°We
hit
on
something
that
the
audience
looks
for
in
the
summer,
which
is
visual
escape,¡±
he
added.
¡°The
Last
Airbender¡±
cost
about
$150
million
to
make,
including
$15
million
to
convert
footage
into
3-D.For
the
weekend,
¡°Toy
Story
3¡±
from
Disney¡¯s
Pixar
Animation
was
third
with
about
$30.2
million
timberland
shoes
for
a
new
total
of
$289
million.
It
was
projected
to
sell
an
additional
$11
million
on
Monday.
The
ensemble
comedy
¡°Grown
Ups¡±
(Sony
Pictures
Entertainment)
was
fourth
with
about
$18.5
million
for
a
new
domestic
total
of
$77.1
million.
Sony
said
it
expected
¡°Grown
Ups¡±
to
sell
an
additional
$6.5
million
on
Monday.¡°Knight
and
Day,¡±
a
20th
Century
Fox
action
comedy
starring
Tom
Cruise
and
Cameron
Diaz,
was
fifth
with
about
$10.2
million
($45.5
million
total).
This
movie,
which
has
not
met
expectations,
should
sell
an
additional
$3
million
on
Monday.
THH
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