The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part One smashes Box Office

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part One smashes Box Office

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn part one topped Box Office after earning an estimated 139.50 million dollars in its opening weekend, scoring a fifth biggest Box Office debut. Happy Feet Two on the other hand stands at a distant second place in the Box Office
rankings.

Millions of Twilight fans rushed towards the big screens to watch the first of the two parts of this final instalment of the Twilight series, giving Breaking Dawn Part One – the fifth biggest opening weekend of all time. It stands behind Harry Potter and
the Deathly Hollows Part 2 (169.2 million), The Dark Knight (158.4 million), Spider-Man 3 (151.1 million) and 2009’s New Moon (169.2 million) on the all time opening weekend score card.

It opened in nearly 10,000 venues at 54 territories with the best market outside North America was U.K which accounted for $22 million of the worldwide gross. Other strong territories included Russia ($15 million), France ($14.5 million), Australia ($12.2
million), Italy ($12 million), Spain ($11.6 million) and Brazil ($10.2 million).    

In addition to this, the Twilight grossing hasn’t relied on the higher prices of 3-D or IMAX like Dark Knight or Potter did. Overall, the franchise grossed past $2 billion worldwide.

It cost Summit Entertainment a reported $110 million to produce after tax rebates. The first part on the other hand was made for an estimated $37 million. Its audience mainly comprises of female i.e. 80 percent according to Summit. Furthermore, 50 percent
of the crowd was older than twenty-five.

Happy Feet Two saw a distant opening, grossing just $22 million in its opening weekend. It suffered from poor reviews and a five year gap from the original release. Furthermore, last weekend’s number one Immortals fell to number three with $12.2 million
earnings. Puss in Boots on the other hand completed the top five with earnings of $10.7 million, grossing a total of $122.3 million. The Shrek spin-off enjoyed positive reviews from the critics and both kids and adults loved it.

Breaking Dawn will face competition from Jason Segel’s spirited and reverential revival of The Muppets, which is set to release this week. Review Aggregator of Rotten Tomatoes gave a perfect 100 score which boosts the movie.

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