“The Twilight Saga: New Moon”, the sequel to the vampire-movie mega-hit “Twilight” sure is raking in the dough after making $26.3 million at North American box offices in midnight showings, beating the $22.2 million in midnight screenings made by “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” last July.
Not only that by Friday it beat another record, this time that of the “The Dark Knight” in 2008, when it grossed more than $70 million in single-day domestic ticket sales. “The Dark Knight’s” previous record was $67.2 million.
Now, on its second week, the film continues to break records crossing the $200 million mark after an additional $42.5 million in ticket sales this weekend. This is despite the 70% drop in sales compared to its opening weekend. The drop indicates that it will soon be edged out of the box office top spot. This doesn’t face the movie execs though since they are still raking in sales worldwide and pretty happy that they’ve already exceeded the total gross of 2008’s “Twilight”.