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YOU CAN'T STOP THE SPARKLE
'New Moon' Smashes 'Dark Knight's' Opening Day Record!
Which means it's already made a shade just under one hundred million ($100M), which was my original entire-weekend prediction. (ETA: Or wait, the midnight screenings are included? $72M is a bit better. Although that's still more in 24 hours than Twilight made its entire first weekend.) I'm officially revising my estimates up to $170M now. (Well, in that case, let's take it down to $140M.)
You know, I'm not surprised, exactly. It was tracking above TDK all week, and it's already the highest-grossing advance ticket seller and midnight opening. And it may be that the mainstream won't turn out the rest of the weekend. But the official @Twilight account on Twitter has been RTing messages from fans saying that, as of mid-afternoon yesterday, they had already seen the movie four and five times. Four and five times. I understand, sociologically, psychologically, emotionally, financially, why it's happening. I'm not surprised, precisely. But I'm kind of astounded.
(Zomg e-book! The Annotated Movies in Fifteen Minutes: Wizards!)
Which means it's already made a shade just under one hundred million ($100M), which was my original entire-weekend prediction. (ETA: Or wait, the midnight screenings are included? $72M is a bit better. Although that's still more in 24 hours than Twilight made its entire first weekend.) I'm officially revising my estimates up to $170M now. (Well, in that case, let's take it down to $140M.)
You know, I'm not surprised, exactly. It was tracking above TDK all week, and it's already the highest-grossing advance ticket seller and midnight opening. And it may be that the mainstream won't turn out the rest of the weekend. But the official @Twilight account on Twitter has been RTing messages from fans saying that, as of mid-afternoon yesterday, they had already seen the movie four and five times. Four and five times. I understand, sociologically, psychologically, emotionally, financially, why it's happening. I'm not surprised, precisely. But I'm kind of astounded.
(Zomg e-book! The Annotated Movies in Fifteen Minutes: Wizards!)
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I mean yes, in the bottom-line atmosphere of Hollywood, money talks, but I stand resolute that no matter how much money the Twihards pump into the franchise, it will never reach the cultural importance of Batman or Harry Potter, so long as we have sane people like Cleo doing linkspam on topics such as "MOST HORRIFYING TWILIGHT MERCHANDISE."
Can you imagine Ledger!Joker's reaction to Sparkles Cullen?
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Shocked silence, I imagine.
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Perhaps it would be something like this (http://l16.deviantart.com/art/Shrimp-and-Champagne-118499458)?