Twilight's going to keep a lot of people up all night.
Across the country, zaidi than 1,100 midnight Friday screenings were reported sold out. In Los Angeles, pairs of tickets were hawked for upwards of $50 on Craigslist. On Facebook, members were planning their opening-night wardrobe.
Suffice to say, Team Edward T-shirts—and the mashabiki wearing them—will be out in force.
"I think the opening siku is going to be huge," says Bruce Nash of the box-office data site, the Numbers.
But how huge? That's a trickier answer.
"There are certain sinema that are hard to gauge," says box-office analyst Paul Dergarabedian of Media kwa Numbers. "This is a weird one."
While there's no shortage of buzz about the stars, led kwa the lion-maned Robert Pattinson, and no shortage of book sales for the Stephenie Meyer series on which the film's based, there's also no box-office precedent for a gothic vampire flick aimed at teenage girls.
"We haven't seen a movie for this specific demographic ever," says Jeff Bock of the tracking firm Exhibitor Relations.
Projections, accordingly, vary. On the plus side for Summit Entertainment, the indie studio looking for its breakthrough blockbuster, they're varying on the high side. Especially for a movie made for a Hollywood-modest $37 million.
Dergarabedian thinks a $30-40 million Friday-Sunday debut is possible. Bock wouldn't be surprised kwa an opening of $30 million—or $70 million. Nash sits in the middle, calling for a $60 million-ish debut.
None of this means Bolt won't reassert the talking-dog movie's dominance, and open No. 1. None of this means Twilight will make like High School Musical 3: Senior Year, and keep filling seats after this weekend.
All this means is nobody knows anything for sure, except for maybe this: Twilight's highlight is going to come early.
Nearly 600 Friday midnight screenings were reported sold out as of Wednesday kwa the ticket service Fandango. Just under 550 were reported cleaned out as of today kwa MovieTickets.com. (Fandango and E! Online are both owned kwa Comcast.)
Overall, box-office watchers say some 2,000 opening-day screenings are already booked.
Nash isn't expecting Twilight to pull a Dark Knight, which bolted out of the gate with a record-smashing $67.2 million opening siku in July, but he's not ruling out a debut along the hemlines of Sex and the City, which opened eyes with a $26.7 million Friday in May.
"I think there's a core audience that wants to see the new movie no matter what," says Nash.
And movie reviews, which haven't been overwhelmingly kind to Twilight, won't matter, says Dergabedian.
"You tell me one teen girl who's going to care a lick about a bad review," he says.
Sneak a peek at the Twilight phenomenon in our updated gallery!
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Across the country, zaidi than 1,100 midnight Friday screenings were reported sold out. In Los Angeles, pairs of tickets were hawked for upwards of $50 on Craigslist. On Facebook, members were planning their opening-night wardrobe.
Suffice to say, Team Edward T-shirts—and the mashabiki wearing them—will be out in force.
"I think the opening siku is going to be huge," says Bruce Nash of the box-office data site, the Numbers.
But how huge? That's a trickier answer.
"There are certain sinema that are hard to gauge," says box-office analyst Paul Dergarabedian of Media kwa Numbers. "This is a weird one."
While there's no shortage of buzz about the stars, led kwa the lion-maned Robert Pattinson, and no shortage of book sales for the Stephenie Meyer series on which the film's based, there's also no box-office precedent for a gothic vampire flick aimed at teenage girls.
"We haven't seen a movie for this specific demographic ever," says Jeff Bock of the tracking firm Exhibitor Relations.
Projections, accordingly, vary. On the plus side for Summit Entertainment, the indie studio looking for its breakthrough blockbuster, they're varying on the high side. Especially for a movie made for a Hollywood-modest $37 million.
Dergarabedian thinks a $30-40 million Friday-Sunday debut is possible. Bock wouldn't be surprised kwa an opening of $30 million—or $70 million. Nash sits in the middle, calling for a $60 million-ish debut.
None of this means Bolt won't reassert the talking-dog movie's dominance, and open No. 1. None of this means Twilight will make like High School Musical 3: Senior Year, and keep filling seats after this weekend.
All this means is nobody knows anything for sure, except for maybe this: Twilight's highlight is going to come early.
Nearly 600 Friday midnight screenings were reported sold out as of Wednesday kwa the ticket service Fandango. Just under 550 were reported cleaned out as of today kwa MovieTickets.com. (Fandango and E! Online are both owned kwa Comcast.)
Overall, box-office watchers say some 2,000 opening-day screenings are already booked.
Nash isn't expecting Twilight to pull a Dark Knight, which bolted out of the gate with a record-smashing $67.2 million opening siku in July, but he's not ruling out a debut along the hemlines of Sex and the City, which opened eyes with a $26.7 million Friday in May.
"I think there's a core audience that wants to see the new movie no matter what," says Nash.
And movie reviews, which haven't been overwhelmingly kind to Twilight, won't matter, says Dergabedian.
"You tell me one teen girl who's going to care a lick about a bad review," he says.
Sneak a peek at the Twilight phenomenon in our updated gallery!
··· THEY alisema WHAT? Get today's most ametoa maoni stories now at www.eonline.comTwilight Zones Out AC/DCTwilight SequelizesTwilight mashabiki Take to the StreetsTwilight's Happy HalloweenTwilight's World Premiere Rocks Los AngelesAre wewe Ready for zaidi Twilight?
Summit Entertainment seizes up the inayofuata three books
LOCATION: Forks, cont.
THE SKINNY: Despite TWILIGHT not even being out in theaters yet, Summit Entertainment knows they have something major on their hands.
The studio has scooped up the rights to the inayofuata three novels in Stephenie Meyer's teen vampire series. Not only that, but TWILIGHT screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg is already planning to write scripts based on the sekunde and third books, NEW MOON and ECLIPSE. A writer has not yet been attached to the fourth book, BREAKING DAWN.
TWILIGHT, which introduces audiences to the relationship between regular teenage girl, Bella, and a vampire, Edward, will be out in theaters this Friday.
OK EVERYONE IS LIKE TOTALLY HEAD OVER HEALS FOR EDWARD AND WHEN ALL COMES DOWN TO THE FACTS EDWARD JUST LEFT HER WITHOUTH THE APPROPRATE GOODBYE. JACOB WHOS WAS THERE FOR HER ALL THOSES MONTHS EDWARD WAS GONE. THE PROTECTED HER AND LET HER IN ON HIS WEREWOLF SECRET WHILE MAINTAINIGN A REALATIONSHIP WITH HER EVEN THOUGH HIS mbwa mwitu PACHK alisema NO. THATS TELLS ALOT ABOUT WHAT KIND OF FRIEND JACOB IS AND THEN OUT OF NOWHERE EDWARD COMES BACK INTO HER LIFE.WAT A LOOSER. AND THEN BECAUSE OF THE TREATY ITS LIEK EDWARD EXPECTS BELLA TO JUST STOP BEING JACOBS FRIEND. EDWARD JUST NEEDS TO TRUST BELLA I MEAN WATS CHANGES NOW SHES KNOWN HIS SECRET SINCE BEFORE EDWARD CAME BACK AND THEN SOME.
Bella: How old have wewe been 17?
Edward: A while.
Bella: How long is a while?
Yesterday when I started re-reading twilight i noticed that Bella asks Edward that questiion when she goes out to chajio, chakula cha jioni with him...
But in the first trailer she says it to him in the woods.
Right now i am worried that the movie isn't going to be as good as the book. If wewe compare the trailer to the book i bet wewe will find much zaidi of messed up scenes.
Please leave me acomment on what wewe think about this.... because I am kind of pissed that Stephanie would allow the director to change everything...
Well wewe know maybe im speaking to soon with out seeing the movie....but thats what I think.
Edward: A while.
Bella: How long is a while?
Yesterday when I started re-reading twilight i noticed that Bella asks Edward that questiion when she goes out to chajio, chakula cha jioni with him...
But in the first trailer she says it to him in the woods.
Right now i am worried that the movie isn't going to be as good as the book. If wewe compare the trailer to the book i bet wewe will find much zaidi of messed up scenes.
Please leave me acomment on what wewe think about this.... because I am kind of pissed that Stephanie would allow the director to change everything...
Well wewe know maybe im speaking to soon with out seeing the movie....but thats what I think.
A lot of people just go to the maoni section to advertise. They don't care what the makala says-they just pick the one with the most viewers so they will get attention. Like the girl who wrote Twilight Fansites. kwa cherry6chick. She wants zaidi viewers so she goes to makala and puts:hey-you guys like twilight? well check out this sight:www.freewebs.com/twilighttrailer. Tell your friends!:) I thought it was a good idea because it got me to go to it so i started advertising on my first makala called Who Is Better? on page 7 on What's Hot. All of a sudden i started to get all these maoni telling everybody who the liked better. I told everybody there wewe can choose. Every mwezi Ill anounce the winner for that month. Anyways...on this sight wewe can put an makala and/or sight that wewe think is worth reading!
Twilight teaser trailer will kick Indiana Jones teaser trailer no.1 spot on myspace most viewed trailers.Twilight teaser trailer scored zaidi than 2 million maoni in 3 days!
2 zaidi million maoni needed to be at no.1!
COME ON TWILIGHERS!
link
open it in different windows to save time and all!
keep refreshing and mute the volume if wewe get sick of it!
LET'S onyesha THEM TWILIGTERS!
total maoni 8:46 EST: 2,403,785 views!!!
11:27 EST: 2,438,042 million views
2 zaidi million maoni needed to be at no.1!
COME ON TWILIGHERS!
link
open it in different windows to save time and all!
keep refreshing and mute the volume if wewe get sick of it!
LET'S onyesha THEM TWILIGTERS!
total maoni 8:46 EST: 2,403,785 views!!!
11:27 EST: 2,438,042 million views
hujambo ladies! Ok, I wrote this the other siku while I was at work. I had my head down on the desk, sat up, wrote it, and put my head back down. lol I ask that wewe don't use it without my permission, as it is my original work. But here is a little poem I wrote, that I thought wewe Twilight obsessed mashabiki might like. I kind of pictured Edward after I wrote it and reread it. There are lots of people (including people who wewe might be dating right now) that this can apply to. Enjoy and tell me what wewe think!
Young girls think of upendo and picture a prince.
Women, who have loved and been hurt see not a prince but the truth.
Just a man, imperfect and unsure.
But it's those memories of Prince Charming that make them keep loving, even without hope.
Taleah Elizabeth Cox
April 12,2008
Young girls think of upendo and picture a prince.
Women, who have loved and been hurt see not a prince but the truth.
Just a man, imperfect and unsure.
But it's those memories of Prince Charming that make them keep loving, even without hope.
Taleah Elizabeth Cox
April 12,2008