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Summit Entertainment has many reason to smile this morning, 72.7 million reasons to smile. That is the total that ‘The Twilight Saga: New Moon’ raked in on the opening day. Making it the highest grossing opening day total, ever, beating out the Dark Knight’s old record of $62.7 million.

‘New Moon’ has also beat out all of ‘Twilight’ records:

Twilight Opening Day total = $37 million vs. New Moon’s Opening Day of $72.7 million.

Twilight’s overall opening weekend total was $69.6 million. ‘New Moon’ has already beat that in its opening day.

Now in order of ‘New Moon’ to become the highest grossing opening weekend movie of all time, it will need to beat out Dark Knight’s record of $158.4 million. That means New Moon will need to bring in at least $87 million between Today (Sat) and Sun, so that would be $43.5 million each day. I think we can do that Twilighters.

Now, if ‘New Moon’ is to become the highest grossing film opening weekend film of 2009, it will need to beast ‘Transformers:Revenge of The Fallen’ $108.9 million. That I know we can do!!!

Michael Jackson was the King of Pop, but this weekend he was King of the Box Office!!

His ‘This Is It’ movie, made up completely of footage from rehearsals for the ‘This Is It’ tour brought in $21.3 million dollars this Halloween weekend ($101 million worldwide).  Earning the right to stay in theaters till the Thanksgiving weekend.

Last weeks #1 ‘Paranormal Activity’ fell to #2 with $16.5 million, with ‘Law Abiding Citizen’ at #3 with $7.3 million.

‘Couples Retreat’ is down to #4 with $6 million and rounding out the Top 5 is ‘ Saw VI’ with $5.5 million.

Weekends Top 10

1 Michael Jackson’s This Is It – $21,300,000
2 Paranormal Activity – $16,540,000
3 Law Abiding Citizen – $7,303,000
4 Couples Retreat – $6,097,000
5 Saw VI – $5,560,000
6 Where the Wild Things Are – $5,081,000
7 The Stepfather (2009) – $3,400,000
8 Astro Boy – $3,035,000
9 Amelia – $3,000,000
10 Cirque du Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant – $2,809,000

Opening this week (11/6/09) we’ve got ‘The Box’ with James Marsden and Cameron Diaz,  Jim Carrey’s ‘ A Christmas Carol’, ‘The Fourth Kind’, and George Clooney’s ‘The Men Who Stare at Goats’.

Looks like without Michael Bay at the helm, Megan Fox doesn’t fair so well.  In her first lead movie role in ‘Jennifer’s Boday’, she managed to land at # 5 with $6.8 million.

‘Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs’ however managed to land at #1 with $30.1 millon.

This weekends over big new release ‘The Imformant!’ with Matt Damen came in at #2 with $10.5 million and the Jennifer Aniston helmed ‘Love Happens’ cam in at #4 with $8.4 million.

Last weekends #1 Tyler Perry’s ‘I Can Do Bad All By Myself’ fell to #3 with $10 million.

Weekends Top 10:

1 – Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs – $30,100,000

2 – The Informant! – $10,545,000

3 – Tyler Perry’s I Can Do Bad All By Myself – $10,060,000

4 – Love Happens – $8,456,000

5 – Jennifer’s Body – $6,800,000

6 – 9 – $5,458,000

7 – Inglourious Basterds – $3,603,000

8 – All About Steve – $3,400,000

9 – Sorority Row – $2,489,000

10 – The Final Destination – $2,375,000

Next weekend we see the releases of ‘Pandorum’, The Bruce Willis ‘Surrogates’, and the remake of ‘Fame’.

PS.  As of today 9/20, we are only 60 days (2 months) till the release of  ’The Twilight Saga: New Moon’

The Summer Movie Season is officially over and we saw are fair share of blockbusters and let downs.  Who got crowned the champ you ask, well don’t worry, I’ve done the math for you!!!

Summer 2009 Top Movie Champs!!!

Transformers:Revenge of the Fallen: $399.4 ($830.7 Worldwide)
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince: $294.3 ($917.3 Worldwide)
Up: $289.6
The Hangover: $270.2
Star Trek: $256.7
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs: $193.3
X-Men Origins: Wolverine: $ 179.9
Night at the Musem: Battle of the… – $176.5
The Proposal: $160.2
Angels & Demons: $133.4

So there you have it, in the Domestic box office Transformers was the clear winner, however when we go Worldwide Harry Potter comes in at #1!!

Stay tuned this weekend for the Fall Movie Calendar!!

Final Destination beat out Michael Myer for the number one movie with week by taking in $28.3 million this weekend, this also makes its the highest grossing open weekend for the series.

Rob Zombie’s ‘Halloween II’ came in at #3 with $17.4 million.  It’s predisor ‘Halloween (2007) opened to the tune of $26.3 million 2yrs ago.

Last weekend’s number one ‘Inglourious Basterds’ fell one spot to #2 with $20 million, this brings it total domestic total to $73.7 million.

Rounding out the top 5 are District 9 at #4 with $10.7 million and G.I. Joe at #5 with $8 million.

Weekend Top 10

1 – The Final Destination – $28,335,000
2 – Inglourious Basterds – $20,041,000
3 – Halloween 2 (2009) – $17,405,000
4 – District 9 – $10,700,000
5 – G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra – $8,000,000
6 – Julie & Julia – $7,400,000
7 – The Time Traveler’s Wife – $6,745,000
8 – Shorts – $4,870,000
9 – Taking Woodstock – $3,749,000
10 – G-Force – $2,845,000

Next week is Labor Day Weekend, which usally marks the end of the summer season!!  Next weekends release’s are the new Bradley Cooper (The Hangover) Comedy ‘All About Steve’, and from Mike Judge (Office Space) ‘Extract’.

Check back later this week of for the list of the Top 10 grossing movies from the Summer movie season!!