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What’s going to happen this July 4th weekend? Moviegoers are going to wake up and recharge the box office, thanks to the potent power of the Twilight franchise, writes Anthony D’Alessandro, who digs deep into the Twilight numbers. Yes, Eclipse, the third Twilight Saga installment, could challenge Spider-Man 2‘s $180.2 million opening record, set back in 2004.
Summit Entertainment’s The Twilight Saga: Eclipse is about to inject a blood transfusion into the anemic summer box office.
Industry expectations vary: at the low end, Eclipse should easily outstrip in six days the opening weekend of The Twilight Saga: New Moon, which swooned $142.8 million last November, the third highest three-day opener of all time. At the high end, Eclipse could yield a sanguine $160 to $180 million. In order to topple Sony’s Spider-Man 2‘s Independence Day opening record, Eclipse would have to exceed $180.1 million in six days.
Among the highest-grossers during their first six days are Dark Knight, which continues to hold the record: $222.2 million. New Moon is farther down on the six-day list with $178.9 million.
Eclipse launches Tuesday night in select cities at 12:01 am before opening wide in 4,408 theaters Wednesday. By Friday, Summit will increase Eclipse’s theater count to 4,437. For New Moon, midnight showings proved to be a barometer of the weekend to come, as hordes of Twihards shelled out a record $26.3 million to see the film at 3,514 venues when it bowed on November 20.
The calendar favors Eclipse, as July 4th falls on a Sunday this year, giving Eclipse an extra day to play Monday, when most folks are off work. Spider-Man 2 capitalized on a similar spoil back in 2004. Weather can make also make a difference. While Saturday is expected to show stronger ticket sales than Sunday, rain fuels attendance. And heat waves around the country don’t bode well for holiday moviegoing.
Because the July 4th weekend bounces around, it historically clicks in less ticket sales than the first three days of the Memorial Day weekend. It’s not unusual for the weekends preceding or following a July 4th frame to gross more money. Studios are crossing their fingers that this year’s July 4th frame outperforms the dismal Memorial Day weekend four-day returns: $184.2 million for the top 12 films.
Given that the first two entries in the Twilight vampire saga worked as Thanksgiving must-sees, why would Summit break precedent with Eclipse? It’s a no-brainer: To make Eclipse available to the widest possible audience. “A fall release is limited by the mercy of school calendars,” says Summit domestic distribution president Richard Fay. “As we looked to expand the audience, we found summer to be the right place with this picture. In terms of midnight shows, people don’t need to be concerned about going to school the next day.”
And Summit went with a Wednesday bow instead of Friday in order to distance Eclipse from other films in the market. Box office analysts show Eclipse tracking strongly among women over males. Here’s the breakdown: Women under 25 (49%), over 25 (25%), guys under 25 (13%) and over 25 (13%). New Moon exit polls showed 80% female with 50% under the age of 21. Summit is trying to lure more men to see Eclipse.
The only other film that dares to bow against Eclipse is M. Night Shyamalan’s The Last Airbender from Paramount, based on the Nickelodeon animated TV show. (Check back later today for further analysis.) Currently, across four quadrants, competitors see the film, which was retrofitted at the last minute in 3-D, tracking heavily among males under 25 (21%) and over 25 (26%). Females are the minority: under 25 (15%) and over (12%). Airbender looks to bow in more than 3,000 theaters
While the Tomatometer hasn’t collected all the reviews yet for Eclipse, it’s currently ranking 44% rotten. although some early reviews suggest it’s the best of the three. The first Twilight scored a 50% fresh, while New Moon went 27% rotten. In any case, it’s unlikely that Twilight fans care what critics have to say.
It’s a given that with its modest $68-million budget, Eclipse will be enormously profitable. While that figure has upticked over the last two installments, this is tentpole filmmaking at bargain-basement prices. In fact, this franchise tends to make most of its budget back on the first day of release: New Moon cost $50 million and posted $72.7 million, the highest opening-day record of all time, while the first Twilight, which cost $37 million, rang up $36 million in its first 24 hours.
Anyone worried about the fate of Bella, Edward, Jacob and the rest of the “Twilight” gang after the moody blues of movie No. 2 can breathe a sigh of relief. “The Twilight Saga: Eclipse” is back with all of the lethal and loving bite it was meant to have: The kiss of the vampire is cooler, the werewolf is hotter, the battles are bigger and the choices are, as everyone with a pulse knows by now, life-changing.
It’s really all because the kids are growing up. Not just Bella, Edward and Jacob, though they’re doing their share of hitting major milestones what with their love triangle more fraught than ever, but Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner who finally, finally have figured out how to breathe life into the characters first created by publishing phenom Stephenie Meyer.
No doubt the thanks in large part should go to David Slade, the latest director in the hot seat and just what the soap opera doctor ordered. Though “Eclipse” is not high art, the “Twilight” series does have its own sort of mystical magic in the way it blends teenage angst with epic political conflicts (vampire-land has just as many turf wars and ridiculously rigid rules as the real world). Slade finds a way to blend the street-smart edge he found in “Hard Candy” with the dark irony of “30 Days of Night” to bring some serious fun to “Eclipse.” About time someone mined the humor in these inter-species affairs of the heart….
As the movie opens, Victoria (Bryce Dallas Howard), the flame-haired villainess set on destroying Bella, is out creating an army of newborns to take with her into battle. They’re hungry little suckers under the unruly control of delicious new hunk Riley (Xavier Samuel). They’re also extremely messy about their feeding needs, much to the growing dismay of the living locals in Seattle and the Cullen vampire clan back in Forks.
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Meanwhile, Bella (Stewart) has a few other things on her mind, like high school graduation and the whole vampire wannabe issue — with her dreaded 18th birthday looming, she’ll soon be a year older than Edward (Pattinson), and she wants some of that special serum that will halt aging in its tracks (but then don’t we all).
If, for a moment, you take the “should she or shouldn’t she become a vampire” question off the table, Bella’s issues are as old as time itself: Who does she love, is she ready to commit forever and what is she willing to sacrifice for it? That’s a lot to chew on, but then everyone here has teeth, including screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg, doing her best yet to channel Meyer while adding some much-needed wryness to the proceedings.
Everyone is also very concerned about Bella’s virtue: Her dad Charlie (Billy Burke) wants her to be careful, Edward wants her to wait until they’re married and Jacob (Lautner) just wants her to wait.
While Bella sorts through all of her “who do you love?” conflicts, the newborns close in, a few of the ancient and unpredictable Italian Volturi enforcers show up, leaving Edward and Jacob to form an uneasy alliance to protect their damsel in distress.
The good news is that all that tension helps “Eclipse” eclipse its predecessors. There is a new tenderness and sweetness that Stewart brings to her relationships — more playful with Pattinson, more affectionate with Burke (especially when Charlie tries to have “the sex talk”), and more intense with Lautner. Bella doesn’t want to let down anyone, and Stewart makes sure she doesn’t. But it’s Lautner, in particular, who has grown, giving Jacob an emotional interior nearly as hard-packed as those abs, which are very much on display.
Since the swoon factor is significant, Slade and director of photography Javier Aguirresarobe are ever mindful of the power of those faces, letting the camera go in for the close-up kill whenever it can. As for the rest of the landscape, the wonderful Aguirresarobe (“Vicky Cristina Barcelona” and “The Sea Inside”) knows how to do luminous, and Slade has given him more room to move than he got in “New Moon.” “Eclipse” benefits from it throughout, including the rain-drenched lethal nights in Seattle and the extensive vampire smack downs.
The action comes in fast and furious waves. Having the werewolves getting their fur ruffled helps since your typical vampire battle is basically a bloodless sport. Dead vampires, at least as imagined in “The Twilight Saga,” have the look of broken Greek statues in a vandalized museum, which kind of takes the sting out of things and not in a good way. The same goes for the historical flashbacks that fill in werewolf lore and more about vampire Jasper (Jackson Rathbone). Enough already.
But just when you think everything is going to come apart at the seams, someone remembers the money shot, and the screen fills with those fine-boned faces of Edward and Bella, the music soars and, gulp, they … tune in next time kids, this soap opera’s a long way from over.
I just got back from watching the midnight showing of Eclipse.. it is about 230am here on Guam and i wanted to share my experience with you all.
In one word: AMAZING
Everything about this movie I loved… everyone played their characters with the utmost respect.
Kristen was amazing…. better than she was in twilight and new moon… she is growing more into bella’s character and she totally makes it her own. Kristen was everything emotionally… she did not disappoint me at all.
Rob was, of course, the ever lovable and dreamy edward… rob did so incredible with his fight scenes, i am so proud of him… the scenes between him and kristen.. OMG… made me melt… sooo hot and touching and endearing. I love Rob.. and he just makes me want to watch Eclipse again and again.
Taylor was great as always…. still the hothead with the always exposed abs.. this time whenever they showed his abs, it was done with taste. And it got some screams from fangirls in my theater.
The leg hitch scene was HOT!
The tent scene was interesting… it was nice seeing edward and jacob “bond”.
The proposal scene…. WOWWW !!! made me almost cry from happiness..
I LOVED ECLIPSE…. and i hope you all love it too.
This is all just me…. TEAM EDWARD
Thank you to FLiPPyROBSTEN for sharing her review on Rob’s IMDB message board from Guam!
The current number for Eclipse, the third movie in the Twilight Saga franchise opening Wednesday is 4,416 theaters in North America. That passes Iron Man 2 which scored 4,380 venues. No word yet on the number of locations screening the film at 12:01 AM tomorrow
It’s been a long promotional road for the stars of Eclipse, but their movie finally arrives in theaters at midnight! Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner have had their hands full over the past few days with one last press push, and now we’ll see if all their hard work pays off at the weekend box office. Their film has already become the year’s top advance ticket seller, and additional screenings have been added. It has potential to be the highest-grossing installment of the Twilight series so far, but tell us — are you planning to see a midnight screening of Eclipse?
While some producers dream about winning big on one certified box office bonanza, producer Wyck Godfrey has hit the jackpot with two: a little movie called Twilight and its follow-up New Moon. More than $1 billion in box office totals later, Godfrey is back with the third installment of the vampire love saga, Eclipse, which opens on Wednesday. The hoopla will continue through the final book in the Stephenie Meyer series, Breaking Dawn, which has been split into two movies, the first scheduled for November 2011. Godfrey talked to TIME about shirtless werewolves and the real-world effects of vampire-human relationships.
Everyone is talking about whatever is going on between Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart. Is that good for business?
Do you want the honest answer? I haven’t even thought of it that way.
That’s not the honest answer.
It really is. I honestly don’t think of it in terms of business. It doesn’t affect our core business at all. The thing I do think about is, Oh my God, I hope they stay together. Because it could be awkward on set in the next movie if they have a huge falling out. It’s like, Wow, they have to portray this love story through two more movies. God, I hope they stay together; please stay together. That’s what affects my day-to-day.
But you walk by newsstands and it’s a publicist’s dream: they are on every cover.
I don’t feel it’s out there anymore. Do people still report on it? If you look at people who have a stable personal life, the rags get tired of them. I think we’re heading to that place where they are together and that’s their life and we better find someone new to create drama out of.
In 2009, Twilight was the #2 search of the year behind Michael Jackson on Yahoo!.
As with so many other subcultures, the Internet has allowed fans of bloodsuckers to share their interest, as evidenced in Yahoo! searches for “Twilight” characters, Bella’s wedding, music, spoilers and even vampire baby names.
The vampire hype has continued into the first half of 2010 leading up to the June 30th premiere of the third Twilight movie, “Eclipse”.
In the past 30 days, Twilight has been in the top 1,000 searches on Yahoo!, 72% of those searches are from females and 40% from those under 20.
The older crowds are still interested in all things Twilight, as 22% of searches come from those 35 and older.
New Twilight trends:
Searches on Yahoo! show that fans are taking their love of Twilight to the extremes.
– Twilight tattoos and “twilight tattoo ideas” are spiking on Yahoo!, searches are up 640% this week.
– Cookbook? Checkbook? We are seeing searches for “twilight cookbook” and “twilight checks” on Yahoo!.
– Birthday Party: “twilight birthday themes” for those planning birthday parties. Searches include “twilight party favors”, “twilight cake”, “twilight cupcakes.”
– Personality Quiz: People are interested in finding out which character they are most like and searches are spiking for “Twilight personality quizzes” online.
– Contacts: Searches are spiking for “twilight contacts” for the eyes.
– Scrubs?: Searches are spiking on Yahoo! for “Twilight scrubs.” We are even seeing search for “Twilight fabric.”
– Music of Twilight: the “Eclipse soundtrack” is spiking 200% this week and we are seeing searches for lyrics from Twilight songs. Searches for “Robert Pattinson song” and “Edward Cullen song” are spiking on Yahoo!.
Team Edward vs. Team Jacob
For all that talk about the Wolf boy winning the affections away from his glittering rival, it takes a lot to shake the loyalty to Edward Cullen — and Robert Pattinson for that matter.
In the past three years, Jacob Black (and Taylor Lautner himself) has only surpassed Edward Cullen (and Robert Pattinson) in searches on Yahoo! for the three weeks around the premiere of “New Moon.”
Forget the wolves — Pattinson has to watch out for the cougars. While 14% of searchers seek him on Yahoo! are teens, females well into their 50s are intrigued by Pattinson.
And, he gets three times the searches on Yahoo! compared to Lautner. Meanwhile, the Wolf Pack pup pulls in a much younger following: 1 out of 5 are preteens. And interestingly 26% of searches are from males.
Which Twilight star is top searched? Kristen Stewart gets nearly double the searches of Robert Pattinson.
New Vampires:
People are trying to find out who the new people are in Eclipse, we are seeing searches on Yahoo! for “new vampire in Twilight” and “new Twilight vampires” up 200% this week. People are searching for the Twilight character’s full names on Yahoo!
Top regions searching for Twilight in the past 30 days:
All week, we’re releasing episodes of “Cast & Filmmaker Chats” via The Twilight Saga podcast on iTunes.
These are casual conversations between actor & filmmaker about working together & making ECLIPSE.
Everyone had a ton of fun with this and there’s some great insight into the creation of the film. Here are the groups that participated and we will release 8 episodes in total.
We hope you enjoy!
- Dakota Fanning, Bryce Dallas Howard, Xavier Samuel, Wyck Godfrey (producer), David Slade (director)
- Peter Facinelli, Elizabeth Reaser, Nikki Reed, Wyck Godfrey (producer), David Slade (director)
- Kellan Lutz, Jackson Rathbone, Ashley Greene, Wyck Godfrey (producer), David Slade (director)
- Chaske Spencer, Alex Miraz, Julia Jones, Wyck Godfrey (producer), David Slade (director)
Moon & I were catching up on an episode of “the Soup” last night and did a DOUBLE TAKE when we were fast-forwarding a commercial for an E! special airing TONIGHT. We rewound it right away, hoping what we thought we saw was true and thankfully, we were NOT disappointed. Tonight, on E! at 8 pm, they are airing A Twilight Destiny where ALL the secrets of your forbidden love affair will be revealed and it will be confirmed that ROBSTEN ARE OFFICIALLY ON!!!!!!! Apparently people STILL care (other than me & Moon- who care the most)
The third Twilight film, Eclipse, opens tomorrow, but you can save yourself two hours and $10 by checking out the more satisfying 8-Bit Twilight Eclipse Interactive YouTube game instead.Created by Benny and Rafi Fine with animation by Doc Octoroc, the 8-Bit Twilight Eclipse Interactive YouTube game uses a series of clips and YouTube annotations to guide you through the story of Bella, Edward, and Jacob’s ultimate showdown with that evil red-haired girl from the first movie, now played by Ron Howard’s daughter.
Not that I’ve been paying attention.
It’s an entertaining romp that pokes fun at some of the more hilarious aspects of the Twilight Saga, including…well, just about everything.
I’d love to see this turned into a real 8-bit game. My only complaint is that every vote for Team Jacob ends with a game over screen. Not fair!
Send an email to Michael Fahey, the author of this post, at fahey@kotaku.com.
Will Bella end up with Edward or Jacob? You are in control as you try to survive the story of Twilight: Eclipse in this 8-Bit Interactive Adventure Game!
The beginning of “Eclipse,” the third episode of “The Twilight Saga,” finds Bella and Edward (Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson, of course) cuddling passionately — though chastely, of course — in a meadow full of wildflowers. The day is just sunny enough to bring out the frosty sparkle in Edward’s skin, but not bright enough to kill either him or the brooding, minor-key mood. Bella is reciting Robert Frost’s poem “Fire and Ice,” about competing notions of how the world will end. Supposedly it’s for an English paper, but who is Bella kidding? “From what I’ve tasted of desire,” she intones, “I hold with those who favor fire.”
She should know. Desire might as well be the brand name for the blend of natural and artificial flavors that infuses this wildly popular series of books and films. “Eclipse,” the middle installment — Stephenie Meyer’s four books will be made into five movies — raises the level of romantic intensity considerably, and also nudges Bella’s heretofore somewhat abstract longings decisively in the direction of physical lust. Sitting at the apex of a romantic triangle, drawn increasingly toward both the cold, undead Edward and her warm-blooded and shirtless werewolf friend, Jacob (Taylor Lautner), Bella understands the elemental dichotomy of Frost’s verse in ways that Yankee poet might never have intended.Her predicament is both the stuff of high, swooning melodrama — the preferred “Twilight” mode — and traditional romantic comedy. “Face it,” Jacob deadpans, looking right at his wan, shirt-wearing rival for Bella’s affections, “I’m much hotter than you.” And judging from the noise and temperature in the theater where I saw “Eclipse,” a lot of “Twilight” fans (including the 14-year-old girl I took with me as an expert witness) agree. Maybe I was in a Team Jacob stronghold, or maybe the whole goth-emo-bloodsucker craze is starting to wane, but the producers of the “Twilight” movies may face a bit of a dilemma in the next two chapters if audience sentiment turns against the eternal love of Edward and Bella in favor of the slightly more conventional mammalian match between Bella and Jacob.Jacob makes a pretty strong case, both that he is more suitable for Bella —“With me, it would be as easy as breathing,” he says — and, more boldly, that she really wants him, even if she can’t admit as much to herself. And while there are the usual arguments about which of these guys is better able to protect Bella, what is really at stake is each one’s theoretical ability to satisfy her.I say theoretical because the sex appeal of the whole “Twilight” enterprise is based on the impossibility of actual sex. “Dad, I’m a virgin,” Bella tells her anxious father, Charlie (Billy Burke), surely the only person in the English-speaking world to whom this comes as news.The dangers of male sexuality symbolized by Edward’s and Jacob’s monster natures have always loomed large in Ms. Meyer’s “Twilight” world. A man’s unconstrained appetite (the vampire’s thirst) or unchecked anger (the wolf’s predatory rage) poses a potentially fatal risk for a woman, and what makes both Jacob and Edward good guys is their willingness to constrain their powerful innate impulses in the name of love. There exist women, like Victoria (Bryce Dallas Howard), the villainess, and Edward’s charming sister Alice (Ashley Greene), who are vampires, and also at least one, Leah (Julia Jones), who runs with the wolves, but this does not really change the essential sexual politics of the story.Not that these are as straightforward as they might seem. Those who mock (or praise) the pro-abstinence message of “The Twilight Saga” tend to miss the way the movies in particular embrace the sensuous pleasure of sublimation with the kind of fervor you usually find only in old Hollywood or present-day Bollywood entertainments. The consummation of Edward and Bella’s love — which will come after their marriage, at Edward’s insistence and in spite of Bella’s plea for earlier action — is likely to be a big disappointment. Maybe not for them, but I suspect for whatever Team Edward diehards are still around by then.But that is a matter for a future review. “Eclipse,” directed by David Slade (who follows Catherine Hardwicke and Chris Weitz and whose previous credits include “30 Days of Night” and “Hard Candy”), is a more robustly entertaining film than either of its predecessors. The previous entry, “New Moon,” was a sustained (and to some viewers, tedious) exercise in delayed gratification. You had to wait a long time to see Mr. Lautner unveil his pectoral muscles or morph into a wolf, and Mr. Pattinson vanished altogether. This time we are treated to nicely costumed flashbacks to vaguely defined earlier eras, album-cover tableaus of the Cullen clan and the Volturi (including Dakota Fanning but minus Michael Sheen, for now) and some moderately thrilling if visually muddy fight sequences.If there is a bit more humor on display here — some of it evidence that an element of self-conscious self-mockery is sneaking into the franchise — there is also more violence, and, true to the film’s title, a deeper intimation of darkness. What there isn’t, as usual, is much in the way of good acting, with the decisive and impressive exception of Ms. Stewart, who can carry a close-up about as well as anyone in movies today.Mr. Lautner still seems to have recently escaped from a high school cheerleading squad somewhere, and Mr. Pattinson’s pout conveys not the existential angst of a lovelorn immortal, but rather the peevishness of a guy who just lost a Greta Garbo lookalike contest — for the third time in a row! — to his own girlfriend.
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THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN (PART TWO)
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THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN (PART ONE)
