No surprises here.  TWILIGHT SAGA: NEW MOON destroyed its competition its opening weekend.  According to the IMDB, the film will have pulled in an astounding $141 million dollars in its first three days.  The draw actually exceeded the projected take-in by $16 million, and beat out its next nearest competitor, the Sandra Bullock weepie THE BLINDSIDE by almost $100 million.

The big surprise is that the opening is not the biggest of all-time.  Though its presales set records by cruising past THE DARK KNIGHT, the second film in the TWILIGHT series opened #3 in history, behind the Bruce Wayne effort and Sam Raimi's SPIDERMAN 3.  Of greater interest will be how NEW MOON fares in the coming weeks.  DARK KNIGHT stayed on top for a long time, and had the benefit of a summer release;  even so, it came up well short of TITANIC.  I would not be surprised if NEW MOON has a huge second weekend, given that it's the four day Thanksgiving weekend upcoming.

Regardless, NEW MOON'S numbers are simultaneously impressive and expected.  Tons of fangirls running to see shirtless Native American teenage boys and longing stares between vampires and human got exactly what they wanted.  And hey... sadly, this makes NEW MOON the most successful opening for a horror film of all time.

See the box office results posted by IMDB here.

 --Phil Fasso