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All the hype surrounding the Twilight vampire romance sequel is scoring big at the box office, with industry reports estimating that it took in the largest opening-day receipts on record.
Summit Entertainment's The Twilight Saga: New Moon, which opened on Friday raked in $72.7 million (BD27.43 million) on its first day, outpacing Batman sequel The Dark Knight and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, according to estimates by the Hollywood.com industry website.
The Dark Knight brought in $67.2 million (BD25.35 million) on its first day in 2008, while Transformers snatched $62 million (BD23.39 million) on its opening day earlier this year.
Female-targeted New Moon already took in $26.3 million (BD9.92 million) for its midnight showing alone, beating best marks set by The Dark Knight - $18.4 million (BD6.94 million) on July 18, 2008 - and the sixth Harry Potter film, Harry Potter And The Half Blood Prince, which earned $22.2 million
(BD8.37 million) earlier this year. Hollywood.com predicted the vampire flick was set to join only a dozen other films to have sold $100 million dollars worth of tickets in a single weekend.
It opens tomorrow night in Bahrain.
