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Per @Larry411 & Pronetworks

Summit Entertainment now officially estimates that The Twilight Saga: New Moon took in $140.7M from 4024 theaters this weekend. This puts the film in third place for all-time opening weekends, behind The Dark Knight ($158.4M) and Spider-Man 3 ($151.1M) and ahead of Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest ($135.6M). The film also hauled in $158.8M internationally. This was the widest opening of all time for an independent film and the biggest ever box office opening for an indie.

There was a 41% drop from Friday to Saturday, about the exact same percentage decrease Twilight had one year ago (down 40.8% Saturday, down 41.9% Sunday). Another 40% drop going into Sunday, based on advance sales, tracking polls, and other industry formulas, brings the weekend total to $140.7M.

However keep in mind, these are the FINAL numbers!! Final numbers will come in tomorrow, so there is still a chance to beat The Dark Knight or Spider Man 3.

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!!!

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Wasn’t too sure how this wasn’t going to turn out, but Holy Crap it looks awesome!!! Rob looks pretty HOT!!!

I hear this is playing in front of New Moon!!

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’.