Box-office news
Estimated ticket sales for the third film in the saga "Twilight" ("Eclipse") have today been revised downward for the second time in three days, although the vampire supposedly "love story" continues to attract a large number of lovers of mystical sappy melodramas.
The movie "Twilight. Saga. Eclipse" has earned about $ 82.5 million during the 4-day weekend in the U.S. on Independence Day, with the general taxes account for 175.3 million dollars since its release the film on Wednesday.
According to recent estimates, "Eclipse" lags behind its predecessor, "New Moon", about $ 4 million. Twilight. Saga: New Moon has earned $ 179 million for the first six days in November. The company Summit Entertainment, distributor of the film, hoping for a much larger numbers. On Saturday, it representatives predicted $ 106 million of fees for the first four days of the show and 6-day haul to
$ 199 million. Justifying the studio said that it was hard to predict what will be the indicators of the weekend, as the main audience of the film - young girls - was diverted festivities on July 4.
It is not clear, however, what is there to worry citizens. "Eclipse" in any event pay for itself, and not just because the film cost only $ 68 million guys from Summit Entertainment is also highly satisfied with the fact that more male viewers have come to the cinema to see the continuing adventures of teenage Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart), vampire Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson) and the werewolf Jacob Black (Taylor Lautner). Men already make up about one-third of the audience, compared to twenty percent for "New Moon".
How much has collected the film around the world, excluding America, it's not yet clear. On Sunday Studio said that the film gained not less than $ 100 million in box office in 42 countries.
The champion number two of box offices was the family film "The Last Airbender", which has earned quite a lot despite the fact that it had received completely destroying critics. Screen adaptation of Nickelodeon cartoon series, directed by M. Night Shyamalan price of $ 150 million earned 53.2 million dollars for a 4-day period. Including debut Thursday, it total fee is 70.5 million dollars.
Pixar animated cartoon "Toy Story 3" - considered by many one of the best films of the year - has received over the past weekend, 42.2 million dollars with the total charges were $ 301 million dollars making it the third top cashed film of this year, after "Alice in Wonderland" ($ 334 million) and "Iron Man 2" ($ 308 million). In the world "Toys" has earned an extra 153.2 million.
Rounding out the top five of two films that were released over the weekend, and each of which has already managed to fall into two positions: "Grown Ups" by Adam Sandler with $ 26.5 million and "Knight and Day" with Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz with a $ 14 million. Their final charges rose to
$85.1 million and 49.3 million respectively.