'Twilight' bites boxoffice at #1, 'Bolt' & Bond go for 2

[Rex Dopey24]

Originally Posted by sir clinksalot

^ Yeah, for some reason I just couldn't get into Bolt. I mean it was cute and fun, but it just didn't do it for me.

Me too.

[astrologic]

Originally Posted by sir clinksalot

Reviewers were wrong IMO.

I really enjoyed Twilight, I only thought Bolt was okay. Meet the Robinsons was much better IMO.

Definitely agreed. Bolt was decent.

[Susabelle]

Originally Posted by Baloo

sad news amazing that such a badly reviewed film had such a following and destroyed a very well reviewed family movie

I have to disagree. Both Bolt and Twilight are good movies. Disney does not always have to take first place in the box office. And how did Twilight "destroy" Bolt? It is still running and is making money. Just because you don't happen to like the movie Twilight, does not mean it *destroyed* Bolt. I don't understand that word *destroyed*. I saw many people going to see Bolt and we saw the 3D version over the weekend. It was very funny and sweet.

I liked Twilight better, but that's just me. I liked the book series and was interested in how they were going to bring it to the big screen. The adapted screenplay was done well to cover the most important aspects of the book. There was no way they could put an entire 500 page book into a two hour movie, so what they did was okay and told the story well.

I can't wait for "New Moon". Disney would do well NOT to release any movies the weekend that one comes out in 2009. What happened to Bolt will happen again to any movie released opposite any Twilight series film. It is just the way it is, a phenomenon. I saw Twilight several times. It is a fun movie and a well done Indie pic for the budget they had to work with.

I do like both movies. They are both good for what they are.

[ALIASd]

Posted: Sun., Dec. 7, 2008, 10:22am PT

Disney toon “Bolt,” which came in No. 3, was hurt much more by the holiday comparison, falling 64% to $9.7 million. Total take so far is $79.2 million.

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Disney’s “Bolt,” which won’t hit most key markets until January, fetched $9.5 million at 1,392 in nine territories with its top performance coming from its second Russian frame with $3.2 million, down only 30%. The Mouse House’s “Wall-E” gathered up $5.6 million at 1,020 -- nearly all from its Japanese launch and enough to lift the toon’s foreign cume to $271 million, the seventh-highest overseas figure this year.

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[ALIASd]

Posted: Sun., Dec. 14, 2008, 10:00am PT

Coming in No. 4, Disney’s 3-D toon “Bolt” fell just 23% in grossing an estimated $7.5 million from 3,133 runs for a cume of $89 million in its fourth weekend.

Disney’s animated “Bolt” fetched $4.1 million at 1,900 in 11 markets for a $28 million foreign cume as the Mouse House mostly holds off on challenging “Madagascar 2” head to head. And its “Wall-E” scooped up $4 million more in its second Japanese frame for an offshore total of $276.8 million.

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[krystledm]

i walked out on twilight, it was stupid and i had better things to do.

[ALIASd]

Originally Posted by krystledm

i walked out on twilight, it was stupid and i had better things to do.

Summit Entertainment’s “Twilight” came close to eclipsing the domestic gross of “Sex and the City” in earning an estimated $8 million in its fourth frame from 3,649 runs for a cume of $150.1 million. Film, landing at No. 3, dipped 39%.

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[Rex Dopey24]

thats not bad at all for twilight. i think.

[<3WillTurner]

woo Twilight

[ALIASd]

December 19–21, 2008

weekend estimates, final numbers posted Monday:

#7 BOLT $4,256,000

Domestic total: $95,009,000
Foreign: $28,729,988

Weekend Box Office Results for December 19–21, 2008

In other weekend highlights, Disney’s “Bolt” fetched $5.3 million at 2,300 in 15 markets, including a $1.8 million Mexican launch, while the third weekend of the Mouse House’s “Wall-E” declined only 28% in Japan to $3.3 million, pushing the international total to $283 million.

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