How much twilight made

It's the first month of the new year, but the biggest hit might be a film released in December. Last month ended on a slow note with all five Christmas day releases failing to become hits, some more than others. It's a little too soon to tell if The Wolf of Wall Street or The Secret Life of Walter Mitty will do well enough to break even any time soon, but neither is a serious hit. There are still some December releases that will likely remain on the charts through the opening weekends of January, while there are some films that opened in limited release last month with a scheduled wide release this month.

Even then, it won't live up to the previous films in the franchise , even if you don't take inflation into account. Most of the rest of the new releases will be happy if they can become midlevel hits. I think Shadow Recruit will top that figure at the box office, while there are a similar number of likely box office bombs opening this year as there were last year. Thanksgiving is less than a week away and that means Black Friday, Cyber Monday, and a ton of shopping.

It also means the first installment of our Holiday Gift Guide. Over the next month, we will talk about TV on DVD releases, independent releases, foreign language releases, classics, etc. These are first run releases, franchise box sets, etc. However, this year seems weaker than years past. Last year the biggest new release was The Avengers , which was also one of the best reviewed wide releases of the year.

This year the biggest release is Iron Man 3 , which earned good reviews , but not great reviews. Last year there were a ton of franchise box sets. This year has been pretty barren. In fact, I think the only franchise box set that's truly new and really worth picking up is It's a big week with several first run releases, some big TV on DVD, releases, and more to deal with.

The only one that truly rises to the level of Pick of the Week is Mad Men : Season Six, but the screener arrived late and I hate awarding Pick of the Week to a title when that happens. The only other release I really want to see is White House Down , but that's more guilty pleasure than Pick of the Week. Twilight came out in to a mixture of high buzz and abject horror.

There were a lot of people who were major fans of the book series by Stephenie Meyer , while others consider Stephenie Meyer the worst author of all time. That might be a bit harsh. Clearly this franchise is critic-proof and I'm under no delusion that any of my criticisms will stop anyone from buying this disc Blu-ray box set. I'm so convinced that no one will change their minds over my opinion of the movie that I'm going to keep that portion of the review to a minimum and concentrate on the extras instead.

After all, anyone interested in this box set has already made up their mind about the movie and just want to know if this box set has enough extras to be worth the price. October ended on a winning note, but it was the only time the entire month that topped in the year-over-year comparison. Even with that surprise monster hit, the month still couldn't keep pace with last year.

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire should make more than last year's number one film, Skyfall , but the depth last year could prove too much to deal with. The headline might claim God loves limited releases, but it is clear the critics don't. There are more than a dozen limited releases on this week's list, but many of them are earning reviews that are weak, or much, much worse.

God Loves Uganda is practically the lone exception, as it is earning perfect reviews. Unfortunately, it's a documentary, so its chances of expanding significantly are very limited. Its reviews are not as good, but good enough to suggest it will find an audience, but it is opening in more than theaters, which might be too many. It is a very busy week on the home market with four wide releases, five if you count Spring Breakers , which expanded semi-wide during its second weekend of release.

None of these films were big hits at the box office. Additionally, only one of them earned good reviews. Unfortunately, I'm still waiting for the screener for both of those releases, and I hate handing out the Pick of the Week when the screener is on its way. Warm Bodies was released in theaters in early February, which is a bad time of the year to release a film. Additionally, the early buzz was bad. A lot of people saw the basic premise romance between a zombie boy and a living girl and thought it was just another Twilight rip-off.

The first trailer showed it was something different, but sometimes first impressions are lasting impressions. Fortunately it was able to top expectations and became a surprise midlevel hit. Will it continue to perform well on the home market? The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part 2 was one of four releases from the franchise to come out this week on Blu-ray. Normally it would be great news for the Blu-ray market when a monster hit like this comes out; however, the target demographic isn't the prime demographic for Blu-ray.

Additionally, sales of 1. You can't complain about that. This is just an anomaly given the top release s. A pair of new releases led the way on the March 3rd, edition of the Blu-ray sales chart. Twilight, with an indie sensibility and a self-knowing wit, is easily the best of the bunch. Alas, Hollywood has a habit of tossing female directors from the franchises like Fifty Shades of Grey and Mamma Mia they help create.

But today, J. The Hunger Games never really recovered from A the box office downturn that showed nobody cared about the politics and B too many folks seemingly viewing its secret villain as a Hillary Clinton clone and instead voting for Coriolanus Snow in the election.

I think Twilight is genuinely good, while the sequels are All due respect to the Russos, but Civil War and Endgame both needed more decapitations and scenes where wolves drag vampires down a crack in the Earth to a fiery death.

So popular did its merchandise prove, in fact, that it almost single-handedly rescued the teen apparel store Hot Topic. The first film sold 2. The third album had already sold , copies before the film opened. In an effort to grow its film base, the studio is playing up the action sequences in trailers — as part of a none-too-subtle bid to attract boys to the theaters.

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