New Moon posied to break biggest single-day opening?

With the record for biggest midnight opening already broken, New Moon is setting its sights on The Dark Knight’s Record of the “biggest single-day opening”.

According to the LA TImes, the vampire teen phenomenon is all but certain to gross more than $67.2 million record set by the Dark Knight two years ago.

According to four people who have closely watched ticket sales data today but requested anonymity because they are not authorized to release the information, the teen vampire phenomenon is all but certain to gross more than $67.2 million, the record set by “The Dark Knight” last year for the biggest single-day take at the box office.

By 5 p.m., the movie had already sold more than $50 million worth of tickets in the U.S. and Canada. When evening shows are included, the total will likely be more than $70 million, the people said.

However with fans rushing to see the film on opening day, huge drop are expected to be shown on Saturday and Sunday. That would still keep the film though in the $110 – 120 million gross mark and would make the movie as one of the top 5 pictures of all time at the domestic box-office.

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