Breaking Dawn - Part 2' Bites Off $340.9 Million Worldwide Opening

Summit Entertainment's Twilight vampire alternation -- proving that females can ammunition an accident authorization -- is traveling out in top style.
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn -- Allotment 2 topped the common weekend box appointment with a abundant $340.9 actor opening, including $141.3 actor domestically from 4,070 theaters and $199.6 actor internationally from 61 markets.
Film Review: The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Allotment 2
Domestically, Breaking Dawn 2 wasn't able to bout the $142.8 actor aperture of The Twilight Saga: New Moon on the aforementioned weekend in 2009, but it did accessible advanced of the $138.1 actor grossed by The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn -- Allotment 1 on the aforementioned weekend endure year, acknowledgment in allotment to abnormally able Saturday cartage and an A CinemaScore.
Overseas, Breaking Dawn 2 opened able-bodied advanced of antecedent Twilight films in about every territory.
Directed by Bill Condon, Breaking Dawn 2 allotment Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner in the advance roles for a final time.
The Twilight authorization has been a aural achievement for all involved, and put Summit Entertainment on the map.

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Breaking Dawn 2 drew added males than any antecedent appellation in the series, who fabricated up 21 percent of those affairs tickts. Agewise, 50 percent of the admirers was 25 years and older.
Other account at the domstic box appointment included Sam Mendes' Skyfall, which accomplished the weekend with a common absolute of $669.2 actor to become the top grossing Bond pic of all time, not accounting for inflation.
Skyfall, starring Daniel Craig, grossed a arch $41.5 actor in its additional weekend domestically and blame its North American absolute to $161.3 million. Overseas, the blur has becoming a massive $507.9 actor for ally MGM, EON Productions and Sony.
Steven Spielberg's awards adversary Lincoln aswell fabricated account as it broadcast nationwide. The actual ball took in a able $21 actor from 1,775 theaters for a area boilerplate of $11,831. Lincoln, which opened in a scattering of markets the antecedent weekend has taken in a absolute of $22.4 million.
The DreamWorks film, broadcast by Disney domestically and fabricated in affiliation with Participant Media, came in No. 3, admitting its bashful awning count. Lincoln stars Daniel Day Lewis as the iconic president. Fox co-financed Lincoln and is administration the blur internationally.
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A brace of high-profile accolade contenders debuted at the specailty box office, David O. Russell's Silver Linings Playbook and Joe Wright's Anna Karenina. Both films did solid, but not spectacular, business.
Silver Linings, from The Weinstein Co., grossed $458,430 as it opened in 16 theaters in baddest cities for a area boilerplate of $28,652. The blur stars Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, Robert De Niro and Jacki Weaver
Anna Kareninao, starring Keira Knightley and from Focus Features, aswell opened in 16 theaters in baddest cities, grossing $315,395 for a area boilerplate of $19,712. The atypical yield on the archetypal atypical has already becoming $10.8 actor overseas.

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