Vampires, 007 may set record Thanksgiving sales

The teen vampire movie Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn — Part 2, continues to lure huge audiences.

The teen vampire movie Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn — Part 2, continued to lure huge audiences siphoning off $12.8 million at night showings in what could fuel a record box office haul for the five-day Thanksgiving Day holiday.

The final film in the Twilight series, collected $141.3 million last weekend for the industry’s eighth largest opening weekend. This combined with James Bond film Skyfall to lead a slate of films that generated $44.3 million in total American and Canadian ticket sales for the day, according to hollywood.com.

That’s 20 per cent ahead of last year’s take for the Wednesday before Thanksgiving and if the pace holds, it would put Hollywood on a path to a $278 million holiday weekend. The 2009 holiday weekend record of $273 million included The Twilight Saga: New Moon and the football flick, The Blind Side.

Published in The Express Tribune, November 24^th, 2012.

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