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Terms and conditions apply. * Savings buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Savings Account. * No ATM fees from Ally Bank at Allpoint and Moneypass ATMs plus we reimburse for fees charged by other ATM owners nationwide up to $10 per statement cycle. * Early direct deposit offers eligible direct deposits up to two days sooner. * Spending buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Spending Account. by [Richard Corliss](https://time.com/author/richard-corliss/) Nov 22, 2009 5:00 AM UTC  Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart in a scene from The Twilight Saga: New Moon Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart in a scene from The Twilight Saga: New Moon Kimberley French / Summit Entertainment / AP by [Richard Corliss](https://time.com/author/richard-corliss/) Nov 22, 2009 5:00 AM UTC Friday night it was Jimmy Kimmel’s turn to host the young stars of _The Twilight Saga: New Moon_: Kristen Stewart (Bella Swan), Taylor Lautner (Jacob Black) and Robert Pattinson (Edward Cullen, as if you didn’t know). The audible rapture of the studio audience, in large part female, stirred Kimmel to that now-familiar remark, “Not since the Beatles…” The crowd swooned when Pattinson, asked if he’d been injured doing any of the movie’s stunts, acknowledged, “I strained one of my ass-cheeks.” When the ladies had a chance to ask questions, the ones directed to the men were mostly shirt-related. “Rob, is your shirt misbuttoning a fashion statement, or just carelessness?” “Taylor, would you take off your shirt and give it to me?” [(Read TIME’s interview with Rob Pattinson.)](https://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1939909,00.html) The Kimmel audience must have been among the few _Twilight Saga_ fans who didn’t give the shirts off their backs to see the second installment in the planned quartet of movies based on the Stephenie Meyer novels about a teen girl’s love with the proper vampire. With its $72.7 million Friday take — more than its predecessor, last year’s _Twilight_, earned in its first full weekend — _New Moon_ set a one-day record for the North American box office. By tonight, according to studio estimates, it will have earned $140.7 million, which makes the film a prime mover in what could be, according to Variety, “the second-best weekend ever at the domestic B.O. in terms of overall ticket sales.” And not on a holiday. And not in summer. As one noted journalist observed, on hearing these numbers, “Wow.” That $140.7 million would also make _New Moon_ the third hottest opener in movie history, after those predictable summer attractions _The Dark Knight_ and _Spider-man 3_. Please note that the core demographic for those two smashes were young males who love comics; this one became a smash because of girls who read books. The supersmash status of _New Moon_ shows that women can make megahits, and that, as with _Harry Potter_, a beloved book franchise can translate to widely and wildly popular movies. [(Read “_New Moo_n Review: Team Jacob Ascending”)](https://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1941094,00.html) The _New Moon_ madness began with a thunderclap: it earned $26.2 million just in its midnight-Thursday shows. This was another new record, and it exceeded the entire weekend gross of five of the No. 1 pictures of autumn: _Tyler Perry’s I Can Do Bad All By Myself, Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs_ (in its second frame in the top slot), _Michael Jackson’s This Is It, Paranormal Activity_ and the horror comedy _Zombieland_. That last stat should end, for now, the question of whether zombies are the new vampires. These days, with _Wolverine_ hogging DVD shelves and Jason’s hirsute brethren commandeering the mall marquees, it’s werewolves who will give our fanged friends the biggest battle for a young lady’s affections. The size of _New Moon_‘s boodle left the industry’s box-office handicappers flummoxed. Like crazed billionaires trying to outbid one another for an evening with Angelina Jolie, they kept jacking up their weekend estimates as _New Moon_ broke record upon record, day by day. On Thursday the smart money was on a $100 million opening; on Friday the ante was raised to $120 million, and on Saturday they finally got it right. Of course, the $140.7 million is simply another estimate: Summit Pictures’ Sunday-morning guess at Sunday evening’s take. The real number, released tomorrow afternoon, could be much higher or much lower — all of which underlines the validity of screenwriter William Goldman’s dictum that, in Hollywood, “Nobody knows anything.” [(See portraits of the characters in _New Moon_.)](https://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1939314,00.html) If _New Moon_ had not existed — well, many young hearts would be broken, but also, the big news would have been the $34.5 million racked up by the true-life inspirational sports drama _The Blind Side_. Based on another _book_ (Michael Lewis’s bio of Michael Oher, a troubled black youth, adopted by a white couple, who became a college football star and NFL rookie), _The Blind Side_ would have won the box-office race almost any other fall weekend, and gave Sandra Bullock the biggest opening of her career. Also impressive was the $11 million amassed by the African-American drama _Precious_ in only 629 theaters. (_New Moon_ played on 4,024 screens.) _Precious_ now looks to join _Paranormal Activity_ as the year’s top indie hits, and should have sturdy legs right up to Oscar night. [(Read TIME’s Q&A with _New Moon_ director Chris Weitz.)](https://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1939910,00.html) For now, though, _New Moon_ is the big news. The international grosses will also be massive. The first film earned $192.7 million in North America and almost exactly the same abroad. The worldwide five-day total for _New Moon_ (which opened two days earlier abroad) is already at $258.8 million; expect a final worldwide gross to near $700 million. The thing’s a phenomenon, and all the analysis of its popularity can’t explain or diminish it. Sometimes the best strategy for canny film people is to step out of the way and let a hurricane sweep by. Nobody knows anything, except the customers. And you could bet your shirt on that. Here are the weekend’s top-grossing pictures in North American theaters, as reported by Box Office Mojo.com: 1\. _The Twilight Saga: New Moon_, $140.7 million, first weekend 2\. _The Blind Side_, $34.5 million, first weekend 3\. _2012_, $26.5 million; $108.2 million, second week 4\. _Planet 51_, $12.6 million, first weekend 5\. _Disney’s A Christmas Carol_, $12.2 million; $79.8 million, third week 6\. _Precious, Based on the Novel “Push” By Sapphire_, $11 million; $21,4 million, third week 7\. _The Men Who Stare at Goats_, $2.8 million; $27.6 million, third week 8\. _Couples Retreat_, $2 million; $105 million, seventh week 9\. _The Fourth Kind_, $1.7 million; $23.3 million, third week 10\. _Law Abiding Citizen_, $1.6 million; $70 million, sixth week [Read TIME’s Q&A with Kristen Stewart.](https://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1940217,00.html) [Read TIME’s interview with _Twilight_ director Catherine Hardwicke.](https://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1940543,00.html) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6910513/twilight-sequel-new-moon-sets-records-at-the-box-office/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6910513/twilight-sequel-new-moon-sets-records-at-the-box-office/"},"headline":"Twilight Sequel New Moon Sets Records at the Box Office","datePublished":"2009-11-22T05:00:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-22T16:07:49.903Z","description":"Friday night it was Jimmy Kimmel's turn to host the young stars of The Twilight Saga: New Moon: Kristen Stewart (Bella Swan), Taylor Lautner (Jacob...","url":"https://time.com/archive/6910513/twilight-sequel-new-moon-sets-records-at-the-box-office/","keywords":[],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt956da3fc0d70af1e/698a4b4e09208f534141be33/360_twilight_bo_1120.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Richard Corliss","url":"https://time.com/author/richard-corliss/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt956da3fc0d70af1e/698a4b4e09208f534141be33/360_twilight_bo_1120.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"360_twilight_bo_1120.jpg","caption":"Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart in a scene from The Twilight Saga: New Moon","creditText":"Kimberley French / Summit Entertainment / AP","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/archive/6910513/twilight-sequel-new-moon-sets-records-at-the-box-office/","name":"Twilight Sequel New Moon Sets Records at the Box Office"}}]}] ```