This Weekend @ The Boxoffice: 2009.Nov.23

[Crothian]

I never even heard of the books until the first movie and did not even think it would be as big as it was, figured it would do what Underworld and Resident Evil did...was I wrong!

I work with a lot of women and they were all reading the books which was a surprise because I'm not sure many of them are big readers. Then my sister was reading them, my mom was reading them, other female friends were reading them. I had a feeling it would be a hit.

 

[Klaus]

I work with a lot of women and they were all reading the books which was a surprise because I'm not sure many of them are big readers. Then my sister was reading them, my mom was reading them, other female friends were reading them. I had a feeling it would be a hit.

"I have a bad feeling about this." [/Han Solo]

 

[Crothian]

"I have a bad feeling about this." [/Han Solo]

No, anything that gets people to read I'm in favor of. I might like the books or the movie but I'm not faulting anyone else for enjoying it.

 

[Hand of Evil]

No, anything that gets people to read I'm in favor of. I might like the books or the movie but I'm not faulting anyone else for enjoying it.

A lot of people read a lot of stuff, stuff that gets made into movies: this was bigger than Harry Potter - that is what I did not see. Note: Harry 1, opened @ 90 Million, Harry 2 @ 88 Million and both cost 100+ Million to make!

 

[Mark]

I'm thinking that the bulk of both audiences are younger viewers but that the sensual nature of the Twilight themes will keep an older audience interested, too. I think the Potter series (or movies) has been strung out longer than was necessary and might be harming the overall fervor for them. I'm not saying they are not doing well, just that they might have done better if released in tighter succession. If they had fan the flames a bit harder, a bit early, they might have built and sustained a larger overall audience. I'm guessing they gained some younger readers and viewers over the last twelve years (since Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone was published in Britain) but that they may have lost a lot of the older ones along the way, too. I mid-teenager in 1997 is in his late twenties these days.

 

[Klaus]

Well, there's only so far you could push a cast of children. Twilight's cast are all adults, so it's easier to shoot the movies back-to-back.

 

[Hand of Evil]

Well, there's only so far you could push a cast of children. Twilight's cast are all adults, so it's easier to shoot the movies back-to-back.

Damn those child labor laws, Mickey Rooney and Shirley Temple could put out nine movies a year back in the day!