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‘Twilight’ Still Beats ‘Potter’ in Midnight Screenings

November 19, 2010  Posted by Jenn in Eclipse,New Moon

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This is a story that makes a fangirl feel good.  Twilight Saga New Moon and Eclipse still both beat out Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows Part 1 in midnight sales!

According to Market Watch:

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part I made $24 million in its debut during the wee hours Friday, enough to pull into third place among films with midnight screenings, according to figures from box-office tracker Hollywood.com.

Deathly Hallows fell behind two films in the Twilight series. The Twilight Saga: Eclipse still is tops with its $30 million-plus debut earlier this year on June 30. And The Twilight Saga: New Moon comes in second at $26.3 million for its Nov. 20, 2009 midnight release.

Now for a couple of theories on why. Twilight Lexicon thinks:

In fairness to the Potter chain, Eclipse opened at roughly 4,400 theaters opening day while Potter opened at roughly 4,100. (Stats via Box Office Mojo).

That statistic aside, perhaps at seven movies people sit back and wait to see a movie like that right away.  The Harry Potter audience has grown up and has jobs and things to do other than a midnight screening.  The box office for the weekend will be phenomenal and Potter will break records this weekend, there’s no doubt about that.  It just takes a lot for some people to come to a midnight screening anymore.  What do you think?

  • Taylor'soneandonlywolfgirl

    O come on I love both of them but why do they have to do this

  • team jacob

    TEAM JACOB!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Brandi come on just because you don't like twilight doesn't mean that you would talk about fans like that! You don t even know what you're thalking about!

  • Team E

    can I just say, what does it mean by "fangirl"? does it mean fan-girl or fang-girl???

  • Team E

    Ok, I'm N-O-T a twilight hater but HP is still a lot better. Also, both books have 700-800 pages, and sorry, but you're pretty sad if you care exactly how long it is.

  • Shelly

    ok that's your opinion. keep it to yourself

  • Janat_hussain

    hey hermoine vs emma watson i love you soooooooooooooooooooo muchhhhhhhhh......!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Jannat_hussain

    I really like edward and bella ............ please reply me this coment .................

  • Team E

    umm... ok

  • Ntasha Zaman

    i like harry potter sooooooooooooooo muchhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

  • Twilight Lover!!

    OK! EVERY STUPID HARRY POTTER FAN NEEDS TO GO BACK TO THEIR MAGICAL WORLD!!!! The reason why TWILIGHT SAGA is the best is because the story takes place in a town where you can actually visit. Not like Harry Potter where you have to go and pay a high price to get in!!!!

  • Team E

    Well, some of us like both! I wonder how the people who live wherever twilight is shot like a whole load of idiots coming in, just to see a piece of grass that Kristen Stewart stepped on!

  • Lucia.Venezuela

    In my opinion if it was good to divide the two movies, because that way they can focus more on important details and be more like books.

    Greetings from Venezuela

  • I can honestly say that this whole Twi vs. HP deal is a mess.
    We all need to get along and respect each others opinions.

  • Twihard4lyf

    The reason Twilight : BD is broken up into 2 movies = the same reason HP - DH is... THIS IS THE END OF AN EPIC PHENOMENON on both parts!!! I mean come on y'all I LOVE Twilight... and HP!!! It's not like the film industry is fueding over this ... the reason why BD was postponed on filming until now is because they agreed to not release the end of HP and Twilight in the same yr!

  • Vouta_87

    sorry but i say that Deathyly hallows was much more entertaining thn eclipse..just saw harry potter yesterday and I have to say tht I LOVED it..eclipse was not bad, but it wasn't tht good either. HP did not disappoint as much as eclipse did..it made me so eager to see part 2 so much. but after eclipse I don't feel tht eager to see breakin dawn so much after i saw it.

  • Kb2007bookworm

    I personally love both books and the movies. I don't understand why fans that like one but not the other have to constantly bash eachother. Its certainly ok if you don't like the Twilight Saga or the Harry Potter books but why do people have to be so mean about not liking one of them? Serioulsy, its just being petty.

    I do agree though that The Deathly Hallows should be 2 parts because there is a lot of info. and Breaking Dawn could be made into one movie that is about 2 1/2 to 3 hours long because the first half of the book can be condensed a lot. Of course, from Warner Brothers and Summit's point of view, the reason to make the books into 2 parts is clearly for whatever extra profits they can squeeze out of the franchises.

  • HAHA

    IT DOESNT MATTER!!!!!!!!!!! HARRY POTTER is Still way better. JK Rowling is an amazing author and to tell you the truth Stephanie Myer is alright. Mediocre. I read her books and they're good. But not great. The reason they are so big with everyone is because there are billions of little girls who love the book and are oh so jolly about it because they have no real love life haha and they just dream on gettin with either jacob or edward.

  • Fan

    I do not understand why people compare Twilight to Harry Potter,first one is a love story and the other is a battle between good and evil.I love both of them.I grew up on Harry Potter and I adore Twilight but I really couldnt care less witch movie is going to make more money.I don't like the spliting idea,but I can understand that there is too much for the movie in a book,that's why books are way better than movies,especially in Twilight's case.Breaking dawn has too many different things and turnovers,and Harry Potter has too much adventures,so at the end I'd rather watch two good movies made of one book than one movie crowded with undeveloped happenings.I'm gonna watch all the movies as I read all the books because I LIKE THEM.

  • IceCrystal

    really, its impressive that 3 twilight movies beat harry potter when they have about 7 or so.

  • Team E

    HP has HUMOR in it. Just the right amount. Of HUMOR. Twilight humor is just completely dry.

  • Team E

    HP has HUMOR in it. Just the right amount. Of HUMOR. Twilight humor is just completely dry.

  • wdnsdjasdnasdln asd

    wtf, this is like a debate.

  • Yesenia

    Omg I'm so twikotic lol yeah I spelled it witha k lol n I bet thatwhen breaking dawn comes out it's gonna break all records for midnight screenings :) Harry potter gots nothing on TWILIGHT!!!

  • lol love twilight XD

    OMG!!! look at the book or the frikin internet! BD had 754 pages and why ru ppl fighting over witch one is better? I'm not trying to be mean 2 u ppl who love harry potter or anything but i'm not a fan of it but i'm not fighting with ppl over witch one is better! BD has 754 pgs and thats it! look it up on the internet! so just stop fighting over witch one is better and witch one has more pgs cuz it doesnt matter! Sry if i offended anyone with this but i think that the twilight series is better cuz im not a huge fan of harry potter. Ok? so just stop fighting over witch one has more pgs cuz its how good the movie is, not how many pgs it has. :|

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