Poll: How Much Will 'Twilight' Make This Weekend?

quantum of solace was disappointing. lack of character development. just a action movie.

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Let's see ... Generic vampire flick with no significant star power. Sure the books sold, but the trailers (footage, teasers) have been pretty dull. If I didn't know it was a book, I'd be wondering why this didn't go straight to video.
My take: It will make $25 -$30 million, and in it's second week have a huge drop off.

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I do think that the Money-making aspect of Twilight is being overblown a bit, because it's been pretty clear to me that Twilight hasn't approached Harry Potter status just yet... it's coming closer, but not yet.

I voted for it to make somewhere between $30 million and $50 million in your poll.

I enjoyed the book series a good bit, but I think the movie will help it reach a much wider audience who didn't know anything about it until now. I think it will take off after this movie release, and become bigger with each subsequent film. Plus, the budget will be bigger next go round, for those hung up on that sort of thing.

I don't think star power is a problem like techstar25 does... no one knew who Dan Radcliffe and Rupert Grint were either.

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I don't think it's going to do nearly as well as some people have predicted. That whole series seems to have a fairly locked audience. Harry Potter really appealed to everyone, where Twilight is gunning for the teenage girl audience. It really hasn't tried to capture anyone outside their target.

Plus the appeal is gone because the book series is over. Harry Potter was exciting because the series wasn't finished. Rowling could say what elements from the movies were foreshadowing elements in the future books. I'm sure the next 3 movies (HBP and DH1 and 2) are going to hurt because the book series is over too.

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I think it will do at least $60. People are nuts about this stuff for some insane reason.

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Unfortunately, I think Dawson's Crypt is gonna do gangbusters this weekend. All the Hot Topic kids are going line up. I used to think the Harry Potter movies were lame, but this makes Harry Potter look like The Dark Knight.

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If I didn't read Cinematical, I would have never known about this movie and the book. So far I have only seen one commercial about this film. I think it will do between between 30-35 million and will drop after this. Next week they have to go against 4 Christmases (Witherspoon and Vince Vaughn) and Transporter 3. If they don't get their money this week I can see it dropping to 3rd place on the chart next week.

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Here is the real deal. I never heard of Twilight until the San Diego Comic Con this past summer. The Summit Booth was always packed with teenage girls, twenty-something females, mothers and fathers, all trying to get free stuff. =) Then I read the books and fell in love with the series. Now I am a mother of two teenage boys who turn there noses up at me and call me Emo. And the funny thing is the fan base is bigger than you guys think. The simple fact is it is not just a "teenager" agnst filled story, but something that touches alot of women of all ages and some men that is making it as huge as it is. I mean there are countless websites dedicated to all things twilight from quotes to merchandise! There is even one about a guy who is reading the stories and blogging about his experiences as a male reading this story. That one is acutally pretty funny. So bottom line is people are under estimating this movie. It will do huge numbers. So far the midnight shows are already sold out. And remember Buffy the vamp slayer series? Well you have alot of those fans that will eat this movie series up. Remember that there are alot of people who love vampy movies who don't like to read. So I predict big things for this movie. And I also believe that it will continue to do big for the rest of the year. I've seen the trailers, read the books and I can say that I am excited.

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Well said Purplelush:) I competely agree with you. I guess i can be considered middle aged I'm 31 almost 32 mother of three and I love this series. oh and by the way I am by no means sexually frustrated or missing anything. My husband is fabulous- I don't know why they say that about the audience only being teens and middle aged sexually frustrated women. Judge Judge Judge... (I saw that comment on the article about reviews so far.)

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I think it will do extremely well at the box office this weekend. All of the midnight showing are selling out and not just to teenage girls who have to go to school the next day. I know a lot of adults who are going--both male and female--that really liked the book series as much as the teens. Also, I get so tired of hearing Twilight compared to Harry Potter. The only thing they have in common is that they are both book series that were developed into movies. Harry Potter is about a boy wizard. Twilight is an extraordinary love story between a mortal and a vampire.

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Twilight is going to do extremely well. I am a Twilighter and I know that every girl in my school is going to see the movie. I know that several of us will see Twilight more than once even if it completely sucks(which wont happen)

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I call on all the Twilight series fans to pitch in and let’s donate money to find a better Director, Screenplay writer and Producer for the upcoming sequels. Let’s try to cast someone who can grasp the role of Bella!!! Edward was great, he did what he could considering what he was playing with.
S. Meyer deserves her Romance to be depicted the way she did!
Let’s not forget…We need new Make-up artists as well.

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