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In four days ‘The Twilight Saga: Eclipse’ has manged to hit $261 million dollars worldwide!!!

Domestically ‘Eclipse’ has generated an estimated $161 million since it opened on 6/30, and is estimated to hit at least $181 million by the end of the holiday weekend.

If further estimates hold, the film will bring in $89 million during 3 day holiday weekend which will put it as the #1 movie opening over the 4th of July holiday, beating ‘Spider Man 2′.

‘Eclipse’ has also grossed $100.2 million if over 42 foreign markets.

Summit has confirmed ‘The Twilight Saga: Eclipse’ brought in $68.5 million (including the $30 million midnight showing figure)!!

While that doesn’t beat the massive $72 million that ‘New Moon’ brought in, this does set a new record for Wednesday openings, beating ‘Transformers 2′ $62 million opening day. ‘Eclipse’ has also broken the record for highest single Summer Day opening, ‘The Dark Knight’ held that title with $67.2 million.

So bar, Box Office experts are saying the ‘Eclipse’ is on track for a $180 million dollar opening 5 day weekend!!

Stay tuned for more updates!!

The Midnight totals are in for ‘The Twilight Saga: Eclipse’!!

And that total is $30 million dollars!!

This beats the record of $26 million ‘New Moon’ set in November.

The IMAX numbers are in and ‘Eclipse’ also set a new record there.  The film grossed $1 million in midnight IMAX screening, beating out ‘Transformers 2′ record of $959,000!!

Stay tuned as more info comes in!!

**Slight Spoilers, You’ve Been Warned**

After 8 months of waiting, Eclipse finally hit theaters this morning.  I had the added advantage of being able to go to an advance screening prior to the midnight showing, so I saw it twice in less than 5 hours.  Which really helps when making up your mind on if you like a film or not!

I’m going preface this with saying that ‘Eclipse’ was my favorite book out of the series so I was expecting a lot out of David Slade and crew.  I’m also not guaranteeing that this will be 100% spoiler free, so read at your own risk.

Review is after the jump

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Entertainment Weekly has just posted it’s review of ‘The Twilight Saga: Eclipse’.

Along with THR and Variety, EW seems to be liking the latest Twilight Saga film giving it a grade of B+

The Twilight Saga: Eclipse is like some broodingly repressed wide-screen youth-pop melodrama from the 1950s — and I mean that as a compliment. The story, at heart, is earnest and humorless teen romantic glop, but its feelings aren’t fake, and the movie is compulsively watchable; it has a passionflower intensity. In case you haven’t been keeping up, the plot — and the blood — have thickened a lot since the first Twilight film two years ago. In that initial, relatively uncomplicated chapter, the ever-so-mildly dark and alienated Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) fell for the dashing vampire Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson) because of his pasty-faced erotic appeal (sideburns, James Dean hair, golden eyes, eternal stricken look), but also because he offered himself up as the ultimate protector: swoony and chivalrous, a spangly-skinned knight of the woods who vowed to guard her innocence.

http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20397975,00.html

We all know ‘The Twilight Saga: Eclipse’ is going to be big as far as box office numbers are concerned.  Currently, the movie is generating 82% of the daily sales on Fandango.com and is to date the highest advance ticket seller the site has had all year.

But, what kind of records/previous box office numbers will Eclipse have to beat out?

We already know ‘The Twilight Saga: New Moon’ was one of 2009’s top earners with a box office total of $296.6 million, however its opening day total was record breaking, the film brought in $72.7 million on its opening day, $27 million of that was just from midnight showing.  ‘New Moon’s opening weekend was also massive with $142.8 for all 3 days.  ‘Eclipse’ has a slight advantage with that its opening on 1) a Wednesday 2) a holiday weekend (4^th of July), the film also doesn’t have much in the way of competition, the only other film opening this weekend is ‘The Last Airbender’.

There are other records to break, Last summer ‘Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen’ nabbed the top spot for an Opening Day – Wednesday with $62 million.  Back in 2008 ‘The Dark Knight’ grossed $203.7 million during its 5 day opening and so far no one has topped that.  The highest ‘4^th of July’ weekend gross goes to ‘Spider Man 2’ with $88.1 million.

What does all this mean for ‘Eclipse’ in order to beat all those records listed above, ‘Eclipse’ will need to generate at least $203.8 million this weekend.  Now, the chances are slightly greater due to the film having a limited release in IMAX, which does have its higher ticket prices.

Twilight Fans are known to see the movie during repeat viewings over opening weekend, so hopefully with the holiday weekend, IMAX viewings, and the multiple viewing I know Twilight fans are sure to do, there is a good chance ‘Eclipse’ could be the biggest earner during this rather bleak “Blockbuster” summer.