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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!!

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.

After several weeks of below average box office weekend, Disney/Pixar came to the rescue.

‘Toy Story 3′ the much anticipated movie opened this weekend 11 years after ‘Toy Story 2′ opened in 1999 with a record breaking box office gross.

‘Toy Story 3′ has brought in an estimated $109 million dollars, making it the highest opening weekend for an animated movie.  Topping the previous record made by ‘Shrek 2′ of $108.3 million.

This weekends other opener ‘Jonah Hex’, has been well hexed, the comic book western movie came in at 8th place with a blink and you miss it total of $5 million dollars.  This makes it the summers 2nd lowest grossing opening weekend, ‘MacGruber’ grossed the lowest of $4 million when it opened back in May.

Last weeks number one ‘Karate Kid’ fell down to number two with $29 million, bringing its 2 week run to $106 million.  ’The A-Team’  slipped to number 3 with $13.7 million for a grand total of $49.7 million, a far cry from its $110 million budget.

After its 3rd weekend in the release the awesomely funny ‘Get Him to the Greek’ came in at number four with $6.1 million, bringing to a total of $47 million.  Falling to number five is ‘Shrek Forever After’ with $5.5 million.

Weekends Top Ten

Next week’s big opener is the Tom Cruise helmed ‘Knight & Day’, personally I think ‘Toy Story 3′ will be the hold over for next weekend.