David Slade Thanks The Fans. Eclipse After 6 Days $275.49M Worldwide

"When you put your heart and soul into something as intense as the duration of a film production, you become completely lost in it. You focus on doing your very best to get it right each day and you work on this for so long that you assume an ownership of it.

When shooting The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, I always felt an awareness of how many people this film would reach and as a result, knew that this film did not just belong to myself, the producers and the studio, but more so, to all of you, the fans of The Twilight Saga.

At the end of the day, after all the hard work is done, all that's left is the film itself, and your overwhelmingly positive and supportive responses have made me feel like we must have done something right. As a filmmaker, this is a rare and strange feeling of connection with an audience of which I will never forget and I thank you all for it. "

DAVID SLADE
JULY 2010
@Twilight

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UPDATE – 7/6/10 – 5:00 PM
The actual box office figures for Eclipse are slightly higher than the estimates provided until this hour.  According to Summit, the movie’s actual four-day North American (Friday through Monday) haul at 4,468 locations was $83.6 million. The actual 6-day cumulative North American box office stands at $176.4 million.

UPDATE: – 7/5/10 – 11:00 AM
The numbers are in, and in the first six days since Eclipse was released, the film made $175.3 million in North America.A serious $9 million came from IMAX screenings.

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Eclipse Box Office Report:  Eclipse finishes first 6 days with $175.29M domestic (USA), $275.49M worldwide.

Box office estimates are in for Sunday, July 4 and Monday, July 5. For Sunday, The Twilight Saga: Eclipse finished in first place, taking in $16.6M from 4,468 locations for a per theater average of $3,715, representing a drop of 30.5% from Saturday to Sunday. This brings its 5-day cumulative domestic total to $161M. On Monday, The Twilight Saga: Eclipse stayed in first place, taking in $13.545M from 4,468 locations for a per theater average of $3,032, representing a drop of 18.4% from Sunday to Monday. This brings its 6-day cumulative domestic total to $175.29M. Adding in partial overseas returns of $100.2M gives Eclipse a current worldwide total of $275.49M.

For the 3-day weekend of Friday, July 2 - Sunday, July 4, Eclipse finished in first place with an estimated $69M from 4,468 locations for a per theater average of $15,443. For the 4-day weekend of Friday, July 2 - Monday, July 5, Eclipse finished in first place with an estimated $82.545M from 4,468 locations for a per theater average of $18,475. In second place for the 4-day weekend was The Last Airbender with $53.15M from 3,169 locations for a per theater average of $16,772. This brings its 5-day cumulative domestic total to $70.5M.

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