Sunday, December 6, 2009

"THE BLIND SIDE" eclipses "NEW MOON" $20M weekend

LOS ANGELES: the football-inspired drama "THE BLIND SIDE"has become the underdog hit of the season with a $20.4 million weekend and a box-offiice victory over "The twilight saga : New Moon"...
THE WARNER BROS .sports tale had been runner-up for the previous two weekends to Summit Entertainment's vampire romance "New Moon" which fell to second place with $15.7 million..
Great word-of-mouth from fans sustained "The Blind Side," which stars Sandra Bullock as a woman whose family adopts homeless teen Michael Oher,now a rookie tackle for the Baltimore Ravens...
"How outstanding is it to have a movie at No.1 in its third wweekend?"said Jeff Goldstein,executive vice president for distribution at Warner,who added the movie so far has done more than double the business he expected ."I don't know of anybody who ever saw anything this big.."
"NEW MOON" still is far ahead in total gross with $255.6 million domestically,compared to $129.3 million for "The Blind Side" .overseas,"New Moon" added $40.7 million to raise the international total to $314.5 million and its worldwide gross to $570.1 million ...

IN MY WORDS:believe it OR NOT.,i think its true..eventhough i'v never heard of "The Blind Side" movie...lol!

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