So, speaking of Twilight...
Twilight is directed by Catherine Hardwicke, and has sold enough money just in ticket *presales* to cover the cost of making the movie- $38 million dollars, in case you were curious.
To understand why this is so big, you have to check out the list of highest grossing movies of all time. Of the list of 100, not one of them is directed by a woman. Some animated movies- Shrek and Happy Feet, for instance- had women as co-directors, but not one of them has only a woman as a director.
For Twilight to break into the list, and to be the first live-action movie to be directed by a woman on the "Top 100" list, it needs to gross more then $187 million dollars.
I'm pretty sure that it will do that before the end of November.
After all, it earned over $70 million in its first weekend (making the top four spot for the highest grossing movies in November, beat only by the first, second, and fourth Harry Potter movies). In the first day, the movie grossed $35.9 million- the second largest opening day total for a movie released in November (the number one movie was Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire in 2005 with $40.1 million dollars), with $7 million of that just from the midnight showing on Thursday night.
What do you all think?
Ja Ne~
<3 Nikori
2 comments:
Wow, I had no idea that the director was the first woman of the list. That is inspiring! And I love the movie!
Great film and look forward to the next one!
I like the fact that it is directed by a women and that it is the first woman on the list. congrats to Twilight!! It really is a huge deal to see that women are finally doing big things. its exciting.
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