TWILIGHT WAS BIGGER THAN DARK KNIGHT?!
Twilight is featured on the Yahoo! homepage…again! Yahoo! Movies has a new article about the winners, losers, and in-betweeners of the movie world for 2008. One of the winners? Twilight, of course! They also talk about how even though Dark Knight was huge, Twilight still beat it out in terms of best rate of return.
Here’s a bit of what they had to say:
If only Wall Street had bet on Twilight. Or Hannah Montana. Or Kirk Cameron.With a $167.3 million overall domestic take as Sunday, per Box Office Mojo, Twilight made more than four times its reported $37 million production budget—the best rate of return on any film in the 2008 Top 10, including The Dark Knight.
Here’s a look of the top-grossing films of 2008 through Sunday based on numbers compiled by Box Office Mojo:
• The Dark Knight, $530.8 million • Iron Man, $318.3 million • Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, $317 million • Hancock, $227.9 million • WALL-E, $223.8 million • Kung Fu Panda, $215.4 million • Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa, $174.9 million • Twilight, $167.3 million • Quantum of Solace, $164.3 million • Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears a Who!, $154.5 million (Originally published Dec. 29, 2008 at 1:35 p.m. PT)
To read the full article, click here.
Wow! That is a pretty huge achievement. We all knew how tiny the budget was – but Twilight made more than 4 times it’s budget! That is awesome.
What do you think of these numbers? Were you surprised at all? How do you think Twilight ranks compared to the other movies on the list?




















