'The Twilight Saga: New Moon' has recorded the third biggest opening in box office history grossing $140.7million. Photo Credit: Splash NewsNovember 22, 2009, (Splash News) - The Twilight Saga: New Moon has recorded the third biggest opening in box office history grossing $140.7million.
The second film in the vampire series scored the record for single day performance earning $72.7 million in ticket sales on Friday.
The Dark Knight ($158 million) and Spiderman 3 ($151 million) are the only two movies to have scored bigger box office figures.
The Twilight series, based on Stephenie Meyer's four best-selling novels, tells the story of a teenage girl named Bella who falls in love with a vampire.
The first Twilight film made $384 million in global ticket sales. Closely held Summit has the rights to all four books in Meyer's series, and has already completed the third film, The Twilight Saga: Eclipse.
New Moon stars Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner and is about a small-town girl caught in a love triangle between a vampire and a werewolf.
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