New Moon rises to box office history

 

NBC Nightly News
Nov. 21, 2009

(1:21)…It’s a crowded yet steamy world of the undead that has just more than just teen audiences.

CHRISTY SEIFERT (Professor, Westminster College): Women see this as a romantic story their not getting in any other place.

The books by Stephanie Meyer have sold over 70 million copies. The first film made almost $400 Million. And the sequel? Even before the curtain went up, Fandango, for example, estimates it was selling about 10 tickets per second.

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