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A New Pop Culture Phenom is Born

Twilight is stomping the Box Office this weekend:

Entertainment's low cost blockbuster Twilight opened huge as expected because of heavy pre-sales with $35.7M Friday from 3,419 theaters, including $7M worth of Thursday midnight shows, for what should be $75M for its first North American weekend in release. Fangirls -- or should I say fang-girls -- were buying 5 Twilight tickets per second as of early Friday morning, making Twilight online ticket-seller Fandango's fastest-selling film since The Dark Knight last July.

--Nikki Finke’s Deadline Hollywood Daily » NO SEX, VIOLENCE OR STARS, YET #1: ‘Twilight’ Takes Biggest $35.7M Bite Out Of Box Office Friday; Bond #2, ‘Bolt

The sequel has already been greenlit.

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