1. The pundits are predicting that the teen vampire romance Twilight could gross as much as $70 million in its first weekend. If it comes anywhere close to that, then it will automatically have outgrossed all three of director Catherine Hardwicke‘s previous movies combined. Thirteen grossed $4,601,043 in 2003, Lords of Dogtown grossed $11,273,517 in 2005, and The Nativity Story grossed $37,629,831 in 2006. — Fantasy Moguls
2. Quantum of Solace grossed $67.5 million last week in its own opening weekend, and is thus now well on the way to making more than all of director Marc Forster‘s previous films combined. Monster’s Ball grossed $31,273,922 in 2001, Finding Neverland grossed $51,680,613 in 2004, Stay grossed $3,626,883 in 2005, Stranger Than Fiction grossed $40,660,952 in 2006, and The Kite Runner grossed $15,800,078 in 2007 — so Quantum of Solace would need to earn over $144 million to pass them all. And since the last two James Bond films, Die Another Day (2002) and Casino Royale (2006), both grossed over $160 million, it seems very likely that Quantum of Solace will do that, too. — Box Office Mojo
3. Tell No One, a pretty good thriller that was released in France two years ago but did not come to North American theatres until this past summer, has grossed $6.2 million and become the top-grossing foreign-language film of the year, so far. — Jeffrey Wells
4. Fireproof has now grossed over $30 million, reportedly making it “one of only six movies made with a budget of $500,000 or less to top that figure. Among the others: Benji and Napoleon Dynamite.” What are the other three films, I wonder? I figure The Blair Witch Project (1999) has to be one of them, at least, and an e-pal notes that the original Halloween (1978) ought to make the list, too. — Fireproof Blog
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