The Twilight Saga: Eclipse' opening week trails just behind 'New Moon'

Over the past few days, a lot of Twilight fans and media outlets have been paying close attention to the intake that The Twilight Saga: Eclipse has brought in on the domestic and worldwide fronts - particularly by comparison to the numbers with The Twilight Saga: New Moon.



Here are the latest statistics - this time, from Larry Richman with ProNetworks: another $10.5 million was earned on Tuesday, making the domestic total for Eclipse right around $187 million (worldwide at $287 million per Box Office Mojo).


This puts Eclipse's seven day (a week) long total inches below that of The Twilight Saga: New Moon ($188 million). It also places it at seventh biggest opening week overall, just behind New Moon in sixth place. In other words, naysayers can go on and on, but Eclipse is sturdily hanging on to the impressive showing its predecessors have put forth.


In all, New Moon brought in almost $710 million worldwide, and Twilight garnered $392.5 million worldwide. Considering Eclipse has only been out a week and has brought in nearly $300 million worldwide, things are certainly going well for this film where the box office is concerned - especially since, as Alt Film Guide reports, the Tuesday intake marked the lowest drop amongst the top ten from Monday's numbers.