'Twilight' makes one of the largest presales in Hollywood's history.Byline: ANI New York, Nov 23 (ANI): Even before hitting movie theatres, more than 2,000 showings of teen vampire love story 'Twilight' had been sold out in United States - making one of the largest presales in big-screen history - a prominent ticket seller has said. According to movie ticketing outfit Fandango, the heavily hyped film is the third-most popular pre-sale flick in company history, trailing only "The Dark Knight" and top-selling "Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith." Jumping ahead of "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" and "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", "Twilight" grabbed Fandango's No. 3 spot for pre-sale supremacy. Fandango pre-sold out more than 50 "Twilight" showings in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. alone. "The impressive advance ticket sales are clearly the result of the growing Internet buzz from the novel's online fans," New York Post The New York Post is the 13th-oldest newspaper published in the United States and the oldest to have been published continually as a daily.[3] Since 1976, it has been owned by Australian-born billionaire Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation and is one of the 10 quoted Fandango COO Rick Butler, as saying. "We haven't had this kind of Internet buzz for a movie since 'Sex and the City' and 'Cloverfield,' " said movie-industry analyst Jeff Bock of Exhibitor Relations. (ANI) Copyright 2008 Asian News International The Asian News International (ANI) agency provides multimedia news to China and 50 bureaus in India. It covers virtually all of South Asia since its foundation and presently claims, on its official website, to be the leading South Asia-wide news agency. (ANI) - All Rights Reserved. Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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