Vampire romance "Breaking Dawn" on track for $140 million opening - eTaiwan News

TwiAddicts can't wait to go to theater to see "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1" this weekend.

According to Reuters, opening wide this weekend will be Warner Bros.' animated sequel "Happy Feet Two" and Fox Searchlight's Oscar hopeful "The Descendants." "Breaking Dawn" is predicted to fall short of the $169 million all-time record set by "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2" last summer, however, it should roughly match the distributor's highest-grossing opener, the $140 million posted by 2009's "New Moon." The studio predicts an opening weekend on the order of $125 million.

Summit has not revealed the number of theaters that plan to host midnight screenings. "It could easily exceed the $43.5 million benchmark set by "Deathly Hallows Part 2" in late night showings," studio executives told TheWrap.