Box Office, The Twilight Saga: Eclipse | featured news

Sure, Twilight Saga: Eclipse dropped from its crazy opening day of $68.5 million, and yes, The Last Airbender has been destroyed by critics. Even so, the holiday weekend’s two new wide releases scored enough business to make this year’s Fourth of July box office bigger than what Ice Age 3 and Public Enemies brought in at this time last year.

1. The Twilight Saga: Eclipse looks like $28.2M Friday after making $24.2M Thursday and opening to $68.5M Wednesday from 4,416 dates for a new cume of $120.9M. That could be $77.5M for the 3-day weekend, and $110M for the 5 days with a total of $178M for the 6-day July Fourth Holiday since Wednesday. However, one rival studio thinks Eclipse can get to a record-shattering $187M for the 6-day holiday. Yowza! That would put the pic well ahead of Spider-Man 2 which holds the July 4th holiday record with $180M. Overseas, Summit says Eclipse has opened to $19M from 22 territories.