After grossing a record-setting $30 million from midnight screenings, you didn’t need to be Nostradamus to realize that The Twilight Saga: Eclipse was going to smash some records over July 4th weekend. And so down goes the first one: Buoyed by those midnight showings, Eclipse banked $68.5 million on Wednesday, besting the gross of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen for biggest Wednesday in box office history. That wasn’t enough to top the $72 million opening day record held by New Moon , but it doesn’t sound like anyone is complaining. Except maybe Paramount and one Manoj Night Shyamalan.
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Eclipse Keeps Record-Setting Pace, The Last Airbender Does Not
