Twilight Eclipse grossed $7.93 million on Thursday, topping the North American box-office chart for the ninth consecutive day and crossing the $200m mark domestically, according to Box Office Mojo.
Directed by David Slade, written by Melissa Rosenberg (from Stephenie Meyer‘s novel), starring Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart, and Taylor Lautner, and featuring Bryce Dallas Howard, Kellan Lutz, Ashley Greene, Xavier Samuel, Dakota Fanning, and Peter Facinelli, among others, Eclipse‘s nine-day total currently stands at $203.66m.
Eclipse is currently on the #10 spot among the fastest movies to reach $200 million on the Box Office Mojo chart (not adjusted for inflation). This year, only Toy Story 3 is ahead on the chart, having crossed the $200m milestone with $208m on Day 9.
If inflation were taken into account, Eclipse would be down one spot at no. 11, following the 2002 release Spider-Man (with $202m on Day 9).
Chris Weitz‘s The Twilight Saga: New Moon, released in Nov. ’09, crossed the $200m mark with $205m on Day 8. New Moon is on the list’s no. 4 spot.
Avatar, Alice in Wonderland, and Iron Men 2 crossed the $200m mark only on Day 10 (which included two weekends). All three movies — and Toy Story 3 — have gone on to gross more than $300m domestically. (Avatar, of course, has taken in more than $700m.)
The top three movies on the list are The Dark Knight, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, and Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest.
The other movies that crossed the $200m mark on Day 9 are Spider-Man 3 and Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End.
