People lined up at movie theatres across the country for the world-premier of “The Twilight Saga: New Moon” on November 20, 2009.
People in the Jackson area lined up inside and the line continued outside to watch the mid-night premier at Jackson 10. Lines started to form at 10 p.m. and people were still arriving at mid-night.
About an hour into the movie, the film melted from the lamps. It caused two theatres to be out of commission at the same time. The manager acted quickly in the event and was able to get the film fixed and back up and running within 20 minutes.
For the following 30 minutes of the movie, the manager was watching the film and having to stop it two more times in attempts of fixing the film.
Many customers began to get up and leave the theatre. About 200 customers were in those theatres.
After the film, many customers stood at the front of the movie theatre asking for free tickets to return. The manager of Jackson 10 began filling out “Emergency Tickets”.
The next day, people continued to line up at Jackson 10 to watch the premier of “The Twilight Saga: New Moon.”
“New Moon”, based off of Stephanie Meyer’s book, had movie sales for the mid-night viewing at $26.3 million, according to ABCNews.com. The opening-day viewing brought in $72.7 million, which beat the previous record of $62.2 million with “The Dark Knight”, according to ABCNews.com.
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