New Moon Breaks Records Overseas
Variety reports on the huge sales of The Twilight Saga: New Moon advance tickets overseas -
Just how anticipated is “The Twilight Saga: New Moon” in Germany?
Ticket presales for the second installment in the teen vampire franchise, starring Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson, have shattered all previous records and crashed servers across the country as online ticket buyers swarmed exhib websites, according to local distrib Concorde Film.
More than 150,000 tix for the Summit pic have sold since they went on sale at midnight Saturday.
After just a few hours, demand exceeded the entire presales for Sony’s upcoming Michael Jackson concert pic “This Is It.”
“The idea for a purely online presale in the early hours was a huge success,” said Thomas Schuelke, marketing director at UCI Kinowelt exhib chain. “Our servers experienced some incredible pressure.”
