New Moon scores third biggest box office opening ever

The Twilight Saga: New Moon has recorded the third biggest opening in box office history grossing $140.7million.

The second film in the vampire series scored the record for single day performance earning $72.7 million in ticket sales on Friday.

The Dark Knight ($158 million) and Spiderman 3 ($151 million) are the only two movies to have scored bigger box office figures.

The Twilight series, based on Stephenie Meyer’s four best-selling novels, tells the story of a teenage girl named Bella who falls in love with a vampire.

The first Twilight film made $384 million in global ticket sales. Closely held Summit has the rights to all four books in Meyer’s series, and has already completed the third film, The Twilight Saga: Eclipse.

New Moon stars Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner and is about a small-town girl caught in a love triangle between a vampire and a werewolf.