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11/19/09: Six theaters were sold out for Thursday’s midnight premiere of The Twilight Saga: New Moon at the Majestic 10 in Williston.

A line that stretched around the building began earlier that day at 5pm.Twi-hards waited in the cold for hours to be the first to see New Moon.

New Moon sold a record number of midnight tickets totaling $26.27 million – this surpasses both Harry Potter and the Dark Knight.

New Moon cost 50 million to produce and in 4 days has grossed $285 million worldwide.

Music: Bad Flirt, “St Valentine’s Day Massacre”

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Seven Days senior multimedia producer Eva Sollberger has been making her award-winning video series "Stuck in Vermont" since 2007. In 2024, she won first place from the Association of Alternative Newsmedia for her video, “Barbie Collector.” She received...