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”

This article appears in Nov 25 – Dec 1, 2009.

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 the Margaret L. (Peggy) Kannenstine Award for Arts Advocacy from the Vermont Arts Council in 2023. This map details her travels around the state; her 500th video was a musical. New episodes appear on the Seven Days website every other Thursday...