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Twilight saga Eclipse and The Last Airbender Dominates July 4th Weekend

Eclipse dominates the July 4th holiday weekend, as the third installment of the hit teen-romantic soap opera movie series launched with $69 million over the Fri-Sun portion.

The third installment of Eclipse is the third-biggest Independence Day opening weekend in history, after Spider-Man 2 with $88 million and Transformers $70 million.

The film has a potential to surpass the $180 million sixth day opening of Spider-Man 2 over the same six-day holiday weekend in 2004.

The second major movie of the weekend was the  debut of The Last Airbender. Showing once again that Paramount can release anything when they put their budget plus efforts into it. However  M. Night Shyamalan encountered negative feedbacks, but  the reviews certainly did not matter, even after  the controversy regarding the casting of white actors to play Asian characters.

This  must-see movie is the thirteenth-biggest Independence Day opening on record, and the film will likely end the holiday weekend with more or less $70 million.

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Tags: blockbuster movies, box-office, eclipse, independence day, july 4, july4th, last air bender, M. Night Shyamalan, twilight, twilight saga
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