When an audience anticipates a film so heavily, it's easy to stay up until midnight and not reach your pillow until around 3am. Sometimes it's worth it and other times it's not... But what films have the top midnight box-office records? Believe it or not the top record is the film adaptation for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows- Part 2 with a grossing of 43.5 million for midnight showings, followed by films such as The Hunger Games, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, The Twilight Saga: New Moon, and The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. Most of the films out of the top 20 were either film adaptations of novels or comic books with a few exceptions. Not only does this tell film producers that a major income source is young audiences willing to venture to the theater late at night but also that film adaptations are highly anticipated. But why did film adaptations of novels and comic books hold the highest incomes for midnight showings? The fact that a novel has been presented to audiences before a film premieres, simply builds excitement and creates more of a frenzy towards the film. Readers of the novels or comic books have already built backgrounds on the story and have created an idea of what an ideal film would be somewhat like.
The anticipation to view the film adaptation may make audiences jittery or upset, either way, most readers and fans will want to view the film to see if it is anything similar compared to that imagined. Hollywood has reached a point where it seems to be true that film adaptations are one of the strongest routes to take. Maybe not all of the films won any Oscars but some did. Either way, the film adaptations are making a dent in filmmaking history.
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Top 20 midnight box-office records. (n.d.). Retrieved from LA Times website: http://www.latimes.com/
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The article displays the top 20 midnight box-office records including numbers from midnight showings and opening day earnings.
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