That's the biggest take ever for a midnight opening, breaking a record set by the second Twilight film, New Moon.
He reaches for the grandest of grand visions, like his proposal to build a base on the moon by his second term.
The third Transformers film, Dark of the Moon, was the second highest-grossing film of 2011.
For a second, it seemed as if the moon had crumbled like a meringue, but instead it rested there, half in and half out of the jaws of the bucket.
Producers Summit Entertainment has already announced a follow-up to the film, based on the second of Meyer's books, New Moon.
The next five years will also see China paving the way towards putting a human being on the Moon, making it only the second country to have done so.
Being the second country to have one of its citizens set foot on the Moon (after the U.S.) would be extremely valuable in terms of publicity and prestige alone.
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St Johnstone began the second half in the same attacking vein as they had the first, Moon blazing an effort wide.
Mr Ban Ki-moon has placed education at the top of his agenda in his second term as UN Secretary General, and at the heart of the new global sustainability agenda currently being defined.
They've got these PAs that you could hear on the moon and they're not even allowed to out put them into second gear.
Mr. GLEN FOUNTAIN (Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab): Leaving Earth, the New Horizons will be traveling at eight miles per second, and eight hours later, the spacecraft will pass the orbit of the moon.
Audemars Piguet breaks this rule by combining its Caliber 2885 self-winding split-second chronograph movement featuring a minute repeater, a perpetual calendar and a moon-phase indicator with the sporty 44mm Royal Oak Offshore case in brushed titanium with a black rubber strap.
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One theory for the difference between the Moon's far side and near side is an ancient collision with a second natural satellite of Earth.
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The exhibition in his honour, From the Moon to the Muckle Toon, was officially opened by David Stevenson - the second man to receive such an honour.
We mooned the moon and laughed ourselves hoarse, and I'm so incredibly grateful for every silly second.
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