Twilight is the new breed of Chick Flick

gossipchic.com - 27th Nov 2008

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Kristen Stewart: While offering some high-flying vampire battles, its main action centers on the developing romance between two teens played by relative unknowns Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson . Women and girls made up more than 75 percent of the film’s opening-weekend audience, according to Fandango.com , which sells tickets and conducts surveys about recent releases. With the movie’s stellar opening weekend — it trounced the celebrated $55.7 million opening of “Sex and the City” — studios ought to take notice of women’s continued ticket-buying power, said Paul Dergarabedian of box-office tracking firm Media By Numbers. “The word ‘chick flick’ is going to have to be replaced by big box-office girl-power flick,” he said. “The box-office clout of the female audience is just astounding, and it’s been an underserved audience for way too long. … They have no trouble finding money for the things they’re passionate about.” Merriam-Webster’s online dictionary defines chick flick as “a motion picture intended to appeal especially to women.” But “Twilight” is no lightweight date movie — instead, it’s a real-girl’s chick flick, where a normal-looking teenager finds romance with a modern (if undead) Prince Charming . “It’s the most insanely romantic film since ‘ The Notebook ,’” said Harry Medved, a spokesman for Fandango.com, who des

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