Breaking Dawn Breaks Fandango’s Mobile Ticket Sales Record

The latest flick in the Twilight saga is breaking records faster than wolf man Jacob can take off his shirt.

First, we learned The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part One scarfed up $283.5 million on opening weekend, topping its series predecessors on global ticket sales.

And now, the movie holds Fandango’s record for highest percentage of mobile movie tickets sold.Fandango revealed Monday that 22% of its Breaking Dawn tickets sales were purchased on mobile devices during the weekend. The previous percentage record belonged to Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2 (19%), which still has Fandago’s record for the largest quantity of mobile tickets sold.

“Mobile has changed the way we go to the movies,” says Rick Butler, Fandango’s EVP and general manager.

Mashable recently detailed Fandango’s “Mobile Ticket” feature that gives mobile ticket buyers a 2D barcode to present to theater ticket takers for a faster movie-going experience. The feature, along with the company’s mobile website redesign earlier in 2011, likely contributed to Breaking Dawn‘s Fandango record.

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New "Twilight" film breaks UK box office records

The Twilight vampires broke U.K. box office records over the weekend.

"The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1" grossed 13.9 million pounds ($21.8 million) on its 3-day weekend, according to U.K. and Irish distributor Entertainment One. That made it the biggest-ever opening for an American film in the U.K., fifth behind the British Harry Potter and James Bond series.

The fourth film in the "Twilight" series also had the best-ever U.K. 2D opening day Friday, surpassing "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1" by grossing 6.35 million pounds ($9.9 million) to Potter's 5.9 million pounds ($9.2 million).

"Breaking Dawn Part 1" now has the biggest opening for a film in the U.K. in 2011.

Directed by Bill Condon, its stars Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner and Kristen Stewart.

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10 most spoken languages in the World

1. Mandarin(Chinese)-845 million speakers
2. Spanish-329 million speakers
3. English-309 million
4. Hindi-Urdu-242 million
5. Arabic-221 million
6. Bengali-181 million
7. Portuguese-178 million
8. Russian-144 million
9. Japanese-132 million
10. German-90 million

source-siliconindia

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Tallest tower--Guinness World Records

• HEIGHT=634 metres
• Replaced Canton Tower in Guangzhou,China (HEIGHT=600 metres)
• Situated in Tokyo and will be open for public in May next year.
• Burj Khalifa sky scraper in Dubai (HEIGHT=828 metres) is the World's tallest structure as per GWR.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

Is this relieving...?

       

  After all there's been a news in the market that petrol prices in India will see a decline from tomorrow on-wards . From last year we have seen price hike in petrol for about 13 odd times and the recent hike was of Rs. 1.80 per litre and this is considered as the roll back from the government.

After deregulation of oil companies it's the first time they have announced the cut in petrol prices.The reduction will vary from state to state and in Delhi, petrol will be cheaper by Rs. 2.22 per litre.