The Twilight Saga: Eclipse' tops advance ticket sales

'The Twilight Saga: Eclipse' - Summit Entertainment

As was the case with The Twilight Saga: New Moon last year, The Twilight Saga: Eclipse is making a splash in advanced ticket sales, becoming the top pre-selling film event of the year for at least two major retailers: Fandango.com and MovieTickets.com.
Deadline Hollywood reports, "Eclipse leads the Fandango Five with over 52% of daily ticket sales, even with strong daily sales for Toy Story 3 and Karate Kid. MovieTickets.com is also reporting Eclipse online ticketing represent over 50% of daily sales."
This report falls in line with early estimates that placed Eclipse as the probable top film of the summer and year.
Another interesting tidbit offered by Deadline's report states that "59% of Eclipse online  ticket-buyers said they became fans of the series after seeing the first movie."
Finally, Deadline noted some of the demographic poll results offered by these sites and the split between age groups who have purchased Eclipse advance tickets is pretty even with "33% of respondents [at] 24 or younger, 34% of respondents [between] 25-34[, and] 27% of respondents [between] 35-49."