14 DAY TRIAL // As millions of fans all over the world must already know by now, Summit Entertainment aired the first official trailer for “New Moon” on Sunday, at this year’s MTV Movie Awards. Since then and until the moment of writing, the video has been one of the hottest clips on the net, both on the official New Moon webpage and on YouTube, Deadline Hollywood Daily informs.
“These fresh stats are astounding. Summit Entertainment has a count of 4.2 million views for the ‘New Moon’ trailer from MySpace, and another 1.6 million from MTV.com, so that’s 5.8 million combined views in the first 24 hours from its two domestic online launch partners. By comparison, the 3rd (and last) trailer for ‘Twilight’ received 3.2 million views in its first 48 hours on MySpace, piddling compared to viewership for the sequel’s trailer.” DHD says.
However, this is not where the accomplishments of the “New Moon” trailer stop, as gossip blogger Perez Hilton also points out. When adding in all the numbers, it turns out that the trailer has actually brought in about 1 billion views in total so far, the blogger says, although he personally has not counted them all. Since Perez is usually on the money with these things, being the one celebrity blogger to have connections in all the right places, he might be in the right with this one as well, albeit his words must be taken with a grain of salt at all times.
“But then consider this: There is also several versions of the trailer on YouTube. The first one we found already had almost 3 million views! And that was only one! Plus, include the views on PerezHilton.com… We can’t even fathom the math! This thing is going to hit 1 billion views by next week, guaranteed.” Perez writes.
“New Moon,” the second installment in “The Twilight Saga,” will be released in US theaters in November. Shooting for it has reportedly wrapped, which means the movie is now going into post-production as the cast has about eight weeks or so until production for “Eclipse,” the third film, begins.