New Moon, the second movie in the Twilight franchise seems to be clocking up record advanced ticket sales.

Don't forget, we're only at Thursday morning here (so this data comes from Wednesday) and New Moon doesn't even open until Friday night. So these numbers of advance ticket sales are sure to rise from here.

Also note that these numbers for New Moon ticket sales are solely to do with the UK, a much smaller market.

TWILIGHT sequel New Moon has taken £1million before even being released – as the fastest advance-selling film of the year.

Odeon and UCI cinemas reported that it had already sold 143,000 tickets.

The
movie, starring ROBERT PATTINSON as vampire Edward Cullen and KRISTEN
STEWART as lovelorn student Bella Swan, goes on national release on
Friday.

That's pretty good showing for a movie about a vegetarian vampire who twinkles, isn't it?

Ho hum, I guess that means we're condemned to at least a decade of this franchise as the writer pumps out more books and they make movies of each and every one.