According to Box Office Mojo, the combined worldwide total gross for Twilight, The Twilight Saga: New Moon, and The Twilight Saga: Eclipse is somewhere in the neighborhood of $1.8 billion (note: that's just box office - not including DVD/Blu-Ray sales, merchandising, TV rights, etc.).
New Moon brought in the highest total bank with over $709.8 million worldwide, but Eclipse was right behind it with about $698.5 million. Twilight was the kick-off for this franchise, but it debuted with an impressive $392.6 million.
The estimated budget for each was as follows: Twilight - $37 million; New Moon - $50 million; and Eclipse - $68 million.
TheWrap.com has uncovered a really interesting set of projections for The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1 and The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2 - revealed as part of a pending studio financing movie, apparently - including the estimated budgets for each as well as their projected intake.
According to their information, Part 1 is costing $127.5 million and Part 2, $136.2 million. As expected, the game is definitely being stepped up for these last two, budget-wise. Revenues are predicted to be semi-directly proportional to spending here as well, it seems, because the income expected to come from Part 1 and Part 2 lands at around $1.2 billion.
Coupling some of the totals noted above, one might notice that New Moon and Eclipse brought in a box office total of around $1.4 billion, so the expectations for Breaking Dawn are not out of the, pun, ballpark of history with this franchise at all. (Note also: As Twilight is so often compared to Harry Potter, it seems appropriate to mention that the second-to-last film in that series, Deathly Hallows - Part 1, just reached the milestone of beating out all of its predecessors on the international market.) Still, the estimates and anticipations are intriguing, if nothing else. Only time will truly tell how well these two fare at the box office, but given the sizeable fanbase already in place for this franchise and the unique offerings these two chapters of the Saga hold in store, $1.2 billion may very well be a conservative figure.
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