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Twilight Rises Over Muppets

Twilight_New_Moon“The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn–Part 1” took the box office for the second week, eclipsing Disney’s reboot of “The Muppets.” Over the extended holiday the film took in $62.3 million and pushing its worldwide cume to nearly $500 million. “The Muppets” beat a number of family films to take second place with $42 million restoring the icons to the big screen after more than a decade.

The Top-12 grossing motion pictures for the weekend, per data collected as of Sunday, November 27, 2011 are as follows:

RankFilm NameDistributor NameWeekend RevenueCume RevenueLocsLoc Avg
1Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, TheSummit Entertainment42,000,000221,303,1624,06610,329
2Muppets, TheDisney29,500,00042,000,0003,4408,575
3Happy Feet 2Warner Bros.13,400,00043,773,3873,6113,710
4Arthur ChristmasSony12,700,00016,950,0003,3763,761
5HugoParamount11,350,00015,380,0001,2778,888
6Jack And JillSony10,300,00057,417,0003,0293,400
7ImmortalsRelativity Media8,800,00068,632,1002,6773,287
8Puss In BootsParamount7,450,000135,361,0003,0052,479
9Tower HeistUniversal7,323,04065,384,5402,4742,960
10Descendants, TheFox Searchlight7,200,00010,740,89443316,628
11J. EdgarWarner Bros.4,950,00028,822,2271,9102,591
12My Week With MarilynThe Weinstein Company1,773,0002,085,0002447,266

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