Twilight Takes Another Bite From The Box Office

“The Twilight Saga: New Moon” took the top spot at the box office for a second week, with its $42.5 million weekend tally producing a remarkable $230.7 million in cumulative boxoffice through just its first 10 days in theaters. “New Moon” rung up $66 million over the Thanksgiving holiday despite a decline of 70%.

The twelve estimated top producing motion pictures for the weekend, per data collected as of Sunday, November 29, 2009 include:

1       The Twilight Saga: New Moon         42,500,000

2       The Blind Side                      40,125,000

3       2012                                18,000,000

4       Old Dogs                            16,846,000

5       Disney’s A Christmas Carol          16,003,000

6       Ninja Assassin                      13,135,000

7       Planet 51                           10,200,000

8       Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ 7,090,000

9       Fantastic Mr. Fox                   7,020,000

10      The Men Who Stare At Goats          1,533,000

11      The Road                            1,522,870

12      Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day  1,250,167