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Moviegoers stuffed themselves on a diverse buffet of movies at the Thanksgiving box office, with overall revenues ringing in it at a record $290 million for the Wednesday through Sunday stretch, easily surpassing the $270.5 collected in 2009. “The Twilight Saga: Break Dawn Part II”, “Skyfall”, and “Lincoln” all drew large audiences to take the top three spots at the box office.
Despite the record-breaking weekend, “Rise of the Guardians” and “The Man With The Iron Fist” both underperformed, missing estimates.
The top 12 films of the weekend, as of Sunday, November 25, are as follows:
| RANK | TITLE | DISTRIBUTOR NAME | WEEKEND REVENUE | CUME REVENUE | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| REVENUE | # OF LOCATIONS* | LOC AVG | ||||
| 1 | Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part 2 | Lionsgate | $43,070,000 | 4,070 | 10,582 | $226,950,682 |
| 2 | Skyfall | Sony | $36,000,000 | 3,526 | 10,209 | $221,720,000 |
| 3 | Lincoln | Disney | $25,020,000 | 2,018 | 12,398 | $62,177,000 |
| 4 | Rise Of The Guardians | Paramount | $24,025,000 | 3,653 | 6,576 | $32,607,000 |
| 5 | Life Of Pi | 20th Century Fox | $22,000,000 | 2,927 | 7,516 | $30,150,000 |
| 6 | Wreck-It Ralph | Disney | $16,760,000 | 3,259 | 5,142 | $149,512,000 |
| 7 | Red Dawn | FilmDistrict | $14,600,000 | 2,725 | 5,357 | $22,004,000 |
| 8 | Flight | Paramount | $8,600,000 | 2,638 | 3,260 | $74,880,000 |
| 9 | Silver Linings Playbook | The Weinstein Company | $4,623,000 | 367 | 12,596 | $6,450,643 |
| 10 | Argo | Warner Bros. | $3,875,000 | 1,255 | 3,087 | $98,114,000 |
| 11 | Taken 2 | 20th Century Fox | $975,000 | 763 | 1,277 | $136,502,898 |
| 12 | Anna Karenina | Focus Features | $831,732 | 66 | 12,602 | $1,464,977 |
