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Overcoming universally bad reviews, “The Twilight Saga: New Moon” opened even bigger than projected with an estimated $140.7 million in domestic grosses. That represented the third-best bow ever, after 2008’s “The Dark Knight” ($158.4 million) and 2007’s “Spider-Man 3” ($151.1 million). The twelve estimated top producing motion pictures for the …

Moviegoers lined up for the end-of-the-world epic “2012,” which topped the weekend boxoffice with a heaping $65 million in opening domestic coin. Directed by Roland Emmerich (“Independence Day”), the effects-filled actioner cost $200 million to produce. But with a $225 million worldwide haul from simultaneous openings in 105 foreign territories, …