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“Tangled” Breaks Potter’s Box Office Spell

Disney’s “Tangled” based on the fable “Rapunzel” climbed her golden tresses to the top of the box office, knocking off former champion Harry Potter. The film garnered $21.5 million during the weekend to top chart in its second week of release.

Harry Potter held on to second place  bringing in  $16.7 million in the latest session for an incredible $244.2 million in cumulative box office through the action fantasy’s third weekend. That makes it the best performing film of the franchise

The Top-12 grossing motion pictures for the weekend, per data collected as of Sunday, December 5, 2010 are as follows:

RankFilm NameDistributor NameWeekend RevenueCume RevenueLocsLoc Avg
1TangledDisney21,500,00096,461,9213,6035,967
2Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows IWarner Bros.16,735,000244,235,6414,1254,056
3BurlesqueSony6,100,00026,956,5953,0372,008
4Unstoppable20th Century Fox6,100,00068,892,6703,1521,935
5Love And Other Drugs20th Century Fox5,700,00022,622,0772,4582,318
6MegamindParamount5,030,000136,704,3103,1731,585
7Due DateWarner Bros.4,215,00090,963,8522,4501,720
8FasterCBS Films3,828,90018,112,0302,4701,550
9Warrior’s Way, TheRelativity Media3,051,0003,051,0001,6221,881
10Next Three Days, TheLionsgate2,650,00018,381,0092,2361,185
11Morning GloryParamount1,780,00029,109,7232,263786
12127 HoursFox Searchlight1,600,0006,592,6244333,695

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