The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn–Part 1 opened with a sharp bite around the globe, grossing $139.5 million domestically. Breaking Dawn wasn’t able to quite match the $142.8 million opening of The Twilight Saga: New Moon on the same weekend two years ago. However,Breaking Dawn made up for the gap at the international box office, where it opened day and date in 54 territories.New Moon opened day and date in only 25 territories, earning roughly $132.5 million.
The Top-12 grossing motion pictures for the weekend, per data collected as of Sunday, November 20, 2011 are as follows:
Rank | Film Name | Distributor Name | Weekend Revenue | Cume Revenue | Locs | Loc Avg |
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1 | Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, The | Summit Entertainment | 139,500,000 | 139,500,000 | 4,061 | 34,351 |
2 | Happy Feet 2 | Warner Bros. | 22,025,000 | 22,025,000 | 3,606 | 6,107 |
3 | Immortals | Relativity Media | 12,252,000 | 52,979,930 | 3,120 | 3,926 |
4 | Jack And Jill | Sony | 12,000,000 | 41,027,906 | 3,438 | 3,490 |
5 | Puss In Boots | Paramount | 10,725,000 | 122,312,562 | 3,415 | 3,140 |
6 | Tower Heist | Universal | 6,957,830 | 53,391,605 | 2,942 | 2,365 |
7 | J. Edgar | Warner Bros. | 5,900,000 | 20,694,694 | 1,947 | 3,030 |
8 | Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas, A | Warner Bros. | 2,900,000 | 28,332,846 | 1,808 | 1,603 |
9 | In Time | 20th Century Fox | 1,675,000 | 33,418,841 | 1,367 | 1,225 |
10 | Descendants, The | Fox Searchlight | 1,222,344 | 1,301,544 | 29 | 42,149 |
11 | Paranormal Activity 3 | Paramount | 1,000,000 | 102,618,677 | 1,402 | 713 |
12 | Footloose | Paramount | 835,000 | 50,140,680 | 1,218 | 685 |