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Twilight: Breaking Dawn Takes Hug Bite Out Of Box Office

Twilight_New_MoonThe 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:

RankFilm NameDistributor NameWeekend RevenueCume RevenueLocsLoc Avg
1Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, TheSummit Entertainment139,500,000139,500,0004,06134,351
2Happy Feet 2Warner Bros.22,025,00022,025,0003,6066,107
3ImmortalsRelativity Media12,252,00052,979,9303,1203,926
4Jack And JillSony12,000,00041,027,9063,4383,490
5Puss In BootsParamount10,725,000122,312,5623,4153,140
6Tower HeistUniversal6,957,83053,391,6052,9422,365
7J. EdgarWarner Bros.5,900,00020,694,6941,9473,030
8Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas, AWarner Bros.2,900,00028,332,8461,8081,603
9In Time20th Century Fox1,675,00033,418,8411,3671,225
10Descendants, TheFox Searchlight1,222,3441,301,5442942,149
11Paranormal Activity 3Paramount1,000,000102,618,6771,402713
12FootlooseParamount835,00050,140,6801,218685

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