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 weekend, per data collected as of Sunday, November 22, 2009 include:
1 The Twilight Saga: New Moon 140,700,000
2 The Blind Side 34,510,000
3 2012 26,500,000
4 Planet 51 12,600,000
5 Disney’s A Christmas Carol 12,230,000
6 Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ 11,007,500
7 The Men Who Stare At Goats 2,773,000
8 Couples Retreat 1,951,680
9 The Fourth Kind 1,730,400
10 Law Abiding Citizen 1,615,000
11 Michael Jackson’s This Is It 1,575,000
12 Pirate Radio 1,448,919