“The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn–Part 1” took the box office for the second week, eclipsing Disney’s reboot of “The Muppets.” Over the extended holiday the film took in $62.3 million and pushing its worldwide cume to nearly $500 million. “The Muppets” beat a number of family films to take second place with $42 million restoring the icons to the big screen after more than a decade.
The Top-12 grossing motion pictures for the weekend, per data collected as of Sunday, November 27, 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 | 42,000,000 | 221,303,162 | 4,066 | 10,329 |
2 | Muppets, The | Disney | 29,500,000 | 42,000,000 | 3,440 | 8,575 |
3 | Happy Feet 2 | Warner Bros. | 13,400,000 | 43,773,387 | 3,611 | 3,710 |
4 | Arthur Christmas | Sony | 12,700,000 | 16,950,000 | 3,376 | 3,761 |
5 | Hugo | Paramount | 11,350,000 | 15,380,000 | 1,277 | 8,888 |
6 | Jack And Jill | Sony | 10,300,000 | 57,417,000 | 3,029 | 3,400 |
7 | Immortals | Relativity Media | 8,800,000 | 68,632,100 | 2,677 | 3,287 |
8 | Puss In Boots | Paramount | 7,450,000 | 135,361,000 | 3,005 | 2,479 |
9 | Tower Heist | Universal | 7,323,040 | 65,384,540 | 2,474 | 2,960 |
10 | Descendants, The | Fox Searchlight | 7,200,000 | 10,740,894 | 433 | 16,628 |
11 | J. Edgar | Warner Bros. | 4,950,000 | 28,822,227 | 1,910 | 2,591 |
12 | My Week With Marilyn | The Weinstein Company | 1,773,000 | 2,085,000 | 244 | 7,266 |