The Twilight Saga: New Moon was unable to sustain its record breaking opening day ($72.7M) through the weekend, but still raked in an impressive $142.8M from a $50M budget. Not surprising, given that its predecessor is the highest-grossing vampire movie in history, with $384.99M worldwide – Van Helsing is second, God help us, with $300.25M. Opening simultaneously just about everywhere on the planet, its weekend global take (including US) was $274.93M.
Football tearjerker The Blind Side opened at #2 with $34.11M, while 2012 took an expected dive of 59% with $26.41M for a 10 day US total of $108.13M. At #4, the animated Planet 51 opened with a decent $12.28M and at #5 A Christmas Carol dropped 105 theaters and 45% with $12.27M, bringing a total of $79.83M as it enters its third week of release.
The rest of the chart holds little genre excitement as horror movies beat a post-Halloween retreat, The Fourth Kind limps along adding another $1.74M to its $23.35M haul, while Paranormal Activity (which debuts on DVD on December 29th) pulled in $1.40M for a nine week total of $106.08M.
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans opened at #22, with $245,398 in 27 theaters and Fantastic Mr Fox dropped 23.5% in its limited four theater run pulling in just $203,512, expect that to change this week as the film goes wide for Thanksgiving.
Red Cliff opened in two screens and earned $13,104, but like The House of the Devil (#84 with $3,927 on three screens) its money will more likely be earned from downloads – it's also available from amazon.com's Theatrical Rental program.
This week sees the opening of John Hillcoat's eagerly anticipated film of Cormac McCarthy's The Road, although this will also be a limited release (dammit!). James McTiegue's Ninja Assassin also debuts, along with Richard Linklater's Orson Welles and Me, John Travolta/Robin Williams vehicle Old Dogs and the drama The Private Lives of Pippa Lee.
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