New Moon Tops Box Office Again
Moviegoers gorged themselves on Thanksgiving leftovers in a record weekend boxoffice feast.
Summit Entertainment’s vampires-and-werewolves phenom “The Twilight Saga: New Moon” repeated atop the domestic boxoffice, with its $42.5 million weekend tally producing a remarkable $230.7 million in cumulative boxoffice through just its first 10 days in theaters. Facing down three pics unspooled midweek ahead of the Thursday holiday, “New Moon” rung up $66 million over the competitive five-day span despite a big weekend-over-weekend decline of 70%.
The Warner Bros.-distributed Sandra Bullock starrer “The Blind Side” — a college-football drama produced by Alcon Entertainment — had a smashing second weekend, posting an incredible 18% uptick from its first weekend to register $40.1 million in second place and a $100.3 million cume. “Blind Side” even blindsided “New Moon” for the top daily gross on Turkey Day.
The new pics opened further down the weekend rankings.