'New Moon' Takes Bite Out of Weekend Box Office, Pulls in $140.7 Million

'Twilight' Sequel 'New Moon' Posters Revealed
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After breaking opening day records, 'The Twilight Saga: New Moon' continued a successful weekend at the box office, grossing $140.7 million in its first three days domestically and a total of $258.8 million worldwide.

The Summit Entertainment film had one of the top 10 all-time openings, studio estimates show.

Sandra Bullock's Southern charm paid off in her new film 'The Blindside,' pulling in $34.5 million, while the disaster film '2012' came in at No. 3, making another $26.5 million.

Sony's alien adventure 'Planet 51' came in at No. 4, grossing an impressive $12.6 million. Rounding out the top five was 'Disney's A Christmas Carol,' pulling in another $12.2 million.

Published 11/22/09 by the Insider

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  • Wow. Way to support the display of an abusive relationship with an unattainable man as 'true love', America. Bill Hicks was right - chicks dig jerks.
    Anonymous 11/25/09 Reply
  • movie.
    Anonymous 11/25/09 Reply
  • Dude, this movie is gay and doesn't deserve all of this attention.

    Whoever likes Twilight is an emo fat girl.
    Anonymous 11/25/09 Reply
  • wow my ass anonymous ;)
    Anonymous 11/25/09 Reply
  • I wanna cum in my ass unh
    Anonymous 11/25/09 Reply
  • I liked Robert Pattinson's role as Cedric Diggory a LOT better than this...
    Anonymous 11/24/09 Reply
  • but can it beat the current record of $550M made from Modern Warfare 2?
    Anonymous 11/24/09 Reply
    • same
      Anonymous 11/24/09
  • I have lost all faith in humanity......
    Anonymous 11/24/09 Reply
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  • nice..
    JennalynJ 11/23/09 Reply
  • i love it :D ,,,,,i wish for them to contiue their fantastic work..
    by the way love robert....
    Anonymous 11/23/09 Reply
  • Great pr team work. Now can they stop with all the pr tricks and games to heavily promote this thing. Everyone made their money now give it a rest.
    Anonymous 11/22/09 Reply
  • it was an awesome movie!!!
    Anonymous 11/22/09 Reply
  • it was a great movie
    Anonymous 11/22/09 Reply
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