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...Moon madness began with a thunderclap: it earned $26.2 million just in its midnight-Thursday shows. This was another new record, and it exceeded the entire weekend gross of five of the No. 1 pictures of autumn: Tyler Perry's I Can Do Bad All By Myself, Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs (in its second frame in the top slot), Michael Jackson's This Is It, Paranormal Activity and the horror comedy Zombieland. That last stat should end, for now, the question of whether zombies are the new vampires. These days, with Wolverine hogging DVD shelves and Jason...
...size of New Moon's boodle left the industry's box-office handicappers flummoxed. Like crazed billionaires trying to outbid one another for an evening with Angelina Jolie, they kept jacking up their weekend estimates as New Moon broke record upon record, day by day. On Thursday the smart money was on a $100 million opening; on Friday the ante was raised to $120 million, and on Saturday they finally got it right. Of course, the $140.7 million is simply another estimate: Summit Pictures' Sunday-morning guess at Sunday evening's take. The real number, released tomorrow afternoon, could...
...inspirational sports drama The Blind Side. Based on another book (Michael Lewis's bio of Michael Oher, a troubled black youth, adopted by a white couple, who became a college football star and NFL rookie), The Blind Side would have won the box-office race almost any other fall weekend, and gave Sandra Bullock the biggest opening of her career. Also impressive was the $11 million amassed by the African-American drama Precious in only 629 theaters. (New Moon played on 4,024 screens.) Precious now looks to join Paranormal Activity as the year's top indie hits, and should...
Here are the weekend's top-grossing pictures in North American theaters, as reported by Box Office Mojo.com...
...Twilight Saga: New Moon, $140.7 million, first weekend 2. The Blind Side, $34.5 million, first weekend 3. 2012, $26.5 million; $108.2 million, second week 4. Planet 51, $12.6 million, first weekend 5. Disney's A Christmas Carol, $12.2 million; $79.8 million, third week 6. Precious, Based on the Novel "Push" By Sapphire, $11 million; $21,4 million, third week 7. The Men Who Stare at Goats, $2.8 million; $27.6 million, third week 8. Couples Retreat, $2 million; $105 million, seventh week 9. The Fourth Kind, $1.7 million; $23.3 million, third week 10. Law Abiding Citizen, $1.6 million; $70 million, sixth...