Mon Nov 30, 2009, 8:46 am EST
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Source: Reuters
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -
"The Twilight Saga: New Moon" rose to the top of movie box office charts for the second straight week on Sunday with a three-day haul of $42.5 million on a record-breaking holiday weekend in North America, according to studio estimates.
Over the five-day U.S. Thanksgiving holiday, the vampire romance starring Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner took in $66 million, pushing its two-week total in theaters to $230.7 million in North America, said independent studio Summit Entertainment, which backed the movie.
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Sun Nov 29, 2009, 12:41 pm EST
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Source: Reuters
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -
"The Twilight Saga: New Moon" rose to the top of movie box office charts for the second straight week on Sunday with a three-day haul of $42.5 million, pushing the film's total ticket sales to nearly $231 million in North America, according to studio estimates.
Over the five-day U.S. Thanksgiving holiday, the vampire romance starring Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner took in $66 million in North America, said independent studio Summit Entertainment that backed the movie.
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Sun Nov 08, 2009, 9:06 pm EST
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Source: AP
LOS ANGELES - Jim Carrey's Scrooge collected holiday donations from movie fans with his new take on "A Christmas Carol," which took in $31 million to open as the weekend's top movie.
The Disney animated version of the Charles Dickens classic knocked the King of Pop out of the No. 1 spot as "Michael Jackson's This Is It" slipped to second place with $14 million, according to studio estimates Sunday.
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Disney kick-started the holidays on Friday with the release of “Disney’s A Christmas Carol,” which led the boxoffice listings for the day as it took in an estimated $8.97 million in 3,683 locations in North America.
Director Robert Zemeckis’ latest motion-capture creation, the PG-retelling of Charles Dickens’ time-tested tale, with Jim Carrey playing Scrooge and other assorted roles, is unspooling in 3D in almost two-thirds of its playdates. While Saturday matinees will determine how strong the film is playing, its opening day fell well short of Carrey’s last Christmas movie, “How the Grinch Stole Christmas,” which bowed to $15.6 million on its opening Friday on Nov. 17, 2000.
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