New Moon earned an incredible $142 million during its first three days in release, moving the vampire love story into third place on the overall biggest opening weekend list. The second Twilight movie trails only The Dark Knight ($158 million) and Spider-Man 3 ($151 million) on the top earners list, surprising nearly everyone (except for some diehard Twilight fans). Also performing way above expectations was the Sandra Bullock football movie The Blind Side. New Moon and The Blind Side combined to help make their opening weekend the second biggest on record, in terms of overall box office take.Top 10 Films for the Weekend Ending November 22
1) New Moon - $142,839,137
2) The Blind Side - $34,119,372
3) 2012 - $26,410,206
4) Planet 51 - $12,286,129
5) Disney's A Christmas Carol - $12,275,024
6) Precious - $10,881,772
7) The Men Who Stare at Goats - $2,829,031
8) Couples Retreat - $1,943,075
9) The Fourth Kind - $1,747,085
10) Michael Jackson's This Is It - $1,617,417
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