Ah! 'Blind Side' beats 'New Moon' on Thanksgiving!
Friday, November 27, 2009 at 11:40AM | By Franck Tabouring 
This comes as a surprise to me. Sandra Bullock's family drama "The Blind Side" beat "The Twilight Saga: New Moon" at the North American box office on Thanksgiving Day, scoring a gross of $9.5 million.
"New Moon," which has been leading the box office every day since its big opening, only bagged $9.2 million Thursday. It's domestic total is now up to $188.4 million; "Blind Side" reached $60.1 million.
At No. 3, new entry "Ninja Assassin" picked up $4.6 million Thursday, bringing its early total haul to $7.9 million. Following in fourth place with $4.2 million was "Old Dogs," which reached a cume of $7.3 million.
Meanwhile, Roland Emmerich's explosive action flick "2012" came in fifth with $4.1 million. "2012" brought its total gross to $120.9 million.
Sadly, Wes Anderson's stop-motion adventure "Fantastic Mr. Fox" only made it to No. 8 with $1.3 million. The film's cume currently stands at a low $2.5 million. That said, it's the best of all these films right now.
Source: The Hollywood Reporter
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"New Moon," which has been leading the box office every day since its big opening, only bagged $9.2 million Thursday. It's domestic total is now up to $188.4 million.
It's too bad they don't have statistics for unique viewings, I'm betting the new moon statistics would be substantially lower, we all know the twifags watch the movie multiple times in theatres.