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'New Moon' keeps top box office spot with $42.5M

Sun Nov 22, 2009 11:51 AM EST
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<p>Actress Kristen Stewart attends a special screening of 'The Twilight Saga: New Moon' hosted by the The Cinema Society and D&G on Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009 in New York. (AP Photo/Evan Agostini)</p>

Actress Kristen Stewart attends a special screening of 'The Twilight Saga: New Moon' hosted by the The Cinema Society and D&G on Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009 in New York. (AP Photo/Evan Agostini)

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LOS ANGELES — Vampires and werewolves continue to howl at the box office with a $42.5 million weekend for "The Twilight Saga: New Moon."

The "Twilight" sequel remains No. 1 for a second straight weekend, though it was nearly blind-sided for the top spot by a real-life football drama.

"The Blind Side" had a great second weekend with $40.1 million, coming in at No. 2 just behind "New Moon." The inspirational story of Baltimore Ravens tackle Michael Oher stars Sandra Bullock as a woman whose wealthy family takes in the homeless teen and enrolls him in private school.

While the weekend haul for "New Moon" dropped steeply from the movie's $142.8 million opening, "The Blind Side" actually went up from its $34.1 million first weekend.

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Paul Lucero

Makes we wish I was a 14 year old girl.

NOT!

    Reply#1 - Sun Nov 22, 2009 4:10 PM EST
    Keep.Cool.My.Babies

    Twilight made almost $300 million worldwide on its opening weekend. That is quite astonishing. But, I just learned that a video game (Modern Warfare 2) made over $310 million on its first day in America and Britain alone. We'll hear over and over how well Twilight did but the success of a single video game is overlooked. It is very interesting.

    As far as the movie itself goes, I live in L.A. and the crowds waiting to see it at The Grove were ridiculous. My boyfriend wants to see it, we saw the first one and he read all the books, so we'll see it eventually. Plus, I am more than a little "Dateline: To Catch a Predator" for that Taylor Lautner.

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    Reply#2 - Sun Nov 22, 2009 7:30 PM EST
    ERich-356044

    And oh my goodness..... he(Jacob) looks good in the movie. Lucky for him I am sooooo not into the cougar thing.... hehe...

    When he was on screen, all the females in the audience just gasped over those muscles. Made me blush!

      #2.1 - Tue Nov 24, 2009 3:43 PM EST
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