Thanksgiving weekend provided strong box office numbers and THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN: PART II as the leader of the pack. Reports are coming in that over the course of the long weekend, a total of $290 million was made in ticket sales.
The final “Twilight” movie made $64 million between Wednesday and Sunday, bringing the film to an overall total of $227 million domestically. For the three-day total, THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN: PART II brought in $43.1 million.
Daniel Craig’s James Bond movie, SKYFALL continued its box office success. The 007 film took the number two spot, making $51 million over the five days (its three-day weekend total was $36 million). Now at a total gross of $221.7 million, SKYFALL became the first James Bond movie to earn more than $200 million. The worldwide cume now stands at $577.8 million. Lionsgate has now surpassed the $1 billion mark internationally and domestically.
Spielberg’s LINCOLN, starring Daniel Day-Lewis as the former president, had a strong weekend and took the number three spot. The Oscar hopeful saw five-day earnings of $34.1 million, with the three-day gross totaling $25.1 million. The movie has earned $62.2 million since its opening.
Other films that made a mark at the box office were RISE OF THE GAURDIANS and LIFE OF PI. The animated RISE OF THE GAURDIANS was number four for the weekend, making $24 million for the three-day total. The holiday-themed flick cost $145 million to produce. Ang Lee’s LIFE OF PI had an opening weekend of $22 million over three days. The film adaptation of Yann Martel’s 2001 novel by the same name has received strong critical acclaim.
The top-12 domestic weekend box office estimates listed in descending order, per data collected as of Sunday, November 25, 2012 are below.
- Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part 2 – Lionsgate – $43.1M
- Skyfall – Sony – $36.0M
- Lincoln – Disney – $25.0M
- Rise Of The Guardians – Paramount – $24.0M
- Life Of Pi – 20th Century Fox – $22.0M
- Wreck-It Ralph – Disney – $16.8M
- Red Dawn – FilmDistrict – $14.6M
- Flight – Paramount – $8.6M
- Silver Linings Playbook – The Weinstein Company – $4.6M
- Argo – Warner Bros. – $3.9M
- Taken 2 – 20th Century Fox – $1.0M
- Anna Karenina – Focus Features – $0.8M
Full details regarding the global domestic and international box office results are listed in the table below.
| Weekend BO Estimate (USD) | |||||
| Title | Worldwide | Int’l | Domestic | Worldwide | Int’l |
| Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part 2 | 140,570,000 | 97,500,000 | 43,070,000 | 577,750,682 | 350,800,000 |
| Skyfall | 77,300,000 | 41,300,000 | 36,000,000 | 790,120,000 | 568,400,000 |
| Life Of Pi | 39,500,000 | 17,500,000 | 22,000,000 | 47,650,000 | 17,500,000 |
| Rise Of The Guardians | 34,025,000 | 10,000,000 | 24,025,000 | 46,107,000 | 13,500,000 |
| Lincoln | 25,020,000 | – | 25,020,000 | 62,177,000 | – |
| Wreck-It Ralph | 18,860,000 | 2,100,000 | 16,760,000 | 190,712,000 | 41,200,000 |
| Red Dawn | 14,600,000 | – | 14,600,000 | 22,004,000 | – |
| Argo | 9,875,000 | 6,000,000 | 3,875,000 | 148,114,000 | 50,000,000 |
| Flight | 9,323,000 | 723,000 | 8,600,000 | 78,280,000 | 3,400,000 |
| Silver Linings Playbook | 6,223,000 | 1,600,000 | 4,623,000 | 8,050,643 | 1,600,000 |
| Hotel Transylvania | 5,860,000 | 5,500,000 | 360,000 | 291,384,000 | 147,900,000 |
| Werewolf Boy, A | 4,200,000 | 4,200,000 | – | 37,000,000 | 37,000,000 |
| Don’t Cry, Mommy | 3,600,000 | 3,600,000 | – | 3,615,000 | 3,615,000 |
| Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo | 3,600,000 | 3,600,000 | – | 17,600,000 | 17,600,000 |
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