Eclipse Failed To Shatter Records

[Carlos Baez]

Rating: En Fuego™

Eclipse - The Twilight Saga overshadowed competition at the box office over the Independence Day weekend Jul0 2-04, 10, but failed to shatter records with a disappointing three-day haul of $69 million.

The third chapter in The Twilight Saga debuted last Wednesday Jun 30, ‘10 and looked poised to topple the five-day total set by last year's ‘09 Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.

But its popularity faltered even as families took advantage of the three-day holiday weekend, and Eclipse's five-day total of $161 million fell short of the $200 million mark set by Transformers - the record holder for
highest-earning movie opening on a Wednesday.

Meanwhile, M. Night Shyamalan's fantasy The Last Airbender was at two, pulling in almost $40.7 million in earnings on its debut weekend.

Toy Story 3 dropped from one to three, taking in almost $30.2 million in its third week.

Rounding out the top five are Adam Sandler's comedy Grown Ups and Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz's action comedy Knight and Day, which raked up $18.5 million and $10.2 million respectively.

The Karate Kid fell from four to six while there were also two place drops for The A-Team, Get Him To The Greek and Shrek Forever After as they ended the weekend at seven, eight and nine.

But there was good news for Jonah Hill and John C. Reilly's new comedy Cyrus as it moved up ten places to round off the top ten.

1. The Twilight Saga: Eclipse - $69,000,000

2. The Last Airbender - $40,650,000

3. Toy Story 3 - $30,174,000

4. Grown Ups - $18,500,000

5. Knight & Day - $10,200,000

6. The Karate Kid - $8,000,000

7. The A-Team - $3,025,000

8. Get Him To The Greek - $1,185,000

9. Shrek Forever After - $799,000

10. Cyrus - $770,000

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