'Breaking Dawn' Lures Packs of Fans with $138.1 Million Opening Weekend

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1" put the bite on the weekend box office with a $138.1 million debut.

The top 20 movies at U.S. and Canadian theaters Friday through Sunday, followed by distribution studio, gross, number of theater locations, average receipts per location, total gross and number of weeks in release, as compiled Monday by Hollywood.com are:

1. "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1," Summit, $138,122,261, 4,061 locations, $34,012 average, $138,122,261, one week.

2. "Happy Feet Two," Warner Bros., $21,237,068, 3,606 locations, $5,889 average, $21,237,068, one week.

3. "Immortals," Relativity Media, $12,351,959, 3,120 locations, $3,959 average, $53,079,889, two weeks.

4. "Jack and Jill," Sony, $11,738,573, 3,438 locations, $3,414 average, $40,766,479, two weeks.

5. "Puss in Boots," Paramount, $10,804,311, 3,415 locations, $3,164 average, $122,391,873, four weeks.

6. "Tower Heist," Universal, $7,105,045, 2,942 locations, $2,415 average, $53,538,820, three weeks.

7. "J. Edgar," Warner Bros., $5,928,120, 1,947 locations, $3,045 average, $20,722,814, two weeks.

8. "A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas," Warner Bros., $2,902,434, 1,808 locations, $1,605 average, $28,335,280, three weeks.

9. "In Time," Fox, $1,710,692, 1,367 locations, $1,251 average, $33,454,533, four weeks.

10. "The Descendants," Fox Searchlight, $1,190,096, 29 locations, $41,038 average, $1,269,296, one week.

11. "Paranormal Activity 3," Paramount, $1,000,518, 1,402 locations, $714 average, $102,619,195, five weeks.

12. "Footloose," Paramount, $861,189, 1,218 locations, $707 average, $50,166,869, six weeks.

13. "Real Steel," Disney, $553,871, 702 locations, $789 average, $82,557,917, seven weeks.

14. "Like Crazy," Paramount Vantage, $522,352, 109 locations, $4,792 average, $1,767,358, four weeks.

15. "Moneyball," Sony, $512,387, 409 locations, $1,253 average, $72,641,291, nine weeks.

16. "The Ides of March," Sony, $460,272, 298 locations, $1,545 average, $39,100,143, seven weeks.

17. "Courageous," Sony, $430,493, 517 locations, $833 average, $32,338,471, eight weeks.

18. "Margin Call," Roadside Attractions, $423,554, 173 locations, $2,448 average, $3,915,791, five weeks.

19. "Martha Marcy May Marlene," Fox Searchlight, $384,642, 180 locations, $2,137 average, $2,258,429, five weeks.

20. "Melancholia," Magnolia, $337,530, 57 locations, $5,922 average, $709,212, two weeks.

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Universal and Focus are owned by NBC Universal, a unit of Comcast Corp.; Sony, Columbia, Sony Screen Gems and Sony Pictures Classics are units of Sony Corp.; Paramount is owned by Viacom Inc.; Disney, Pixar and Marvel are owned by The Walt Disney Co.; Miramax is owned by Filmyard Holdings LLC; 20th Century Fox and Fox Searchlight are owned by News Corp.; Warner Bros. and New Line are units of Time Warner Inc.; MGM is owned by a group of former creditors including Highland Capital, Anchorage Advisors and Carl Icahn; Lionsgate is owned by Lions Gate Entertainment Corp.; IFC is owned by Rainbow Media Holdings, a subsidiary of Cablevision Systems Corp.; Rogue is owned by Relativity Media LLC.

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