Weekend Box Office: Eclipse debuts at #1

Weekend Box Office

July 2 - 4, 2010

(Weekend Gross / Total Gross)

1. The Twilight Saga: Eclipse
($69,000,000 / debut)*

2. The Last Airbender
($40,650,000 / debut)

3. Toy Story 3
($30,174,000 / $289,000,000)

4. Grown Ups
($18,500,000 / $77,082,000)

5. Knight and Day
($10,200,000 / $45,508,000)

6. The Karate Kid
($8,000,000 / $151,523,000)

7. The A-Team
($3,025,000 / $69,116,000)

8. Get Him To The Greek
($1,185,000 / $57,427,000)

9. Shrek Forever After
($799,000 / $232,182,000)

10. Cyrus
($770,000 / $1,488,000)

Few notes about this week's milestones:

• Eclipse ripped into the record books with its midnight launch, grossing over $30 million, surpassing the previous benchmark posted by New Moon last year at $26.3 million.
• Eclipse's first day gross of $68.5 million was the second-best opening-day haul ever, behind its predecessor, last year's New Moon, which opened with $72.7 million.
• Eclipse's three-day weekend gross of $69 million ranked as the third highest-grossing Independence Day opening weekend ever, behind Spiderman 2 and Transformers. 
• In five days, Eclipse has pulled in $161 million, ranking as the seventh highest-grossing five-day start ever.
• The Last Airbender stood as writer-director M. Night Shyamlan's third highest-grossing opening behind Signs and The Village.