Vampire sequel "The Twilight Saga: New Moon" registered one of the year's highest box office opening takes, making 11.68 million pounds in weekend ticket sales, according to Screen International on Tuesday. Skip related content
That is nearly double the Autumn's two other blockbusters, "2012" and "Up" but still short of the 2009 record opening 19.8 million set in July by "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince."
Based on the second of Stephenie Meyer's four Twilight books, New Moon, with Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner, blew disaster movie 2012 off the top spot and down into second place.
Walt Disney's high-tech adaptation of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol," was also down one place, at three.
"Harry Brown" slipped a spot to four with Michael Caine as a retired soldier out for justice after the murder of his best friend.
"Up" was down at five from four while the stop-motion animated version of Roald Dahl's "Fantastic Mr Fox" stayed at six.
"The Men Who Stare at Goats," a military farce with George Clooney and Jeff Bridges, was down two at seven, just above newcomer "A Serious Man" by Joel and Ethan Coen, a black comedy set on campus in 1967, which made its debut at eight.
Alien abduction thriller "The Fourth Kind" was down one at nine while Matt Damon came in at 10 as "The Informant!"
Tributes have been paid to a schoolgirl who died after slipping in her high heels and falling under a train while waving goodbye to her friends.
