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The downward turn for The Twilight Saga: New Moon was shortlived. The vampire sequel, already one of the year's top ten movies, was upended by The Blind Side on Friday, which indicates to me - based on the way it bounced back - that a lot of kids weren't allowed to leave the house on Thanksgiving. Look at Wednesday's $14 million, Friday's $17.9 million rebound, and Thursday's sub-$10 million output, and you can see one of these things is not like the others.

It took Twilight about five months to hit $192 million, its total domestic gross, but New Moon needed only eight days to cross $200 million, the sixth movie this year to do so. You really do have to give Summit a ton of credit for creating such a need and giving the audience what it wants. That's tough to do in any situation, but when you're essentially a start-up studio, you can't afford a Land of the Lost-sized miscalculation.

The Blind Side enjoyed a rare occurrence for a wide release, taking in more money on the second Friday than it did on opening day, according to Variety. The holiday had nearly everything to do with that, but it's still not terribly common, and it points to a film that will make gobs of money after the second weekend as opposed to peaking on its first two days in theaters.

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