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Terms and conditions apply. * Savings buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Savings Account. * No ATM fees from Ally Bank at Allpoint and Moneypass ATMs plus we reimburse for fees charged by other ATM owners nationwide up to $10 per statement cycle. * Early direct deposit offers eligible direct deposits up to two days sooner. * Spending buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Spending Account. by [Richard Corliss](https://time.com/author/richard-corliss/) Nov 29, 2009 5:00 AM UTC  Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart in a scene from The Twilight Saga: New Moon Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart in a scene from The Twilight Saga: New MoonKimberley French / Summit Entertainment / AP by [Richard Corliss](https://time.com/author/richard-corliss/) Nov 29, 2009 5:00 AM UTC Vampires, werewolves and dewy teen girls continued their profitable prowl through the multiplexes, as _The Twilight Saga: New Moon_ was No. 1 for the long holiday weekend. The second film in the _Twilight_ quartet racked up $42.5 million for the usual Friday-to-Sunday frame and $66 million during the five-day Thanksgiving span. The Stephenie Meyer phenomenon has now taken in $230.7 million in North American theaters, according to studio estimates. That makes it, after just 10 days, the sixth highest-grossing movie of 2009\. _New Moon_ has amassed even more abroad, $243 million, which suggests it will cross the half-billion-dollar worldwide mark in its first two weeks. Not bad for an upstart indie distributor, Summit, and for a movie that cost just $50 million to produce. [(See pictures of the _New Moon_ actors.)](https://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1939314,00.html) But if movies were football teams squaring off for a big game, _New Moon_ would not have covered the spread against that dogged underdog, _The Blind Side_. The inspirational sports drama, made for just $29 million, earned a stalwart $41 million in three days and $57.5 million in five. Whereas _New Moon_‘s revenue fell 70% from last weekend’s neck-swiveling $142.8 million take, _The Blind Side_‘s tally increased about 18% in its second weekend. Word of mouth has been great — CinemaScore’s poll of exiting moviegoers gave it a gold-star A+ — and Sandra Bullock’s recently burnished star quality made this the rare sports movie that appeals to women as much as to men. Combine the grosses for _The Blind Side_, Bullock’s summer comedy hit _The Proposal_ ($164 million) and the throwaway _All About Steve_ ($33.8 million), and the 45-year-old star has earned nearly $300 million at the domestic box office so far this year. She’s a bigger draw, you could say, than any two 22-year-old cuties, male or female. Chalk up part of _The Blind Side_‘s success to a condition that might be called seasonal affection. With the big college teams fighting for conference championships and audiences in a beneficent holiday mood, the mass audience must have figured it was downright Thanksgiving-y to see a real-life uplifter about a crack addict’s son who is adopted by a nice white couple and pulls himself up to be a star tackle at Ole Miss. (Sort of _Rudy_ meets _Precious_.) It doesn’t hurt that the movie’s subject, Michael Oher, graduated impressively from college to the NFL. As a starting right tackle for the Baltimore Ravens, he is ranked second on ESPN.com’s Rookie Watch and is a possible Pro Bowl selection in his first year. Fans of the movie should note that the Ravens’ Sunday game was on NBC. We wonder if there’s an over-under line on the number of times the announcers mention _The Blind Side_. The extra days off gave audiences a chance to catch up on hits they’d missed; four of the session’s top five slots were occupied by holdovers. The apocalyptic travesty _2012_ landed in third place. In less than three weeks it has earned $486.9 million worldwide, 71% coming from overseas. (The movie has something for folks everywhere: Europe and Asia get destroyed along with the U.S.) After biding its time since early November, _A Christmas Carol_ saw a 30% bump from the previous weekend, to finish fifth. Audiences decided, since they had started their Christmas shopping, that it might be time to see a holiday movie. Robert Zemeckis’ CGI spectacular, which cost at least $200 million (as did _2012_), still has a way to go to break even: 26 moviegoing days until Dec. 25\. [(See cinematic visions of the apocalypse.)](https://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1938693,00.html) Did anyone see new movies this weekend? A few people. _Old Dogs_ — the semi-geezer semi-comedy that teamed the director (Walt Becker) and one of the stars (John Travolta) of the surprise hit _Wild Hogs_ with aging jackanapes Robin Williams — cadged a modest $16.8 for the three days. And the mayhem-festooned action film _Ninja Assassin_ was the decade’s lowest-grossing opening for the Wackowski brothers, once renowned for _The Matrix_. Its $13.1 million three-day gross was considerably below not only _V for Vendetta_ but the widely reviled (and, take one stubborn critic’s word for it, visually enthralling) _Speed Racer_. The only upside for _Old Dogs_ and _Ninja Assassin_ is that they didn’t cost much to make: $35 to $40 million each. In more specialized fare, Wes Anderson’s stop-motion-animation delight _Fantastic Mr. Fox_, with George Clooney contributing his voice to the Roald Dahl children’s classic, purloined a so-so $7 million in its first weekend of wide release; it earned about the same per-screen average as the much feebler animated feature _Planet 51_. _The Road_, with Viggo Mortensen enduring many a hardship in the film version of Cormac McCarthy’s post-apocalyptic novel, took in a sturdy $1.5 million at 111 theaters, to finish a mere $10,000 behind Clooney’s 10th-place _The Men Who Stare at Goats_. In a special engagement at single theaters in New York City and Los Angeles, Disney’s old-style animated feature _The Princess and the Frog_ pulled in $712,000\. If it keeps that up, it will truly be Disney magic. Here are the 10 top-grossing pictures in North American theaters, as reported by Box Office Mojo. We list the estimated totals for both the weekend (Friday-Sunday) and the five-day Thanksgiving frame (Wednesday-Sunday). 1\. _The Twilight Saga: New Moon_, $42.5 million weekend, $66 million five days; $230.7 million, second week 2\. _The Blind Side_, $40.1 million weekend, $57.5 million five days; $100.3 million, second week 3\. _2012_, $18 million weekend, $25.6 million five days; $138.8 million, third week 4\. _Old Dogs_, $16.8 million weekend, $24.1 million five days; first week 5\. _A Christmas Carol_, $16 million weekend, $22.6 million five days; $105.4 million, fourth week 6\. _Ninja Assassin_, $13.1 million weekend, $21 million five days; first week 7\. _Planet 51_, $10.2 million weekend, $13.9 million, five days; $28.5 million, second week 8\. _Precious_, $7.1 million weekend, $9.4 million five days; $32.5 million, fourth week 9\. _Fantastic Mr. Fox_, $7 million weekend, $9.5 million five days; $10.1 million, third week 10\. _The Men Who Stare at Goats_, $1,533,000 weekend, $2.2 million five days; $30.6 million, fourth week. _The Road_, $1,523,000 weekend, $2 million five days, first week [See the best Disney animated movies.](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/guides/best%5Fdisney%5Fanimated%5Fmovies/) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6910529/box-office-new-moon-takes-a-hit-on-the-blind-side/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6910529/box-office-new-moon-takes-a-hit-on-the-blind-side/"},"headline":"Box Office: New Moon Takes a Hit on The Blind Side","datePublished":"2009-11-29T05:00:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-22T16:08:10.677Z","description":"Vampires, werewolves and dewy teen girls continued their profitable prowl through the multiplexes, as The Twilight Saga: New Moon was No. 1 for the long...","url":"https://time.com/archive/6910529/box-office-new-moon-takes-a-hit-on-the-blind-side/","keywords":[],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6e03cbb49a72060c/698a4b5016d8840b45c3d7f7/360_twilight_bo_1120.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Richard Corliss","url":"https://time.com/author/richard-corliss/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6e03cbb49a72060c/698a4b5016d8840b45c3d7f7/360_twilight_bo_1120.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"360_twilight_bo_1120.jpg","caption":"Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart in a scene from The Twilight Saga: New Moon","creditText":"Kimberley French / Summit Entertainment / AP","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/archive/6910529/box-office-new-moon-takes-a-hit-on-the-blind-side/","name":"Box Office: New Moon Takes a Hit on The Blind Side"}}]}] ```