The week after Thanksgiving is seen as a bit of a dead time at the box office, and so the only new movie opening wide in the US was The Warrior's Way, which no one expected to do that well, and ended up in ninth place on the box office chart, taking only $3.0 million.
That meant it was up to the holdovers to fight it out, with Disney's Tangled emerging on top, taking $21.5 to top the chart in its second weekend. It replaced Harry Potter 7, which tumbled to $15.7 million and second spot on the chart. That follows the typical pattern on Potter in the States, with a huge first weekend and then a quick falloff. It's taken $244 million so far, a good but not astounding figure.
However it's internationally that Potter makes its big bucks, and the movie has already grossed $469.1 million outside the States, for a total of $713 million in less than three weeks, meaning it's already the sixth highest grossing movie of the year so far around the world.
The rest of the US chart just saw movies slip up and down a few places, so take a look below for the US box office top 10 for the weekend of December 3rd-5th.
| Rank |
Title |
Weekend Gross (millions) |
Total Gross to date (millions) |
| 1 |
Tangled |
$21.5 |
$96.4 |
| 2 |
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 |
$15.7 |
$244.2 |
| 3 |
Burlesque |
$6.1 |
$26.9 |
| 4 |
Unstoppable |
$6.1 |
$68.8 |
| 5 |
Love and Other Drugs |
$5.7 |
$22.6 |
| 6 |
Megamind |
$5.0 |
$136.7 |
| 7 |
Due Date |
$4.2 |
$90.9 |
| 8 |
Faster |
$3.8 |
$18.1 |
| 9 |
The Warrior's Way |
$3.0 |
$3.0 |
| 10 |
The Next Three Days |
$2.6 |
$18.3 |