A Weekend Box Office Premier To Sink Your Teeth Into

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) - Breaking Dawn broke big.

Installment number four in the Twilight series of vampire fantasies -- The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1 -- earned just under $140-million, not only finishing first on its debut weekend, but scoring the fifth biggest weekend opening in movie history.

Another new attraction -- the animated sequel, Happy Feet Two -- took second place with an otherwise solid first-weekend total of $22-million.

Returnees Immortals, Jack and Jill, and Puss in Boots rounded out the top five, each tallying over $10-million.

But the multiplex story this weekend was Breaking Dawn - Part 1, the many fans of which will now have to wait a full year for Part 2.

Thanks mostly to Breaking Dawn, industry-wide totals were significantly ahead of those on last year's counterpart weekend.

Reported by Bill Wine, KYW Newsradio 1060