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Walt Disney’s 3-D revamped ver­sion of its 1991 ani­mated clas­sic Beauty And The Beast opened in sec­ond place in North Amer­i­can the­aters this week­end with $18.5 mil­lion, researcher Hollywood.com Box-Office said in an e-mailed state­ment Sun­day.
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Pixar-Disney’s sequel “Cars 2″ was the sev­enth most suc­cess­ful movie at the North Amer­i­can box office — and the only ani­mated film in the top 10 — accord­ing to Box Office Mojo, an online movie pub­li­ca­tion and box office report­ing ser­vice.
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Disney’s fam­ily film “The Mup­pets,” com­bin­ing pup­pet ani­ma­tion with live action, raised $42 mil­lion over the five-day Thanks­giv­ing week­end to open in sec­ond place at the North Amer­i­can box office.

The CG-enhanced The Mup­pets made $29.5 mil­lion over the three-day week­end in its first big-screen appear­ance in 12 years. Mean­while, the live-action The Twi­light Saga: Break­ing Dawn — Part 1 stayed at No. 1 in its sec­ond week­end, col­lect­ing $42 mil­lion in three days and $62.3 mil­lion from Wednes­day to Sunday.

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The vic­tory was nar­row, but “The Smurfs” stayed on top of the for­eign box office yet again this past weekend.

Com­bin­ing 3D ani­ma­tion and live action, The Smurfs grossed $15.6 mil­lion at 6,660 venues in 81 over­seas coun­tries. It’s the fifth week­end in a row that Sony Animation’s fam­ily film has emerged at No. 1 overseas.

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