Twilight Tops Weekend Box Office

‘Twilight’, a romantic-fantasy film directed by Catherine Hardwicke and based from the best-selling Vampire novel of Stephanie Meyer, has topped the weekend box office after raking in 70.6 million dollars.

Twilight also set a new record for the biggest opening for a film directed by a woman.

The top-grossing weekend films are:

1. Twilight, $70.6 million

2. Quantum of Solace, $27.4 milliion

3. Bolt, $27 million

4. Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa, $16 million

5. Role Models, $7.2 million

6. Changeling, $2.6 million

7. High School Musical 3: Senior Year, $2 million

8. Zack and Miri Make a Porno, $1.7 million

9. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, $1.67 million

10. The Secret Life of Bees, $1.3 million