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The weekend estimates for &#8220;New Moon&#8221; will be available Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, new release &#8220;The Blind Side&#8221; was solid in second place Friday as star Sandra Bullock worked her magic with older women.  Despite being a football film, the movie played better with older females (59% of moviegoers were female) as it earned $10.9 million Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Holdover &#8220;2012&#8221; dropped significantly to $8.1 million Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"adace-sponsor":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&quot;Twilight: New Moon&quot; Sets Another Box Office Record, &quot;Blind Side&quot; Strong<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"After generating headlines for setting the midnight opening record, &quot;The Twilight Saga: New Moon&quot; achieved another record in its first full day of box\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2009\/11\/21\/twilight-new-moon-sets-another-box-office-record-blind-side-strong\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"&quot;Twilight: New Moon&quot; Sets Another Box Office Record, &quot;Blind Side&quot; Strong\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"After generating headlines for setting the midnight opening record, &quot;The Twilight Saga: New Moon&quot; achieved another record in its first full day of box\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2009\/11\/21\/twilight-new-moon-sets-another-box-office-record-blind-side-strong\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Headline Planet\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2009-11-22T02:25:24+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Brian Cantor\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@cantorpedia\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@headlineplanet\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2009\/11\/21\/twilight-new-moon-sets-another-box-office-record-blind-side-strong\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2009\/11\/21\/twilight-new-moon-sets-another-box-office-record-blind-side-strong\/\",\"name\":\"\\\"Twilight: New Moon\\\" Sets Another Box Office Record, \\\"Blind Side\\\" Strong\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2009-11-22T02:25:24+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2009-11-22T02:25:24+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/#\/schema\/person\/b530255b81ceb7463ea060a9b8a302c8\"},\"description\":\"After generating headlines for setting the midnight opening record, \\\"The Twilight Saga: New Moon\\\" achieved another record in its first full day of box\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2009\/11\/21\/twilight-new-moon-sets-another-box-office-record-blind-side-strong\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/\",\"name\":\"Headline Planet\",\"description\":\"Music News &amp; Charts, TV News &amp; Spoilers\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/#\/schema\/person\/b530255b81ceb7463ea060a9b8a302c8\",\"name\":\"Brian Cantor\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/5726265e0532f231e46bbddd41009383?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/5726265e0532f231e46bbddd41009383?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Brian Cantor\"},\"description\":\"Brian Cantor is the editor-in-chief for Headline Planet. 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