'Twilight' boffo with $283.5 mil worldwide

'The Twilight Saga: Breaking Beginning -- Part 1'Summit's "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Beginning - Part 1" may have fallen missing a collection-best domestic debut having its thought $139.5 million, nevertheless the penultimate "Twilight" still handled to overcome its three forerunners around the worldwide scale, gathering an impressive $283.5 million."Breaking Beginning" first demonstrated just before "New Moon," which made $274.8 million throughout its first worldwide weekend. That pic, however, opened up up inside the U.S. this same weekend this past year with $142.8 million. (The franchise's third offering "Eclipse" bowed mid-week a year ago, producing $157.6 000 0000 in your area within the first five days, getting a worldwide debut of $261.6 000 0000.)The second-to-last "Twilight" pic now stands since the fifth-finest domestic opening ever directly behind "New Moon" as well as the tenth-finest global launch ever.Overall weekend totals were up roughly 15% inside the same sesh a year ago, when "Harry Potter as well as the Deathly Hallows: Part 1" set the bar high by getting a dent of $125 million.Warner Bros.' 3d toon follow-up "Happy Foot Two," meanwhile, drastically underperformed its predecessor, bowing to have an thought $22 million versus. the 2D original's $41.5 million opening in 2006.The toon, which skewed 54% female, may have lost numerous its femme base to "Breaking Beginning," especially moms taking teens and tween women.Allotted for just about any reported $135 million, "Happy Foot Two" should have better luck with family auds next weekend, even though it also faces a crowded area as three other mostly family-skewing photos bow country wide on Wednesday."We must have that holiday play time under our belt," mentioned Warner domestic distribution prexy Serta Fellman. "By next Monday, we should have a better concept of where we stand."Just like a more efficient counterprogramming bid, Fox Searchlight's "The Descendants" broke to the domestic B.O.'s top by getting an thought three-day take of $1.2 million from just 29 locations. Pic, which bowed Wednesday for just about any five-day cume of $1.3 million, carried out to offered-out tests and accomplished good success in the mainly art house run through which "Twilight" likely was absent.Searchlight expects to supply the film a considerable mug Thanksgiving weekend, by getting one more roughly 400 playdates set to bow November. 23. Contact Andrew Stewart at andrew.stewart@variety.com