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'The Avengers' Stays On Top At The Weekend Box Office

by Bill Wine

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- The leader remained the same on another big weekend at the nation's multiplexes.

That's two in a row for The Avengers. After setting the record last weekend with the biggest box-office debut in movie history, the comic book-inspired superhero blockbuster, The Avengers, finished first again -- to no one's surprise -- by earning an estimated $103-million in its second weekend of release.

READ:   Bill Wine's Review of The Avengers.

The weekend's highest-profile new attraction could only finish a distant second: Dark Shadows, the Tim Burton-directed, big-screen comedic version of the supernatural TV soap opera, starring Johnny Depp, took in a respectable $29-million.

Rounding out the top five were holdovers Think Like a Man, The Hunger Games, and The Lucky One, none of which totaled more than $6-million.

Overall, industry totals are well ahead of those of a year ago, thanks to The Avengers, the first movie ever to top $100-million in its second weekend of release.

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