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Box Office Breakdown: Hotel Transylvania Pulls in the Screams

Hotel Transylvania

Vampires are still very much in at the box office -- no matter what age you are.

The animated family film Hotel Transylvania debuted this weekend with an impressive $43 million, making it the second biggest summer opener after The Dark Knight Rises. The latest Bruce Willis film -- written and directed by Rian Johnson -- Looper debuted at second place with $21.2 million while last week's number one film, End of Watch, fell two spots with $8 million. Clint Eastwood's Trouble with the Curve fell one spot to number four with $7.5 million, and the thriller House at the End of the Street rounds out the top five with $7.1 million.

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1. Hotel Transylvania, Sony, $43,000,000 (avg. $12,840)
2. Looper, TriStar, $21,200,000 (avg. $7,086)
3. End of Watch, Open Road Films, $8,000,000 (avg. $2,878)
4. Trouble with the Curve, Warner Bros., $7,530,000 (avg. $2,344)
5. House at the End of The Street, Relativity, $7,154,000 (avg. $2,320)
6. Pitch Perfect, Universal, $5,200,000 (avg. $15,522)
7. Finding Nemo (3D), Disney, $4,066,000 (avg. $1,541)
8. Resident Evil: Retribution, ScreenGem, $3,000,000 (avg. $1,260)
9. The Master, The Weinstein Co., $2,745,000 (avg. $3,207)
10. Won't Back Down, Fox, $2,700,000 (avg. $1,074)

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