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"New Moon has topped the Australian box office on its debut weekend with $16 million in ticket sales. The vampire romance, led by Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson, breaks the opening record set by Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince earlier this year. 2012 slips a place on its second week of release, while A Christmas Carol holds on to the number three spot. Rounding out the top five is The Time Traveler&amp;#039;s Wife and Clive Owen&amp;#039;s The Boys Are Back. Elsewhere, new Coen brothers movie A Serious Man enters at number eight. The box office top ten in full (figures in Australian dollars): 1. (-) The Twilight Saga: New Moon - $16,099,648 2. (1) 2012 - $3,618,296 3. (3) A Christmas Carol - $776,423 4. (2) The Time Traveler&amp;#039;s Wife - $582,362 5. (5) The Boys Are Back - $404,101 6. (4) This Is It - $327,095 7. (6) Mao&amp;#039;s Last Dancer - $269,983 8. (-) A Serious Man - $243,253 9. (7) Couples Retreat - $177,884 10. (8) Amelia - $127,237 "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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