Four new releases made up this year’s traditional Thanksgiving movie-smorgasbord, though none came close to unseating Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1.  After six days in theatres, Potter’s penultimate chapter has already racked up a domestic estimate of $158.5 million.  When added to its foreign haul, the film’s worldwide total stands at $363 million.  As expected, Potter’s closest competitor on the day before Thanksgiving was Disney’s Tangled.  The animated take on Rapunzel opened with $11.6 million from its 3,603 runs and is expected to bring in $65 million by the end of the holiday weekend.  Sony/Screen Gem’s Burlesque beat out Fox’s Love and Other Drugs – a surprise which can be partially explained by the musical’s higher screen count. Neither title is expected to earn over $18 million by Sunday.  Finally, CBS’s Faster fell outside the top five in seventh place. The R-rated action flick brought in an estimated $1.6 million from its 2,454 runs.  We’ll have Thanksgiving box office updates later this weekend.

Title

Wednesday

Total

1

Harry Potter 7A

$14,000,000

$158.5

2

Tangled

$11,600,000

$11.6

3

Burlesque

$2,800,000

$2.8

4

Megamind

$2,700,000

$115.6

5

Love & Other Drugs

$2,500,000

$2.5