What’s a “Twilight”? Money, baby. This weekend alone Summit’s Twilight Saga: Eclipse, the third film off Stephenie Meyer’s novel series, spread like wildfire at #1 with $69 million. No surprise, really. Don’t count that against New Moon’s intake of $142.8 million in November ‘09. Eclipse bowed last Wednesday, selling out midnight showings and conjuring $68.5 million in 24 hours alone. Breaking Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen’s record of highest gross on a non-weekday. After a vapid fall on Thursday and steady declines about the weekend, it also became eighth quickest movie to pass the century-and-a-half mark. Altogether, Eclipse has slummed up $161 million. Maybe now if the quality was, I don’t know, able to meet the profits halfway? Don’t shoot the messenger.

M. Night Shyamalan’s The Last Airbender (which I’ve vowed never to speak of again after it slips from the top ten) also performed steadily with $40.7 million at #2; Shyamalan’s third-biggest opening. Eclipse wasn’t in 3D, though. Can’t believe I’ve resorted to defending it…

Toy Story 3 dipped 49.1% to third with $30.2 million, domestic total of $289 million. Already 42^nd highest-making flick of all time and Pixar’s third biggest, only three weeks out. Grown Ups saw a steeper fall (and there are some pretty steep falls cooked up in this one) of 54.3% with $18.5 million at #4. Lastly, Knight & Day rattled $10.2 million in fifth place, total of $45.8 million in twelve days. In lesser words, a bomb.

Out of the top five-

• Cyrus finally cracked the top ten with $770,000 at 77 sites.
• Critical catastrophe Love Ranch, starring Joe Pesci and Helen Mirren, opened to $49,500 at eleven sites.

Here are the box office results according to studio estimates Sunday-

1. 1. The Twilight Saga: Eclipse…$69 million
2. 2. The Last Airbender…$40.7 million
3. 3. Toy Story 3…$30.2 million
4. 4. Grown Ups…$18.5 million
5. 5. Knight & Day…$10.2 million
6. 6. The Karate Kid (2010)…$8 million
7. 7. The A-Team…$3 million
8. 8. Get Him to the Greek…$1.2 million
9. 9. Shrek Forever After…$799,000
10. 10. Cyrus…$770,000