User blog:Ceauntay/Box office update: 'Scooby-Doo! The 2nd Movie' crumbles with just $15.1 million on Friday

The opening of ''Scooby-Doo! The 2nd Movie'' helps November get off to a very early strong start!

The ''Scooby-Doo! The Movie'' sequel easily top the box office with a massive number that became the largest single day gross for an animated movie. The $50 million pic has made $62.1 million on Friday, the 11th best single-day gross ever. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 still holds the record with $91.1 million.

Projecting an opening weekend gross to $145 million, it could easily set the new November record previously held back in November 2009 when The Twilight Saga: New Moon scores huge with $142.8 million, followed by The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 at $138.1 million, Jane Hoop Elementary: The Final Rush Part 1 at $130.9 million and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 at $125.1 million.

Although, 2012 has not seen any movies open around $100 million since The Dark Knight Rises back in July. Though, make that the first one yet. The Hunger Games, The Avengers and Shadow the Hedgehog all opened around $100 million in their opening weekends, so make 2012 one of the year to have most films to open $100 million in opening weekend.

At No. 2, Disney’s new videogame-themed animation Wreck-It Ralph scored $13.4 million on Friday, which puts it on pace for a weekend between $45 and $50 million, and more importantly, sets up the film to play well through the lucrative Thanksgiving frame. The Denzel Washington vehicle Flight took off in second place on Friday with $8.2 million from just 1,900 theaters — good for a robust $4,301 per theater average after just one day. Flight‘s Friday gross is slightly ahead of Washington’s 2010 thriller Unstoppable, which started with $8.0 million on the way to a $22.7 million weekend, and it’s a full 39 percent bigger than Argo‘s $5.9 million first Friday. Flight may soar to $25 million over the Friday-to-Sunday period. The RZA-directed, Quentin Tarantino-produced martial arts picture The Man with the Iron Fists started in third place with $3.0 million. Universal’s $15 million experiment likely won’t hold up especially well over the coming days, as fanboys tend to rush to the theater on opening night, and it may have to settle for a $8 million frame.

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Two holdovers rounded out the Top 5. Argo dipped 24 percent from last Friday to $3.0 million, and it may earn $10.5 million through Sunday. And Taken 2, now in its fourth weekend, added another $1.8 million, It may earn about $5.5 million for the weekend.
 * 1) Scooby-Doo! The 2nd Movie - $62.1 million
 * 2) Wreck-It Ralph – $13.4 million
 * 3) Flight – $8.2 million
 * 4) The Man with the Iron Fists – $3.0 million
 * 5) Argo – $3.0 million