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"True Grit" seized the reins at the weekend box office with $15 million, taking the No. 1 spot and becoming the first Western to top the $100 million mark since the 1990s.

No. 2 "True Grit" scores the best ever domestic cume for the Coens; "Black Swan" dances into No. 9 with $8.5 million. Paramount's True Grit finished New Year's weekend with a dazzling domestic cume of $86.8 million, the best ever gross for the Coen brothers and upping the Western's profile as Oscar voters mull their choices.

The latest chapter in 'The Chronicles of Narnia' saga has sailed to the top of the weekend box office, though the franchise sank to a weak debut compared to the first two movies.

Harry Potter has narrowly won a box-office tangle with a fairy-tale princess. "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1" remained the No. 1 movie with $50.3 million over Thanksgiving weekend, closely followed by the animated musical "Tangled" with $49.1 million.

Harry Potter has cast his biggest box-office spell yet with a franchise record $125.1 million domestically over opening weekend.

The movie "Paranormal Activity 2" took the top slot at the box office this weekend. Paramount’s supernatural horror film brought in $41.5 million at the domestic box office, according to early estimates from Hollywood.com. That was a much bigger splash than most experts had expected.

Johnny Knoxville and his "Jackass" gang are even bigger hits in three dimensions. Jackass 3D," their latest big-screen collection of crazy stunts and antics, opened with a whopping $50 million, soaring past the debuts of their first two movies, according to studio estimates Sunday.

Movie fans have bookmarked the Facebook drama "The Social Network" as their weekend favorite. David Fincher's saga about personality clashes and legal feuds among the website's founders took in $15.5 million to remain the No. 1 film for a second straight weekend, according to studio estimates Sunday. Released by Sony, "The Social Network" raised its 10-day total to $46.1 million.

Greed proved to be simply good enough during the weekend. Fox's Michael Douglas starrer "Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps" topped the domestic box office with a good-but-not great $19 million in estimated opening coin. Once scheduled for spring release until postponed to adult-friendly fall, Oliver Stone's sequel to his original 1987 financial thriller may have been a bit hampered by the unavailability of its ailing topliner for promo stumping.

Film opens with $23.8 million to take the No. 1 spot. The intense Warner Bros. drama about bank robbers in an insular section of Boston earned rave reviews.