Breaking Dawn Wins Box Office Crown

Breaking Dawn, starring Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner is showing no signs of breaking down at the box office.

For the third consecutive weekend, this installment of the Twilight Saga earned more money than any other film, adding $16.9 million to its growing tally on Friday and Saturday. After 17 days in theatres, the film has grossed an impressive $247.3 million in North America. Still, that's slightly lower than the $255.4 million the third "Twilight" film, "New Moon," grossed during the same time period in 2009.

Here is a look at the top ten box office results from the weekend:

1.    The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1: $16.9 mil
2.    The Muppets: $11.2 mil
3.    Hugo: $7.6 mil
4.    Arthur Christmas: $7.4 mil
5.    Happy Feet Two: $6.0 mil
6.    Jack and Jill: $5.5 mil
7.    The Descendants (Fox Searchlight): $5.2 mil
8.    Immortals(Relativity): $4.4 mil
9.    Tower Heist (Universal/Relativity): $4.1 mil
10.   Puss in Boots (Paramount/DreamWorks Animation): $3.1 million