Well that didn’t last very long. There we were, bracing ourselves for Twilight: Eclipse‘s months-long reign.
And it’s over already. After a single week, Twilight: Eclipse has stopped being the weekend box office number one, losing its place to Despicable Me. What could be the problem with Twilight: Eclipse? Are people bored of Twilight? Have its fans grown up to the extent that they’re not squealing little irritants any more? Or has is the sudden weekend box office drop-off of Twilight: Eclipse down to the fact that the youth of today has already moved on to a new fad?
Let’s hope it’s not the latter, because that’d seem like the fastest way to get Justin Bieber cast as a BMXing were-boy in Breaking Dawn. Full US weekend box office top five after the jump…

