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'Chronicle' edges Daniel Radcliffe's 'Woman'
Chronicle makes debut as the No 1 movie with $22 million (Dh80 million)
- AP
- Published: 00:00 February 7, 2012
Some unknown kids with superpowers have nudged out the world's most famous teen wizard at the weekend box office in the US.
Chronicle, with a cast of unknowns as youths who gain telekinetic abilities, debuted as the No 1 movie with $22 million (Dh80 million).
Sunday studio estimates put Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe's ghost story The Woman in Black just behind with a $21 million opening.
Both movies packed in solid teen and early-20s crowds, Hollywood's bread-and-butter demographic that had been giving movies a pass during a box-office slump late last year.
The previous weekend's top movie, Liam Neeson's The Grey, slipped to No 3 with $9.5 million.
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