Muammar Al Khadafi

Harry Potter's spell on the box office still lingers, as The Deathly Hallows, Part 1 earned $50.3 million this weekend to bring its two-week total to $220.4 million, according to studio estimates.

But Tangled, Disney's animated update of the Rapunzel fairy tale, was second by a hair, with $49.1 million for the weekend and $69 million since opening Wednesday.

Despite big business for the top two movies, receipts fell short of the Thanksgiving record set last year, when The Twilight Saga: New Moon and The Blind Side were released.

Megamind, Paramount's animated superhero adventure, took third place with $12.9 million in its fourth week in release. The film, starring Will Ferrell, has earned $130.5 million so far.

Burlesque, the glitzy musical starring Cher as a club owner and Christina Aguilera as the small-town girl with the big voice and bigger dreams, opened in fourth place with $11.8 million for the weekend and a five-day total of $17.2 million.

"It's clearly a crowd-pleaser," says Rory Bruer, president of worldwide distribution for Sony, which released Burlesque. "Our numbers went up as the weekend went on." Bruer is pleased with diversity of the film's audience and noted that exit surveys indicate that Burlesque "is truly a movie that people want to see over and over again."

Unstoppable, the runaway-train thriller starring Denzel Washington and Chris Pine, barely slowed down, earning $11.75 million in its third week, good enough for fifth place. Twentieth Century Fox, which released Unstoppable, also crashed the kiddie party with the debut of Love and Other Drugs. The adult drama starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Anne Hathaway, opened at No. 6, making $9.9 million for the weekend and $14 million over five days, in line with expectations.

"This is a marathon, not a sprint, and we hope audiences will continue to discover the film," says Chris Aronson, Fox's senior vice president of domestic distribution.

The other newcomer of the weekend, Faster, starring Dwayne Johnson as a man hellbent on revenge, made its debut in seventh with $8.6 million.