The Twilight Saga: Eclipse has been knocked off the top of the North American box office after one week by animated 3D film Despicable Me.
The new number one took $60.1m (£40.2m) while vampire sequel Eclipse took $33.4m (£22.3m), according to early studio estimates.
Despicable Me tells the story of a villain, voiced by Steve Carell, who plans to steal the moon.
Predators, an update of the 1987 sci-fi classic, opened in third place.
