If you were to glean some grand generalization about the fancies of humans from this past weekend's box office estimates, you would probably die of a heart attack. But that's because you eat movie theater popcorn, fatty. Also because judging from the three highest grossing films of this weekend, you and the rest of America has developed a fleeting obsession with death. Yes, it seems America has decided to lace up her combat boots, buckle up her patent leather corset, slap on gobs of eyeshadow and chunks of lipliner and polish her nose-ring. All the while listening to Rasputina and partaking in fiery sexting sessions with Death, that timeless, virile lothario. There's no other way to explain the prominence of such death-centric flicks as New Moon and 2012 and even The Blind Side. Side stars Sandra Bullock and Tim McGraw, so you know some morbid curiosity was bubbling in a casting agent's brain-coils. Top 10 estimates and a few extras after the jump.

1. The Twilight Saga: New Moon ($42.5 million) 2. The Blind Side ($40 million) 3. 2012 ($18 million) 4. Old Dogs ($16.8 million) 5. A Christmas Carol ($16 million) 6. Ninja Assassin ($13.1 million) 7. Planet 51 ($10.2 million) 8. Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire ($7.1 million) 9. The Fantastic Mr. Fox ($7 million) 10. The Men Who Stare at Goats ($1.53 million)

Falling out of the Top 10: Couples Retreat ($974,000), This Is It ($800,000), The Fourth Kind, ($627,000) Advance buzz: The Princess & the Frog ($712,000) Dropping like a lead brick: Paranormal Activity ($505,000), Astro Boy ($151,000), The Efron effect: Me & Orson Welles ($64,800)