No Turkeys at This Box Office

By Stephen M. Silverman

06/26/1998 at 12:00 AM EDT

Movie studios saw green this holiday weekend, and it wasn't just on the hide of the Grinch. The cumulative box office reportedly set an all-time record for a Thanksgiving weekend, with the top 12 movies alone taking in some $236.3 million, according to studio estimates on Sunday. The previous high, set last year, was $225.5 million, but that was for all the movies in release that weekend. By the time the dust settles and final figures are in for this year's Thanksgiving crop, the totals for the five-day holiday should reach $250 million, which should make for a lot of smiling Dalmatians, Rugrats and Angels. The Top 10:

1."Dr. Seuss's How the Grinch Stole Christmas," $73.8 million
2. "Unbreakable," $47.2 million
3. "102 Dalmatians," $26.8 million
4. "Rugrats in Paris: The Movie," $22.8 million
5. "Charlie's Angels," $14 million
6. "Bounce," $11 million
7. "The 6th Day," $10.2 million
8. "Men of Honor," $9.3 million
9. "Meet the Parents," $9 million
10. "Little Nicky," $6.5 million