The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 may not have beat Harry Potter at the Box Office, but it did set a franchise record $30.25 million in midnight ticket sales and earned an estimated $72 million on Friday.
This latter figure makes it the third biggest single-day gross ever, falling short only of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 ($91 million) and The Twilight Saga: New Moon ($72.7 million).
It is expected that Breaking Dawn Part 1 will gross over $140 million over the weekend which would be the fifth biggest opening weekend for a movie.
UPDATE: Breaking Dawn Part 1 made $139.5 million over the weekend in the US and $283.5 million worldwide.