HOLLYWOOD - Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets and Die Another Day dominated the Thanksgiving box office with 007 placing first for the five day holiday period and Harry topping the three day chart.Die enjoyed the biggest five day (Wed.-Sun.) slice of box office pie with $46.3 million versus Harry's $45.8 million. For three days (Fri.- Sun.), Harry led with $32.2 million versus Die's $31.0 million.
Santa Clause 2 came down the chimney in third place with a jolly $17.2 million for five days.
Treasure Planet kicked off slowly in fourth place with $16.5 million for five days.
Adam Sandler's Eight Crazy Nights opened calmly in fifth to $15.1 million for five days.
Thanksgiving's biggest grosses, however, weren't at the box office but at cash registers across the country as Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment sold seven million units of Ice Age, which went into DVD and video release last Tuesday.
Ice Age, a leading contender in this year's Oscar race for best animated feature, took in approximately $120 million from last Tuesday through Sunday (a five day period because retail stores were closed Thursday for Thanksgiving), according to Fox Home Entertainment.
Ice Age's gross in DVD and video actually exceeded the box office take for the holiday weekend's top three films, which together grossed about $109.3 million for five days.
Thanksgiving's three other wide theatrical openings were all box office leftovers -- Solaris with $9.5 million, Wes Craven Presents: They with $8 million and Extreme Ops with $3.1 million.
Driven by the Bond and Potter franchises, key films grossed $210.8 million for five days, up about 1.7 percent from last Thanksgiving (Nov. 21-25, 2001) when key films did $207.2 million.