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Disney kids’ flick beats ‘Harry Potter’ and picks up $21.5 million. By Mawuse Ziegbe Flynn (voiced by Zachary Levi) and Rapunzel (voiced by Mandy Moore) in “Tangled” Photo: Disney Fairy-tale locks bested boy-wizard drama at this weekend’s box office. “Tangled,” Disney’s modernized take on the classic children’s tale “Rapunzel,” wrested the box-office crown away from “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1” over the weekend after coming in behind the fantasy phenomenon last week. The film — which is powered by voice-over performances from Mandy Moore and Zachary Levi — snatched up $21.5 million its second weekend in theaters. The flick’s total estimated gross is nearing the $100 million mark with about $96 million picked up so far. Although it’s already blasted past both the $100 million and $200 million box-office mark, “Potter” appears to be losing some of its momentum. The film picked up $16.7 million over the weekend, which pushes the flick’s total estimated gross to around $244 million. “Burlesque” limped behind the “Tangled” and “Potter” in third place. Audiences doled out $6.1 million to catch Cher and Christina Aguilera’s musically-driven flick about a down-on-her-luck club owner and her starry-eyed young prot