Weekend Box Office
1)
Four Christmases $18.1 million
2)
Twilight $13.1 million
3)
Bolt $9.6 million
4)
Australia $7 million
5)
Quantum of Solace $ $6.6 million
6)
Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa $5.1 million
7)
Transporter 3 $4.5 million
8)
Punisher: War Zone $4 million
9)
Cadillac Records $3.5 million
10)
Role Models $2.6 million
For the second weekend in a row, the Vince Vaughn/Reese Witherspoon holiday comedy
Four Christmases dominated the box office charts with $18.1 million. After just two weeks in release, the film has made an accumulated gross of $70.8 million, making it the first Christmas hit of the season.
In a surprising twist of fate,
Twilight jumped back up into the number two spot with another $13 million. Fans are truly enjoying this teen vampire romance, and it's the repeat business that's keeping it afloat. After just three weeks in release, the film has brought in an amazing $138.5 million. Those squirrelly vamps seems to be playing tag team with Disney's animated caper
Bolt, which hasn't fallen out of the top three yet. It made another $$9.6 million, bringing its tally to $79.2 million.
Two new films broke into the top ten this weekend. The hyper-violent Marvel adaptation
Punisher: War Zone crept into the number eight spot with a meager take of $4 million. When the first film,
The Punisher, opened in April of 2004, it came packing a $13.8 million dollar punch. This new incarnation of the Frank Castle mythos has severely dodged expectation. Opening at number 9 is the biopic
Cadillac Records, which preformed quite well with $3.5 on just 686 screens.
A couple of arthouse films hit the open circuit this weekend.
Frost/Nixon took in $180,000 on just 3 screens, giving it the highest per screen average of the week with $60,000 per location. And the thriller
Nobel Son scrapped up a couple of bucks, making $371,000 at just 893 theaters.
Next weekend, warring couples and teen vamps only have Keanu Reeves as the alien Klaatu to fear, as
The Day the Earth Stood Still opens wide on December 12th. They will also have to contend with a grumpy old Clint Eastwood in
Gran Torino.
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Among major new releases, the biggest was hardly the baddest: Punisher: War Zone (No. 8) grossed a mere $4 million in 2,508 theaters, a tally that's way off from the $13.8 million that The Punisher premiered with in 2004. More punishment: The Marvel franchise reboot failed to defeat even last week's action disappointment, Transporter 3 which was No. 7 with $4.5 million. Ouch!
GW or not, this ought to be a decent film. That's my hope.
....Global Warming as a plot point ..."Ohhh Scary!!!"...Ummmm, We all saw what happened earlier this year when M. Night Shyamalan tackled "THAT" subject! LOL!
...In these hard economic times, Hollywood should have just Re-Released the Original film!
....& Yes, "war" is still prevalent today, just as much as it was in the 1950's, Maybe not Nuclear War, but none the same, it's still war.
a fitting move to, ahem, milk the boycott against Cinemark Theaters and its subsidiaries for having openly supported Proposition 8's ban on gay marriage, moviegoers are now being encouraged to see Gus van Sant's new film, Milk -- a biopic about Harvey Milk (played by Sean Penn), who valiantly fought for gay rights before his tragic death in 1978 -- at any theater but those owned by Cinemark.
The website No MILK for Cinemark! also feature a printable PDF for flyers that say as much, as well as a link to its corresponding Facebook group, which had over 17,000 members as of this writing. Their revised aim is to cost the business $10,000, or equivalent to the amount donated by CEO Alan Stock to the Yes on 8 campaign.
It's a film well worth watching, though I can't say much (and don't really need to -- our James Rocchi will say his piece soon enough), but chances are that those going to see this film will be equally willing to give this movement some consideration.
The CEO of Cinemark, Alan Stock,
donated $9999 to the Yes on 8 Campaign, but
will now profit from showing MILK in his theaters.
And one of the quickest ways to produce a disappointing and second-rate movie is to try and modernize or remake a film classic. On Dec. 12, Fox Movie Studios will be attempting to defy the odds by releasing a remake of "The Day The Earth Stood Still," directed by Scott Derrickson and starring Keanu Reeves as Klaatu. Instead of dealing with the threat of nuclear war, which was the focus of the 1952 movie, the new version focuses on global warming.
"Gran Torino" LQQks good....I saw the trailer..Not a fan of Clint! I wish "Frost/Nikon" would open here in Phoenix, AZ!
It's like a fucking back-and-forth game of tag between Twilight and Bolt. One of em just needs to say "no tag backs" and be done with it
TDTESS should knock off 'Four'