'Marley' bites into Christmas day box office
Christmas has gone to the dogs ... at least at the cineplex.
First-day box office estimates are in, and it looks like in the battle of Jennifer Aniston versus ex-husband Brad Pitt, Aniston's record-breaking "Marley & Me" wins by a puppy's tail.
The Owen Wilson-Aniston vehicle took in $14.6 million (A Christmas Day record), while award-nomination darling "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" followed in second with $11.7 million, according to BoxOfficeMojo.com.
Slashfilm.com estimates "Marley & Me's" holiday weekend haul to be in the ballpark of $54 million while "Button" is expected to ring up $45 million in ticket sales. Third-place finisher "Bedtime Stories" may have split some of Adam Sandler's male audience with Tom Cruise's fourth-place "Valkyrie." The Christmas Day top 10 estimates are:
1. MARLEY AND ME
Fox - playing on 3,480 screens
$14,600,000
2. THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON
Paramount - 2,988
$11,700,000
3. BEDTIME STORIES
Buena Vista - 3,681
$10,325,000
4. VALKYRIE
United Artists - 2,711
$8,350,000
5. YES MAN
Warner Bros. - 3,434
$5,900,000
6. SEVEN POUNDS
Sony / Columbia - 2,758
$4,750,000
7. THE SPIRIT
Lionsgate - 2,509
$3,825,000
8. THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL (2008)
Fox - 2,402
$2,685,000
9. FOUR CHRISTMASES
Warner Bros. (New Line) - 2,510
$2,280,000
10. THE TALE OF DESPEREAUX
Universal - 3,104
$1,987,000
Source: BoxOfficeMojo.com
-- Jevon Phillips
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I love Tom Cruise and his movies but movies about Nazis are just SOOOO OVERPLAYED.
I mean there are other stories about other people, why do we have see these kind of movies EVERY YEAR.
Why not a movie about how the Magellan was beheaded by island natives or how the Indians were massacred. Why do we have to pay for these movies?
Posted by: Liz Wetzel | December 28, 2008 at 12:08 PM
I absolutely adore this movie. Their chemistry is so amazing and will probably be their most matured and beautiful work thus far. It is a tribute to real love and the hard work that goes into a relationships success. I can't wait to see how well it will do. They deserve an award of some sort for this movie. It is beautiful and has been described as the newer "terms of endearment" with a better completed finish.
Posted by: joy | December 28, 2008 at 12:09 PM