Box office report
For the second weekend in a row, movie-goers celebrated “Four Christmases.”
The Reese Witherspoon-Vince Vaughn comedy topped the box office for the second weekend in a row, ringing in another $18.2 million. The Warner Bros. release boosted its 12-day total to $70.8 million, according to the Associated Press.
“`Four Christmases’ was set up perfectly. It’s an evergreen subject for the holiday period,” Paul Dergarabedian, president of box-office tracker Media By Numbers, told the AP. “This is a movie that can play and is playing from Thanksgiving through the end of the year.”
“Twilight,” the film version of Stephenie Meyer’s popular book, was in second place for the second weekend, with $13.2 million.
Despite the now-confirmed economic recession, Hollywood is still outperforming year’s holiday season; revenues were on the rise for the fifth weekend in a row.
The top 12 movies took in $77.5 million, a 6 percent increase from the first weekend of December 2007, when “The Golden Compass” opened at No. 1 with $25.8 million, the AP reported.
“Punisher: War Zone,” the only new movie debuting fully in wide release, opened with just $4 million for eighth place. The Lionsgate release, based on Marvel Comics’ “The Punisher,” got horrid reviews, which is pretty much in line what the previous two attempts to turn the vigilante tale into a movie received.
The music biopic “Cadillac Records,” starring Adrien Brody, Beyonce Knowles, Jeffrey Wright, Cedric the Entertainer and Mos Def, opened in narrower release. It had a decent debut with $3.5 million for ninth place.
Oklahoma native Ron Howard’s drama “Frost/Nixon” notched a huge opening in limited release. The period piece, starring Frank Langella as President Richard Nixon and Michael Sheen as interviewer David Frost, made $180,147 in just three theaters, according to the AP. It will be expanding to more theaters in the next two weeks. .
The latest action-packed James Bond film “Quantum of Solace” raised its domestic take to $151.5 million with an added $6.6 million. The film passed the $500 million mark worldwide and was No. 5 at the U.S. box office.
Here are the weekend’s top 10 movies, from the AP:
1. “Four Christmases,” $18.2 million.
2. “Twilight,” $13.2 million.
3. “Bolt,” $9.7 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.
-BAM
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