Sunday
14Dec2008
Box Office - 'Earth Stood Still' is Number One, But...
Sunday, December 14, 2008 at 11:07AM
The hits keep on coming for Fox, and that's a bad thing.
The studio, already reeling from a year full of major disappointments like
Meet Dave, The X Files: I Want to Believe, City of Ember,
Australia,
Babylon A.D., Deception, and Mirrors, has one more ticking time bomb
on its hands:
The Day the Earth Stood Still.
1 - The Day the Earth Stood Still ($31 million)
2 - Four Christmases ($13.3 million)
3 - Twilight ($8 million)
4 - Bolt ($7.5 million)
5 - Australia ($4.3 million)
The Day the Earth Stood Still was easily the top movie in theaters, but it fell well below projections for its opening weekend, and doesn't resemble a movie that will be a strong contender for very long.
Speaking of strong contenders, Four Christmases, Bolt, and Twilight spent their third weekend bunched together, and Bolt now appears very likely to break $100 million in a couple of weeks, which was not a sure thing when the film was released.
The Top Five:
1 - The Day the Earth Stood Still ($31 million)
2 - Four Christmases ($13.3 million)
3 - Twilight ($8 million)
4 - Bolt ($7.5 million)
5 - Australia ($4.3 million)
Much of the attention right now is on the Golden Globe nominees and Oscar hopefuls in limited release. Milk is back in the top ten, with a total box office of over $7 million. That's a fantastic number considering it's only in 328 theaters.
Box Office Mojo also reports that Slumdog Millionaire is inching closer to a top ten appearance. With word of mouth spreading a lot faster than the available number of theaters, Slumdog has made $8 million in the past month, and it's in fewer than 200 theaters.
Frost/Nixon, Doubt, Gran Torino, The Reader, and Che dominated the per-screen averages this weekend, with Eastwood's Torino leading the pack, raking in over $47,000 per screen.
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