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Thanksgiving has been profitable for Christmases. The new comedy Four Christmases, starring Reese Witherspoon and Vince Vaughn, has done tremendous business since its release on Wednesday, earning $28 million over the three-day period beginning Wednesday, with a cool $13 million of that coming on Friday, according to Box Office Mojo. It seems likely that the holiday-friendly movie will hit $40 million or more over the extended weekend.

Barring some kind of huge reversal, Twilight will finish the weekend in second place. Though it has clearly been the weekend's second biggest hit, it has lagged behind Christmases on Thursday and Friday, and now trails is new competition by about four million dollars for the weekend prize. It's possible that Twilight can explode again on Saturday, but Christmases doesn't appear to be losing steam the way its negative reviews would generally indicate.

The rest of the top five features Bolt, Quantum of Solace, and Madagascar, which is bad news for two other new releases. Australia, the sweeping, three-hour epic by Baz Luhrmann will be hard pressed to make $20 million in its five-day debut, a terrible sign for a movie that cost around $150 million. The reviews haven't been stellar, not good enough to support a big Oscar push, so Fox will probably back off of this film in the next couple of weeks; there's no sense throwing good money after bad.

As for Transporter 3, I'm a little surprised that it's a stiff. Of course, history tells me that the series has not been overwhelmingly successful and that Jason Statham's last film, Death Race, was also a bit of a box office loser, but we're again looking at maybe a $20 million debut over five days, after $11 million in the first three.

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