This
Week

TITLE

Weeks In
Release

Last Weekend ($US)

Total Gross ($US)

1.

Marley And Me

2

24.2M

106.6M

2.

Bedtime Stories

2

20.5M

85.5M

3.

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

2

18.6M

79.2M

4.

Valkyrie

2

14M

60.7M

5.

Yes Man

3

13.9M

79.5M

6.

Seven Pounds

3

10M

60.1M

7.

The Tale of Despereaux

3

6.9M

43.6M

8.

The Day the Earth Stood Still

4

5M

74.4M

9.

Doubt

4

5M

18.7M

10.

Slumdog Millionaire

8

4.6M

28.6M

11.

Twilight

7

4.6M

176.9M

12.

Bolt

7

3.2M

109.9M

13.

The Spirit

2

3.2M

17.7M

14.

Gran Torino

4

2.9M

9.8M

15.

Four Christmases

6

2.8M

118.1M

Box Office Wrap-Up

with Sean Lynch



With no major new releases in the first week of the new year,
US audiences decided to catch up on all the blockbusters
they missed seeing over the Christmas holidays.

The big winner seems to be the book-turned-movie
Marley & Me which cracks the $100M mark (on it's way
to a potential final cume of over $150M. It's a good start
to 2009 for Fox who struggled in 2008 with dud after dud.

Isn't it ironic that Fox's only film that wasn't
a complete dog... was about a dog.

Also holding up well was the Adam Sandler kid
flick Bedtime Stories and Slumdog Millionaire.

We should also make a quick mention of Baz Lurhman's
Australia which is about to bow out of the US Box
Office Top 20 with takings of just over $47M. Despite a
crazy level of promo, audiences just didn't seem
to want anything to do with Nicole and Hugh.