Clint Eastwood Opens Big

By Andrew Gnerre
URL: http://www.moviemaker.com/blog/item/clint_eastwood_has_the_biggest_opening_weekend_of_his_career_20090112/
Finally getting its wide release a month after hitting theaters, Clint Eastwood's Gran Torino topped the box office this weekend, pulling in $29 million and kicking that damn dog (Marley & Me, which was ousted into fourth place with an $11.3 million weekend) off his lawn. This marks the highest grossing opening weekend for any of Eastwood's movies and brings the movie's five-week total to $40 million.