May 25, 2012

Marley & Me Enjoys a Record-Breaking Christmas

by Andrew Gnerre | Published December 29, 2008

After enjoying a $14.7 million first day gross, the largest Christmas Day opening ever, Owen Wilson and Jennifer Aniston’s family-friendly Marley & Me went on to win the weekend with $37 million and a four-day total of $51.7 million. Coming in second was the week’s other PG release, Bedtime Stories, starring Adam Sandler, which brought in $28.1 million for the weekend and $38.6 million over four days. Rounding out the top five were David Fincher’s The Curious Case of Benajmin Button with $27.2 million, Valkyrie with $21.5 million and last week’s number one, Yes Man, with $16.4 million.

Frank Miller’s The Spirit was the only Christmas Day wide release not to crack the top five, sputtering into ninth place with a four-day total of $10.3 million, less than any of the top three movies made on Christmas Day alone.

With only one new release this week, a limited run for Ed Zwick’s Defiance starring Daniel Craig and Liev Schreiber, Christmas’ heavy-hitters will have another week to fight it out. Check back next week at the Top of the Box Office report to see who wins.

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Comment by James on 12/30/08 at 6:24 am: The Defiance website http://www.defiancemovie.co.uk has loads of information about the new Defiance movie, including cast, crew and stories. It also has the official movie trailers & currently the first Shooting game for Defiance, where you can reach a high score to win a pair of tickets to the film premiere.........:)
Comment by zara clothing on 1/03/09 at 8:06 pm: Adam Sandler starring would always attract crowds!
Comment by Cricket Bats on 1/12/09 at 12:52 pm: A great family film. would recommend it to anyone.
Comment by Alex on 11/27/09 at 12:55 am: Marley and me was a disastrous piece of garbage - I can’t believe someone, somewhere invested good money in this (pardon the pun) dog of a chick flick. The only reason it opened decently at all is that Christmas audiences must have been in a charitable mood!
Comment by author on 1/28/11 at 10:25 am: I read the book Marley & Me and I loved it, I have to say this movie was so disappointing I ended up looking at the canvas prints on the wall of the cinema!
Comment by joeloan on 4/16/12 at 2:14 pm: Indeed marley & me is a great movie to see on Christmas!