Fox’s remake of the sci-fi classic “The Day The Earth Stood Still,” starring Keanu Reeves, landed atop the U.S. weekend Box Office with an estimated $31 million in opening grosses.
Warner Brothers’ comedy “Four Christmases” dropped to second place, with $13.3 million over the weekend and an $88 million cumulative take over three weeks of release.
Summit’s vampire romance “Twilight” finished third over the weekend, with an $8 million performance and a $150.1 million cumulative take over four weeks of release.
Industrywide, year-to-date totals for 2008 are outpacing the same portion of 2007 grosses by 1%, at $9.01 billion.
Below are Box Office totals for the weekend of December 12-14, 2008 from Nielsen EDI.
(MILLIONS)
RANK
FILM
STUDIO
WEEKEND
GROSS
1
The Day The Earth Stood Still
TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX
$30,480,153
$30.5
2
Four Christmases
WARNER BROS.
$13,074,470
$87.8
3
Twilight
SUMMIT ENTERTAINMENT
$7,951,131
$150.0
4
Bolt
WALT DISNEY STUDIOS
$7,464,282
$88.8
5
Australia
TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX
$4,169,277
$37.8
6
Quantum of Solace
SONY PICTURES
$3,715,522
$157.6
7
Nothing Like The Holidays
OVERTURE FILMS
$3,531,664
$3.5
8
Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
PARAMOUNT
$3,181,231
$169.9
9
Milk
FOCUS FEATURES
$2,598,638
$7.6
10
Transporter 3
LIONSGATE
$2,351,229
$29.4
Source: The Hollywood Reporter / Nielsen EDI
