Christmases still jolly at box office
VARIETY BOX-OFFICE REPORT: Frost/Nixon bows big in limited release
By Ben Fritz of Variety -- Video Business, 12/8/2008
DEC. 8 | VARIETY BOX-OFFICE REPORT: Four Christmases kept auds laughing while the Punisher fired blanks during the traditionally slow post-Thanksgiving frame.The real action was in the specialty market, where an ex-president joined a gay rights pioneer and an Indian gameshow contestant to keep theaters packed.
Universal’s Frost/Nixon bowed to an estimated $180,000 from just three theaters in Gotham, L.A. and Toronto, giving it a per-play average of $60,000, the second highest of the year.
Weekend’s only new pic in wide release was Lionsgate’s Punisher: War Zone, which bowed to a dismal $4 million at 2,508 locations. That’s less than a third of what the studio’s first Punisher pic took when it opened in 2004.
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