Marley still top dog at box office
Four films find favor over holiday frame
By Pamela McClintock of Variety -- Video Business, 1/5/2009
JAN. 5 | VARIETY BOX-OFFICE REPORT: 20th Century Fox's Owen Wilson-Jennifer Aniston starrer Marley and Me remained best in show at the weekend box office, fetching a winning gross of $24 million from 3,505 runs for a cume of $106.5 million in only 11 days.Marley led an unusually robust holiday sesh at the box office. Four of the five films opening nationwide on Dec. 25 did great business -- Marley, Disney's Bedtime Stories, Paramount's The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and United Artists/MGM's Valkyrie.
The specialty side also made strong gains, with Miramax's Doubt and Fox Searchlight's Slumdog Millionaire coming in at Nos. 8 and 10, respectively, according to Rentrak. Defiance scored the best per-location average over the entire weekend, followed by Gran Torino and Revolutionary Road.
B.O. revs for the week between Christmas and New Year's were up nearly 20% over the same stretch in 2007.
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