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.
| RANK | FILM | STUDIO | WEEKEND | GROSS (MILLIONS) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
