| Title |
Weekend |
Total |
Analysis |
| A Christmas Carol |
$31.0M |
$31.0M |
Dickens + Jim Carrey + "performance capture" = easy win. |
| Michael Jackson's This Is It |
$14.0M |
$57.9M |
MJ rehearsal concert pic beats two new movies in wide release. |
| The Men Who Stare at Goats |
$13.3M |
$13.3M |
Negative critic buzz didn't completely sink Clooney pic. |
| The Fourth Kind |
$12.5M |
$12.5M |
Perhaps Milla Jovovich should stick to Resident Evil movies — this did 1/2 those movies' Week 1 business. |
| Paranormal Activity |
$8.6M |
$97.4M |
Blair Witch it ain't, but within a hair of $100M blockbuster mark. |
Bomb of the Week: The Box stars Cameron Diaz and James Marsden but had the lowest per-screen average of any movie released this weekend. Will America every be ready for director Richard Kelly?