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USA Weekend Box-Office Summary By Dorf, (DT) December 8, 2008 8:00 AM PT

The past weekend didn\'t see too many surprises. The top 3 films stayed the same as last weekend, and positions 4 and 5 switched. That being said, Four Christmases was again the champ, followed by Twilight, Bolt, Australia and Quantum of Solace (which surpassed the $500M barrier worldwide). In a surprising - or not surprising result - Punisher: War Zone sucked. It raked in a mere $4M. Budgeted at $35M, its safe to say Punisher won\'t last long in theaters. (FYI: the first Punisher movie was released in 2004, it had an opening weekend of $13.5M) Punisher: War Zone brought in a pathetic $1500 per theater. However, indie film Nobel Son (released on 863 theaters) takes the cake for worst performance with just over $370,000, for a terrible $415 per theater. In a note showing the promise of Frost/ Nixon, the film took in $60,000 in each of the 3 theaters it was released in. That average will excite the studio heads as the Oscar race picks up pace. Rank - Title - Weekend - (Gross) 1 Four Christmases --$18.2M- ($70.8M) 2 Twilight --$13.2M-($139M) 3 Bolt --$9.7M- ($79.3M) 4 Australia --$7M -($30.9M) 5 Quantum of Solace --$6.6M-($151M) 6 Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa --$5.1M-($166M) 7 Transporter 3 --$4.5M -($25.4M) 8 Punisher: War Zone --$4M -($4M) 9 Cadillac Records --$3.5M-($3.5M) 10 Role Models --$2.62M-($61.7M) Source: CNN