USA Weekend Box-Office Summary

By Dorf December 8, 2008 8:00 AM

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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

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