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Keanu Tops Box Office
15/12/2008 07:32 - (SA)
Los Angeles - The science fiction thriller The Day the Earth Stood Still swept the North American box office on its debut weekend, preliminary industry figures showed on Sunday.
The Fox re-make of a 1951 cult classic stars Keanu Reeves as an alien that comes to earth. The movie took in $31m over the weekend, the ticket sales tracking company Exhibitor Relations reported.
Second was the comedy Four Christmases, starring Reese Witherspoon and Vince Vaughn who play a couple struggling to visit all four of their divorced parents on Christmas.
The Warner Bros. movie raked in $13.3m over the weekend, for a haul of $88m since it opened three weeks ago, Exhibitor Relations said.
Teen vampire movie Twilight made its way to third place, pulling in eight million dollars, for a haul of $150m since it opened four weeks ago.
Fourth was Disney's animated Bolt, also out for a month, which barked up $7.5m over the weekend and $89m since it opened.
Australia, the epic period romance featuring Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman, took fifth place with $4.2m, bringing its total box office sales to just under $38m since it opened three weeks ago.
The James Bond thriller Quantum of Solace finished sixth, earning $3.8m over the weekend and $157.6m since it opened five weeks ago.
In its opening weekend and debuting in seventh place was Nothing like the Holidays, a holiday comedy with a cast that includes Debra Messing and John Leguizamo, which pulled in $3.5m.
Next was Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa, which amassed in $3.2m over the weekend and has earned $170m in ticket sales for Paramount since the animated feature made its debut six weeks ago.
In ninth place was Milk, the drama about Harvey Milk, the first openly gay elected official in California who was a member of the San Francisco board of supervisors and was shot dead in 1978 along with the city mayor. The film, starring Sean Penn, took in $2.6m.
Rounding off the list at number 10 was the third instalment of Lionsgate's action-adventure franchise Transporter 3, starring Jason Statham.
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