Box Office Review – January 4, 2009

It’s deja vu all over again.

WEEKEND TOP 5 STUDIO ESTIMATES, JANUARY 2-4, 2009

Rank. Movie Title - Weekend Gross | Theaters | Total Gross | Week #

1. Marley and Me - $24.1 million | 3,505 | $106.5 million | 2
2. Bedtime Stories - $20.3 million | 3,684 | $85.4 million | 2
3. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button – $18.4 million | 2,988 | $79.0 million | 2
4. Valkyrie -  $14.0 million | 2,778 | $60.7 million | 2
5. Yes Man - $13.9 million | 3,434 | $79.4 million | 3

Does this look familiar? It should. Exact same top 5 order as last week.

Films like Revolutionary Road, The Wrestler and Gran Torino are doing well, but still sitting in limited release.

Next week we’ll get to see very typical January films … a horror (The Unborn), and an almost horror–I mean comedy (Bride Wars).

It’s deja vu all over again.

WEEKEND TOP 5 STUDIO ESTIMATES, JANUARY 2-4, 2009

Rank. Movie Title - Weekend Gross | Theaters | Total Gross | Week #

1. Marley and Me - $24.1 million | 3,505 | $106.5 million | 2
2. Bedtime Stories - $20.3 million | 3,684 | $85.4 million | 2
3. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button – $18.4 million | 2,988 | $79.0 million | 2
4. Valkyrie -  $14.0 million | 2,778 | $60.7 million | 2
5. Yes Man - $13.9 million | 3,434 | $79.4 million | 3

Does this look familiar? It should. Exact same top 5 order as last week.

(Do you see what I did there? I repeated the top 5 in an oh-so-clever way to give the illusion of deja vu. Magic? No, just cleverness, heaping piles of cleverness.)