Weekend Wrap Up: Marley and Me sit up Top

Welcome to the first post here at Intermission at Work for 2009.  It’s late, and I know that I haven’t been doing much posting recently, but I hope to be able to do much more this year, and maybe recruit some writers to help me out.  I’m sure that there are plenty of moviegoers looking to get their opinions out, but either don’t have a movie blog or don’t want to go out and make a blog just for an occassional post.  (Even though that’s what it feels like I’m doing sometimes!)  We’ll talk more about that later though. In any case, let’s take a look at last weekend’s box office!

Rank		Title	Weekend	Gross
1		Marley & Me (2008)	$24.3M	$107M
2		Bedtime Stories (2008)	$20.5M	$85.5M
3		The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)	$18.7M	$79.3M
4		Valkyrie (2008)	$14.1M	$60.7M
5		Yes Man (2008)	$13.9M	$79.5M
6		Seven Pounds (2008)	$10.1M	$60.1M
7		The Tale of Despereaux (2008)	$6.94M	$43.7M
8		The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008)	$5.05M	$74.4M
9		Doubt (2008)	$5M	$18.7M
10		Slumdog Millionaire (2008)	$4.69M	$28.7M

Source: IMDB

Again, Marley and Me held on to the top spot at the box office, showing that the holidays really calls for a family friendly movie that everyone can see.  Holding form was Bedtime Stories at number 2, further proving the trend!  I’ve got no problem with having kiddie movies doing well at the box office, though I do have one small gripe with Marley and Me.  Those of you who have read the book already know what is going to happen.  A lot of people who are going to see the movie have not, and end up being very upset at the ending!

Let’s go over that again.  You’re upset at the end of the movie because it wasn’t totally happy?  Ok… that’s fine with me too, but here’s what really took it over the edge.  We had guests who wanted a warning as to how the movie was going to end.  Last I checked, people don’t like it when they like they find out the ending to a movie before they actually see it!  I mean, people would’ve been pissed if I walked out of a Harry Potter movie screaming that Harry dies… especially if you hadn’t read the book, right?

Overall though, a lot of decent grosses, films adding to their overall total.  I wasn’t surprised since there weren’t any new film releases last week (which gives me an excuse for not having written that post!).

For those of you who do care about what I was talking about before… check out Marley and Me from your local library before going to the movie if you don’t want to get upset like those guests did.  It’s not really a big deal… but some people might appreciate it.

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Going to go take at the movies that come out this weekend for ya.  Happy New Year!

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