You can’t keep a good dog down at the box office. For the second straight week, Marley & Me (read our review) is the top dog at theaters per studio estimates bringing in just over $24 million.
Coming in second is Adam Sandler’s Bedtime Stories. The venerable family fantasy adventure pulled in $20.3 million and the second spot.
More impressively is Bedtime Stories only dropped 26% from its opening week last week. For comparison, Marley & Me dropped just under 34%.
With its second straight strong week, Marley & Me has already crossed the $100 million mark to spearhead a strong holiday movie season carrying into 2009. Its cumulative gross now stands at $106.5 million.
The remaining top 10 plays out as follows.
- 1. Marley and Me: $24m
- 2. Bedtime Stories: $20.3m
- 3. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button: $18.4m
- 4. Valkyrie: $14m
- 5. Yes Man: $13.9m
- 6. Seven Pounds: $10m
- 7. The Tale of Despereaux: $7m$
- 8. Doubt: $5m
- 9. The Day the Earth Stood Still: $4.9m
- 10. Slumdog Millionaire: $4.8m
Next week will see the comedy Bride Wars square off against its opposite, David S. Goyer’s horror flick The Unborn.
Think you know how next weekend’s box office results will shake out? Cast your predictions in the dedicated Box Office Results HDR Forums thread.
