The Top Movies of Saturday, December 18, 2004

		Movie	Distributor	Genre	Gross	Change	Thtrs.	Per Thtr.	Total Gross	Days
1	(1)	Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events	Paramount Pictures	Comedy	$11,349,235	+8.09%	3,620	$3,135	$21,713,194	2
2	(2)	Ocean's Twelve	Warner Bros.	Adventure	$7,219,821	+20.33%	3,290	$2,194	$63,590,470	9
3	(3)	Spanglish	Sony Pictures	Comedy	$3,418,749	+13.96%	2,438	$1,402	$6,351,407	2
4	(4)	The Polar Express	Warner Bros.	Adventure	$3,228,191	+29.13%	2,868	$1,126	$120,616,552	39
5	(5)	Blade: Trinity	New Line	Action	$2,711,000	+23.23%	2,912	$931	$33,568,000	11
6	(6)	National Treasure	Buena Vista	Adventure	$2,570,044	+51.18%	2,772	$927	$131,013,521	30
7	(8)	Christmas with the Kranks	Sony Pictures	Comedy	$2,298,891	+64.21%	2,941	$782	$60,378,343	25
8	(7)	Flight of the Phoenix	20th Century Fox	Adventure	$1,951,524	+30.10%	2,604	$749	$3,557,633	2
9	(9)	Closer	Sony Pictures	Drama	$1,342,745	+34.27%	1,090	$1,232	$17,819,345	16
10	(10)	The Incredibles	Buena Vista	Adventure	$1,342,237	+67.78%	1,930	$695	$235,966,381	44
11	(13)	SpongeBob SquarePants	Paramount Pictures	Adventure	$899,677	+124.92%	2,115	$425	$75,677,654	30
12	(11)	Finding Neverland	Miramax	Drama	$795,000	+32.50%	985	$807	$16,313,000	37
13	(12)	Sideways	Fox Searchlight	Drama	$674,802	+68.70%	424	$1,592	$16,079,412	58
14	(15)	The Aviator	Miramax	Drama	$327,000	+30.80%	40	$8,175	$579,000	2
15	(14)	House of Flying Daggers	Sony Pictures Classics	Action	$319,000	+27.60%	145	$2,200	$1,364,000	16