The Top Movies of Saturday, December 6, 2008

		Movie	Distributor	Genre	Gross	Change	Thtrs.	Per Thtr.	Total Gross	Days
1	(1)	Four Christmases	Warner Bros.	Comedy	$6,969,302	+21.16%	3,335	$2,090	$65,384,210	11
2	(2)	Twilight	Summit Entertainment	Drama	$5,341,803	+17.31%	3,620	$1,476	$135,250,814	16
3	(3)	Bolt	Walt Disney Pictures	Comedy	$4,418,924	+81.17%	3,516	$1,257	$76,443,308	16
4	(4)	Australia	20th Century Fox	Drama	$2,932,167	+30.39%	2,721	$1,078	$29,049,689	11
5	(5)	Quantum of Solace	Sony Pictures	Action	$2,919,413	+34.00%	3,423	$853	$149,965,845	23
6	(8)	Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa	Paramount Pictures	Comedy	$2,325,137	+84.12%	3,317	$701	$164,162,728	30
7	(7)	Transporter 3	Lionsgate	Action	$1,881,191	+22.71%	2,626	$716	$24,294,814	11
8	(6)	Punisher: War Zone	Lionsgate	Action	$1,476,202	-11.34%	2,508	$589	$3,141,222	2
9	(9)	Cadillac Records	Sony Pictures	Drama	$1,390,788	+14.81%	687	$2,024	$2,602,209	2
10	(10)	Role Models	Universal	Comedy	$1,048,850	+17.02%	1,907	$550	$60,988,490	30
11	(11)	Milk	Focus Features	Drama	$752,278	+48.91%	99	$7,599	$3,707,013	11
12	(12)	Slumdog Millionaire	Fox Searchlight	Drama	$606,353	+59.80%	78	$7,774	$4,923,138	25
13	(13)	The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas	Miramax	Drama	$436,161	+43.86%	678	$643	$6,365,594	30
14	(14)	Changeling	Universal	Thriller/Suspense	$214,495	+42.88%	681	$315	$34,546,997	44
15	(16)	The Secret Life of Bees	Fox Searchlight	Drama	$95,771	+58.06%	432	$222	$36,933,310	51
-	(17)	The Dark Knight	Warner Bros.	Action	$81,269	+52.63%	269	$302	$530,487,981	142
-	(18)	Frost/Nixon	Universal	Drama	$75,740	+52.34%	3	$25,247	$125,457	2
-	(20)	The Polar Express	Warner Bros.	Adventure	$73,484	+129.75%	26	$2,826	$397,924	1,488
-	(19)	Eagle Eye	Paramount Pictures	Thriller/Suspense	$48,135	+25.79%	205	$235	$100,377,826	72
-	(22)	Max Payne	20th Century Fox	Action	$22,497	+30.75%	145	$155	$40,505,795	51
-	(21)	Pride and Glory	Warner Bros.	Drama	$20,403	+15.63%	180	$113	$15,692,796	44
-	(23)	Burn After Reading	Focus Features	Black Comedy	$19,815	+35.74%	78	$254	$60,233,986	86
-	(24)	The Duchess	Paramount Vantage	Drama	$18,668	+29.24%	135	$138	$13,812,170	79
-	(25)	Appaloosa	Warner Bros.	Western	$16,492	+24.37%	104	$159	$19,981,045	79
-	(26)	Body of Lies	Warner Bros.	Thriller/Suspense	$15,849	+35.80%	44	$360	$38,960,456	58
-	(29)	City of Ember	20th Century Fox	Adventure	$12,078	+69.99%	83	$146	$7,772,947	58
-	(27)	RocknRolla	Warner Bros.	Action	$10,068	+26.85%	36	$280	$5,615,732	60
-	(32)	Deep Sea 3-D	Warner Bros.	Documentary	$8,463	+96.63%	9	$940	$37,047,102	1,010
-	(28)	Righteous Kill	Overture Films	Thriller/Suspense	$8,355	+14.00%	89	$94	$40,049,403	86
-	(30)	My Name is Bruce	Image Entertainment	Horror	$6,506	+20.93%	1	$6,506	$149,014	37
-	(31)	Nights in Rodanthe	Warner Bros.	Drama	$6,265	+23.11%	45	$139	$41,552,515	72
-	(re-entry)	Were the World Mine	SPEAKproductions	Musical	$4,173	+39.08%	3	$1,391	$47,713	37
-	(33)	Noah's Arc: Jumping the Broom	Logo Features	Romantic Comedy	$3,916	+69.38%	5	$783	$523,433	44
-	(34)	Journey to the Center of the Earth	Warner Bros.	Adventure	$3,731	+109.72%	41	$91	$101,699,039	149
-	(35)	Hounddog	Empire Pictures	Drama	$2,093	+28.25%	3	$698	$126,429	79
-	(36)	I.O.U.S.A.	Roadside Attractions	Documentary	$711	+36.47%	2	$356	$807,326	107
-	(37)	House	Roadside Attractions	Horror	$275	+13.64%	3	$92	$570,659	30
-	(38)	The First Basket	Laemmle/Zeller Film	Documentary	$226	+76.56%	1	$226	$19,869	39

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