Four Christmases Leads the Way.

Thanksgiving is over. I’m sure you’re all recovering from overeating and lounging around with family and traversing the holiday crowds, I know I am. According to box office estimates a lot of you also went to the movies over the holiday weekend. The top twelve movies this weekend at the box office grossed a total of $223.7 million, second only to $232.2 million take of 2000.

Four Christmases, the Warner Brothers comedy starring Reese Witherspoon and Vince Vaughn hauled in $31.7 million over the weekend for a five day total of $46.7 million. The comedy was the only Christmas themed film to open, and one of only two scheduled to open this Christmas season.

Bolt and Twilight were virtually neck and neck over the weekend, with Disney’s Bolt edging into second place with $26.6 million. Summit Entertainments Twilight suffered a second week drop of 62.1% and a take of $26.4 million, with a two week total of $119.7 million.

Sony’s Quantum of Solace sunk to number four with $19.5 million. The latest James Bond film has grossed $142.1 million domestically and $308.3 million overseas, bringing its seventeen day total to $450.4 million.

The Fox released Australia took in $14.8 million. The Baz Luhrmann directed WWII period piece starring Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman has pretty much flopped with a five day take of $20 million and a budget of $130 million.

The rest of the bottom recites a little like this: In sixth was DreamWorks Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa with $14.5 million. Opening in seventh was the Jason Statham lead Transporter 3 with a $12.3 million haul for distributor Lionsgate. Universals Role Models dropped to eighth with $5.3 million. At ninth was the Miramax release of The Boy in the Striped Pajamas with a weekend total of $1.7 million and a four week total of $5.1 million on 582 screens.

And opening in tenth was Focus Features bio-pic Milk, starring Sean Penn as the first openly gay elected official Harvey Milk who was murdered in November of 1978. The Gus Van Sant directed picture took in $1.4 million on 36 screens with on-sight average of $38,361.

See you next week you crazy kids.