`Four Christmases' coasts to $31.1 million debut
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'Four Christmases' coasts to $31.1 million debut to top box office
LOS ANGELES - Audiences spent U.S. Thanksgiving with Reese Witherspoon and Vince Vaughn, whose holiday comedy "Four Christmases" took in $31.1 million to open as the top weekend movie. The film opened Wednesday to get a head start on the long weekend.
The top 20 movies at U.S. and Canadian theatres Friday through Sunday, followed by distribution studio, gross, number of theatre locations, average receipts per location, total gross and number of weeks in release, as compiled Monday by Media By Numbers LLC,
`Four Christmases' coasts to $31.1 million debut
Audiences spent Thanksgiving with Reese Witherspoon and Vince Vaughn, whose holiday comedy "Four Christmases" took in $31.1 million to open as the top weekend movie. The film opened Wednesday to get a head start on the long weekend.
The top 20 movies at U.S. and Canadian theaters Friday through Sunday, followed by distribution studio, gross, number of theater locations, average receipts per location, total gross and number of weeks in release, as compiled Monday by Media By Numbers LLC:
1. "Four Christmases
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Wow. Talk about a surprise this weekend. All of our predictions, plus the majority of others, had Twilight taking the box office for its second straight weekend, but the holiday comedy Four Christmases spread its joy by grossing a whopping $46.7 million. Twilight’s $39.5 wasn’t too shabby, but the star power of Reese Witherspoon and Vince Vaughn proved too much for the tweensters this time around.
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