Doggie on top
Marley and Me, the dog-centric holiday comedy, stayed atop the post-holiday box office last weekend as the family film earned $24.2 million in its second week of release, good enough to stay on top. The film now stands at $106 million in domestic take since it opened, but has only added a meager $5.3 million in foreign ticket receipts thus far.
Bedtime Stories was close behind with a $20.5 million weekend and finally made its $80 million budget back by going to $85 million in total take. Benjamin Button was third with $18.6 million and at $79.2 million so far, still is only just over halfway to making back its lofty $150 million budget.
Valkyrie ($14 million), Yes Man ($13.9 million) and Seven Pounds ($10 million) rounded out the top six as the only movies to go over $10 million on the weekend. While none of these movies are exactly bonfires of the bathroom vanities, the results are mixed as films like Marley and Me overperform, but highly-touted dramas like Tom Cruise’s Valkyrie continue to disappoint.
No new movies debuted over the weekend following New Year’s Eve.

