Jan 21 2008 'Cloverfield' Wins Weekend Box Office

1. Cloverfield - With $41 million, it really stomped the competition! Or how about, a monstrous win for Cloverfield? Or maybe, Cloverfield's weekend not as shaky as its camera? Cloverfield doesn't need its hand-held to win weekend? Whichever is most ridiculous.

2. 27 Dresses - $22.4 million, or about $830,000 per dress.

3. The Bucket List - Another $15.2 million proved it's the hot destination for baby boomers looking for something without "that awful shaky camera."

4. Juno - With another $10.3 million, next year's "this year's Little Miss Sunshine" will now be "this year's Juno," which is this year's Little Miss Sunshine.

5. National Treasure: Book of Secrets - Y'say Ghos' Rider is back hunnin' fer treasure?! Shoot, I'd collectively pay $8.1 million t'see that, y'all!

Conspicuously absent, but deservedly so: Mad Money, Alvin and the Chipmunks (finally).

Weekend Box Office Estimates [Box Office Mojo]

Jan 14 2008 Empty Nesters Weekend Box Office For 'Bucket List'

1. The Bucket List - $19.5 million. With no new episodes of CSI, everyone's parents went out this weekend.

2. First Sunday - Will a $19 million opening be enough to warrant Second Sunday After Next?

3. Juno - The quirky but charming gross of $14 million.

4. National Treasure: Book of Secrets - If you're able to suspend your disbelief that this could make another $11.5 million, you're the perfect audience for this movie.

5. Alvin and the Chipmunks - Still here, and making $9.1 million.

Weekend Box Office [Box Office Mojo]

Jan 7 2008 Weekend Box Office: 'National Treasure' Again?

1. National Treasure: Book of Secrets - $20.2 million more to the best Nicolas Cage movie since his last piece of shit.

2. I Am Legend - Yeah, I know you're legend, Will Smith. Have another $16.3 million and shut up about it.

3. Juno - Wait, it made $16.2 million and beat Alvin and the Chipmunks? It's almost as if good taste and logic have persevered over an irrational love for creepy singing chipmunks.

4. Alvin and the Chipmunks - $16 million, because there's still an irrational love for creepy singing chipmunks.

5. One Missed Call - Being the only new release, and playing off the nation's collective phobia of possibly missing a single call, helped it bring in $13.5 million.

Weekend Box Office [Box Office Mojo]

Jan 2 2008 'National Treasure' Wins Another Weekend, Somehow

1. National Treasure: Book of Secrets - Like Indiana Jones, but with a more ludicrous MacGuffin than even the Holy Grail; $35.6 million.

2. Alvin and the Chipmunks - "How about that chipmunk one, where the chipmunks are all really creepy and obnoxious? Let's see that one." Enough people said this that it accumulated $29.1 million over the weekend.

3. I Am Legend - Made $27.3 million despite recent rumors that Will Smith is Hitler.

4. Charlie Wilson's War - If I understand correctly, Charlie Wilson is to war as Merv Griffin is to Crosswords, though I don't know what that actually means; $12 million.

5. Juno - The most talked-about teen pregnancy film since the bizarre one you had to watch in 8th grade sex ed. made $10.6 million.

Weekend Box Office [Box Office Mojo]

Dec 26 2007 'National Treasure' Wins Christmas Weekend Box Office

UPDATE 2: Now shows proper numbers and standings!

1. National Treasure: Book of Secrets - With a holiday haul of $65.4 million, Jerry Bruckheimer is probably already working on National Treasure: The Search for Uncle Sam's Tomb.

2. I Am Legend - Like Tom Hanks in Cast Away, another $47.7 million proves Will Smith can support an entire film with his star power and skilled acting. Provided that he also has hundreds of CGI somethings to fight.

3. Alvin and the Chipmunks - $38.6 million, or enough to buy Alvin over 20 million hula hoops.

4. Charlie Wilson's War - Why wouldn't this war-themed comedic drama take in $15.9 million? With Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts in lead roles, this is the hottest cast of seven years ago.

5. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street - $13.6 million is the biggest opening ever for a film with an enema in the title.

6. P.S. I Love You - Against some huge holiday competition, P.S. still managed to scrap up $10 million over the extended weekend. Expect a popularity surge in post-mortem event planning.

UPDATE: I'm now seeing some discrepancy in this list, considering Alvin and the Chipmunks reportedly made almost $30 million over the three-day weekend alone. I'll see what I can figure out about this.

Weekend Box Office Results [Box Office Mojo]