You can withdraw the claws, Hugh Jackman; You’ll be able to don those muttonchops for years to come.

I get it. You like Beyonce. Her songs are catchy; her body is rockin’. But really, does she really need to be a bankable movie star too?

Zac Efron is the new king of the prom!

Vin Diesel and Paul Walker may appeal to the ladies out there but the ladies are no match for the tween girls.

Hollywood has a new lesson to learn. April should not be dismissed and Vin Diesel should never be underestimated.

It isn’t exactly foreign, or alien if you will, to see an animated feature come out on top of the chart with massive numbers. This specific debut though certainly packed a particularly monstrous wallop.

No one considered the race to be much of one with any actual contest.

You would never know there was an economic crisis going on if you just looked at this year’s box office results. For the second week in a row, the highest drop off was just over 30% and that wasn’t even for the critically lambasted Pink Panther 2. No, there was plenty to celebrate this weekend with Valentine’s Day falling on the biggest date night of the week and Friday the 13th returning to theatres just in time to have the release day coincide with the film’s title.

Alright, yes, Paul Blart: Mall Cop held on to the number one spot this weekend with a very narrow decline. And yes, Underworld: Rise of the Lycans opened in second place with respectable numbers considering Kate Beckinsale did not return for this third outing.

Ah, January – the only time of year where a movie about an overweight mall cop can pull in over $30 million in its opening weekend and a film about a dog hotel can open, period.

Well I’m off to a smashing start for 2009. I figured it would be no problem whatsoever for Anne Hathaway and Kate Hudson to march themselves down the aisle and all the way to the top of the box office. Not only did they have to settle for second place but they almost got beat by a horror movie about an unborn twin that needs his live twin to die in order to be born. Right.

Both Marley & Me and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button set records this Christmas. The latter’s one-day tally of $12 million would become the second biggest Christmas day opening of all time. That said, the one with the dog made $14.7 million that same day and you know what that means. It means that people like Jennifer Aniston better than they like Brad Pitt.

In the end though, it would appear that Mother Nature was the big winner this weekend. With most of the eastern portion of North America covered in snow, the big showdown between Jim Carrey and Will Smith got lost in the blizzard.

Aliens may have descended upon the box office this weekend but it was the art house and wards contenders that brought on the major invasion.

The Top 10 saw two debuts this week. One was a modest success and one was an embarrassment. Punisher: War Zone pulled in one third of what its 2004 predecessor, The Punisher.

After performing to sold out crowds and record-breaking grosses in Europe for the last two weeks, it is no surprise to see Bond debut atop the charts with Quantum of Solace, the 22nd film in the franchise.

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