Joseph Belanger

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.

critically-panned feature is Witherspoon’s return to comedy and a blatant attempt to recapture America’s hearts and it is Vince Vaughan’s second holiday feature in a row in his apparent course to be America’s family man.