Jim Carrey's A Christmas Carol Wins Weekend Box Office

Posted on November 9, 2009

A Christmas Carol wasn't as big of a box office take as insiders anticipated but it was still a box office win for Jim Carrey and Walt Disney. The film made $30 million as it opened in first place but it didn't do as well as Carrey's other Christmas film, How the Grinch Stole Christmas.

Michael Jackson's This Is It came in second and made $13 million. The Men Who Stare at Goats opened in third and made $12.7 million. It was followed by the The Fourth Kind which opened fourth and made $12.3 million. The viral marketing hit Paranormal Activitycame in fifth and made over $8 million to bring its box office tally to $97 million. The suspense thriller The Box, starring Cameron Diaz and James Marsden, opened in sixth place and made $7.5 million. Precious, a film that has considerable Oscar buzz, made $1.8 million despite a limited release opening.

The box office will probably belong to 2012 this coming weekend and it will certainly belong to New Moon the following weekend.