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"A Christmas Carol" Crosses $100 million
29 Nov 2009 By Tommy Pihl (JCO Editor-In-Chief)
"Disney's A Christmas Carol" has crossed $100 million at the box office after 23 days of release as of Saturday. It took in $16.0 million in its fourth weekend boosting the cume to $105.4. The motion capture movie from Jim Carrey could finish up with around $145-165 million if it keeps showing good legs in December and around Christmas.
Internationally "Disney's A Christmas Carol" grossed $20.4 million from 5,328 screens in 48 countries for a total of $90.8 million.
The film added $3.3 million in the UK from 611 theaters for $18.9 million after four weekends and is projected to overtake director Robert Zemeckis� 2004 motion-capture spectacle "The Polar Express" by next weekend. Elsewhere, France kicked off with $3.2 million from 321, Russia generated a further $3.2 million from 304 theatres for $8.3 million as the film overtook the final tallies of "Beowulf" and "The Polar Express", while Japan produced $2.2 million from 518 for $12.4 million.
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| # | Title | Studio | Total Gross | |
| 1 | Bruce Almighty | Universal | $242,829,261 | |
| 2 | How the Grinch Stole Christmas | Universal | $260,044,825 | |
| 3 | Batman Forever | Warner Bros. | $184,031,112 | |
| 4 | Horton Hears a Who! | Fox | $154,529,439 | |
| 5 | Liar Liar | Universal | $181,410,615 | |
| 6 | A Series of Unfortunate Events | Paramount | $118,634,549 | |
| 7 | Disney's A Christmas Carol | Disney | $105,373,000 | |
| 8 | The Truman Show | Paramount | $125,618,201 | |
| 9 | Fun with Dick and Jane | Sony | $110,332,737 | |
| 10 | Ace Ventura - When Nature Calls | Warner Bros. | $108,385,533 | |
| 11 | The Mask | New Line | $119,938,730 | |
| 12 | Dumb & Dumber | New Line | $127,175,374 |
-- Source: Box Office Mojo. Click to comment this article.
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