A Christmas Carol Rings in $9 Million Friday Box Office Opening

November 07, 2009

Disney's A Christmas Carol easily won the battle of four new films at the box office on Friday by pulling in an estimated $9 million.

The Robert Zemeckis motion-capture holiday spectacle starring Jim Carrey in numerous roles bested mo-cap The Polar Express' $6.2 opening Friday but fell a little short of mo-capped Beowulf's $10 million. At its current clip, A Christmas Carol should wrap the weekend with a few million of $25 million.

Second place went to The Fourth Kind with Milla Jovovich at $5 million while The Men Who Stare at Goats earned $4.6 million behind George Clooney and Ewan McGregor.

Richard Kelly's The Box was the odd man out, coming in at $2.85 million or fifth place. Complete estimated weekend box office results will be available midday Sunday.