Academy Awards 2009: Nominations!

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Wall-E, Slumdog Millionaire, The Reader, Milk and Frost/Nixon were among the most nominated films. Who else got a nomination for an Oscar? Check out the video above. Congrats and good luck to all the nominees!

Box Office: Weekend Top Five

#1. Gran Torino-

Weekend: $29 Million- Total: $40 Million

#2. Bride Wars-

Weekend: $21.5 Million- Debut

#3 The Unborn-

Weekend: $21.0 Million- Debut

#4 Marley & Me-

Weekend: $11.3 Million- Total: $123.7 Million

#5. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button-

Weekend: $9.4 Million- Total: $94.3 Million

Marley & Me Continues at #1

Owen Wilson and Jennifer Aniston continue to have the #1 movie in America with the help of a four-legged buddy in the flick Marley & Me. For the second week in a row, they have held on to the top spot collecting another $24 million over the weekend to bring their grossed total to an amazing $106 million. Talk about success. Other movies in the top five include Bedtime Stories at #2, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button at #3, Valkyrie at #4 and finally Yes Man at #5. For a complete report, click here.

Marley & Me Tops Five Debuts at the Box Office

That's right, there were a total of five movie debuts this long holiday weekend at the Box Office and the family flick Marley & Me came out at #1 with a wide margin. Jennifer Aniston and Owen Wilson are celebrating the number one film in America which made an amazing total of $51 million! Incredible.

Following the doggy film at #2, we find Brad Pitt in the award-nominated movie The Curious Case of Benjamin Button which grossed in a very good $39 million over the long holiday weekend which started last Thursday and ended today.

Adam Sandler comes in very close at #3 in Bedtime Stories, the Walt Disney film grossed a great $38 million. Now, the last debut inside the Top 5 is Valkyrie starring Tom Cruise in Nazi Germany. The movie, which has been negatively rated by critics, managed to collect $30 million this weekend. Pretty good.

To finish up this report, I did mention five debuts in the Box Office this weekend, unfortunately, the lowest debut goes to the film Spirit, which came in at #9 making only $10 million. Not good, sadly.

Now In Theaters!

Looks like people seriously love a good puppy film! Marley & Me starring Owen Wilson and Jennifer Aniston made an estimated $14.6 million on it opening day, ranking #1 at the box office, and in the process became the biggest Christmas Day opener of all time! Congrats to them. Another film making good cash is Brad Pitt's The Curious Case of Benjamin Button which is set in New Orleans, Louisiana from the end of World War I on November 11, 1918 all the way to 2005. It follows the life of Benjamin Button, who is born with the appearance and physical limitations of a man who is 87 years old. Abandoned in a nursing home by his father, Thomas Button, Benjamin begins aging backward on the outside of his body. While in the home, he meets Daisy (Cate Blanchett), a young aspiring ballerina. As the film progresses, the two fall in love, while struggling to deal with the issue of one growing younger while the other grows older. Interesting enough. Great movies to watch this weekend!