• Genre: Action/Adventure, Drama, SciFi/Fantasy
  • Release Date: 02/14/2008
  • Running Time: 97 mins
  • Director: Mark S. Waters
  • Cast: Freddie Highmore, Mary-Louise Parker, Nick Nolte, Joan Plowright, David Strathairn, Seth Rogen, Martin Short
  • Producer: Mark Canton, Larry Franco, Ellen Goldsmith-Vein, Karey Kirkpatrick
  • Writer: Karey Kirkpatrick, David Berenbaum, John Sayles, Tony DiTerlizzi, Holly Black
  • Distributor: Paramount Pictures
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Box Office

  1. The Dark Knight, 26.1 million, 441.6 million
  2. Eagle Eye, 29.2 million, 29.2 million
  3. Nights in Rodanthe, 13.4 million, 13.4 million
  4. Pineapple Express, 23.2 million, 41.3 million
  5. Lakeview Terrace, 7.0 million, 25.7 million
  6. The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, 16.5 million, 71.0 million
  7. Fireproof, 6.8 million, 6.8 million
  8. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2, 10.7 million, 19.6 million
  9. Burn After Reading, 6.2 million, 45.6 million
  10. Step Brothers, 9.1 million, 81.1 million
  11. Igor, 5.4 million, 14.2 million
  12. Mamma Mia!, 8.2 million, 104.1 million
  13. My Best Friend's Girl, 3.9 million, 14.6 million
  14. Journey to the Center of the Earth, 4.9 million, 81.8 million
  15. Hancock, 3.3 million, 221.7 million
  16. Righteous Kill, 3.7 million, 34.7 million
  17. WALL-E, 3.1 million, 210.2 million
  18. Miracle at St. Anna, 3.5 million, 3.5 million
  19. Swing Vote, 3.1 million, 12.0 million
  20. Tyler Perry's The Family That Preys, 3.1 million, 32.8 million
Movie Title, Weekly Earnings, Total Earnings

The Spiderwick Chronicles

Freud lives and prospers in The Spiderwick Chronicles, an exceptionally oedipal fantasy adventure based on the popular children's novels by Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black. The story is stuffed with defaulting dads ripe for slaying; a freshly single mom (Mary-Louise Parker); and one majorly split personality, also known as her twin sons, intelligently played by British child actor Freddie Highmore. Steamed over their family's abrupt move, minus dad, to a ramshackle New England house that once belonged to mom's great-uncle (David Strathairn), the boys soon find themselves in a fearsomely funny netherworld where they meet a pig-faced hobgoblin voiced by Seth Rogen and a monster played by Mr. Id himself, Nick Nolte. The movie's richly autumnal look, shot by Caleb Deschanel with production design by E.T.'s James Bissell, is by swift turns cozily naturalistic and terrifyingly baroque, and director Mark Waters (Freaky Friday, Mean Girls) sustains the balance between real and surreal with mischievous brio. But CGI is a seductive mistress, and it's a pity that, toward the end, Spiderwick bogs down in too many effects and too much action before fizzling into tearful reconciliation on all fronts. — Ella Taylor

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