Benjamin Button does great job at the box office

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is pulling a great showing on the box office results so far! On just Christmas day, it made over $11 million and they’re estimating that it could hit over $45 million by the end of the weekend. It came in second place on its opening day, just behind Marley & Me.

I spend a fair amount of time on Twitter (I’m here if you’d like to follow me – it’s mostly my own stuff but I sometimes mention when I’ve posted something big here on PittWatch), and a lot of the people that I follow over there went to see Benjamin Button on either the 25th or the 26th and they all said that it was incredible. One person, my head honcho boss actually, said that he puts it in his top three favorite movies. Reviews all over the Internet have been glowing and positive. I’m sure that somewhere there must be someone who didn’t like it because there’s no movie in the world that is loved by every single person, but in the past three days I have not once seen a negative review.

I think that Brad Pitt’s movie will continue to do well, and in particular if there is any Oscar buzz, it will get another surge of popularity in January and February. I haven’t seen it yet but I plan to see it very soon.

Thank you to all the PittWatch folks who have been so kind as to leave reviews on the previous post – if you see it in the next few days, please feel free to leave your thoughts over there as well. And thank you as well for not posting any major spoilers in your reviews, that’s very appreciated for those of us who have not seen it yet!

I hope you all had a very happy holiday time. My living room looks like a toy store exploded in it and we all had a great two days of celebrating. Thanks for your patience here – I’ll head over and push through the moderated comments right now!

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