It's no 'Independence Day' or 'War of the Worlds', but it did the same thing those two films accomplished, which is take over the box office as 'The Day The Earth Stood Still' landed at the number one spot with $31 million dollars from 3,560 theaters. With Keanu Reeves, Jennifer Connelly, and Jaden Smith in the cast, the film was expected to do well despite receiving mostly negative reviews.

Dropping down to second place but still doing well was 'Four Christmases' with $13.3 million dollars. The Reese Witherspoon - Vince Vaughn comedy has grossed a total of $88 millon dollars in less than three weeks. The Vampire film 'Twilight' came in third place with $8 million dollars and a total cume of $150 M. It was announced recently that Chris Weitz ('American Pie', 'The Golden Compass') will be directing the sequel, 'New Moon'.

It may have started slower than it other animated films in the past, but Disney's Bolt keeps bringing in the kids to the theaters, landing in fourth place with $7.5 million and taking in a total of $88 million dollars so far. Rounding out the top five was 'Australia', which stars Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman, with $4 million. The film has a disappointing gross of $37 million dollars.

Meanwhile, 'Nothing Like The Holidays', which has John Leguizamo and Freddy Rodriguez in the cast, took in $3.5 million dollars from 1671 theaters.