CORRECTING and REPLACING “MARLEY & ME” Brings Home a Record Breaking $14.75 Million on Christmas Day

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“MARLEY & ME” Brings Home a Record Breaking $14.75 Million on Christmas Day

“MARLEY & ME” Unleashes Motion Picture History with Biggest Christmas Day Opening Ever!

Audiences everywhere are feeling the love for MARLEY over the holiday weekend. U.S. moviegoers responded in staggering numbers to the Christmas Day opening of MARLEY & ME, with the family film chewing up the box-office with a record-breaking $14.75 Million -- the largest Christmas Day opening in motion picture history.

Fox Distribution President Bruce Snyder said, “These are phenomenal holiday numbers, breaking all records for a Christmas Day opening. Audiences of all ages and demographics are laughing, crying, and responding with their love of the film in staggering numbers. Marley & Me truly is the definition of a ‘feel good movie’ and families are finding that the film brings them closer together.”

MARLEY & ME tells the heartwarming and unforgettable story of a family in the making and the wondrously neurotic dog who taught them what really matters in life. Starring Owen Wilson, Jennifer Aniston, Eric Dane, and Alan Arkin and directed by David Frankel, based on the best selling book of the same title by John Grogan.

One of the world’s largest producers and distributors of motion pictures, Fox Filmed Entertainment produces, acquires and distributes motion pictures throughout the world. These motion pictures are produced or acquired by the following units of FFE: Twentieth Century Fox, Fox 2000 Pictures, Fox Searchlight Pictures, Fox Atomic, and Twentieth Century Fox Animation.