The second half of this year's Twelve Days of Box Office started in much the same way the first half ended as Marley & Me spent its fifth consecutive day in first place.

Pete Kilmer takes time out from his busy schedule of getting repeatedly killed by me in Halo to update you on this week's releases.

Randy "The Ram" Robinson knows exactly where he belongs, although the choice may not always be up to him. He's a professional wrestler, known to a legion of fans as one of the all-time greats...

This week: Sarah Michelle Gellar delves into familiar waters, Liam Neeson gets touchy and Clive Owen bounces a check.

Another day, another first place performance. Even Michael Vick couldn't stop Marley & Me.

Why do people love puppies?

This week: Alan Ball lays a goose egg, Michael Moore gets owned and comics laugh at Mr. Tanner.

Seven Pounds begins with a suicide. A man named Ben Thomas dials 911 and the operator confirms his location. When she asks him who the victim is, he replies, "I am."

The rules here are simple. We are going to discuss 25 movies. You will be given a list of names. You must pick the character that was certified dead at the end of the film. There will obviously be spoilers in this. So, we have picked titles that are at least 12 months old to avoid ruining more recent titles for you. To make things easier, we will give you a hint by also including actor names. Good luck!

London-dwelling 32-year-old Danny Wallace is a Scottish humorist who has met with considerable success in the U.K.

Clint Eastwood is one of the most literal and conservative of Hollywood directors.

You've been asking for this for a while now and here it is. We know you follow the world of sports as much as Hollywood if not more so. The two are hopelessly entwined these days, anyway. So, we might as well go with it. From now on, BOP is going to spend 20 questions a week testing your knowledge of the previous week in sports. We call this celebration of sports trivia Overpaid Jerks...because so many of them are.

Christmas week is among the most lucrative periods on the box office calendar each year. 2008 saw the release of five new titles on Christmas itself, and four of those comprise the top films this weekend.

Watchmen

Tim Briody continues BOP's evaluation of the Twelve Days of Box Office by analyzing Friday numbers.

After a lackluster month of box office to date, Christmas Day saw the release of five new titles into the marketplace. Four of them absolutely tore it up.

With the release of Christmas Eve numbers, those of you who are new to this are probably wondering what happened.

It was hyped to be the heavyweight battle for the ages: Jurassic Park versus Last Action Hero.

The Chicago Film Critics announced their annual awards on December 18th, and their choice for Best Picture is unquestionably the current unlikely dark horse in the race for Best Picture: Pixar's WALL-E.

This week: Fish threaten careers, bones are broken, cardboard is insulted and ballplayers are all heart. The holidays are in full swing, but that doesn't mean that pop culture takes a vacation. We hope you were paying attention.

Angel claims he does not have Puppet Cancer, but...

This week: Paul Rudd finds true (man) love, Beyoncé and Ali Larter get in on and Ben Stiller talks to things in a museum.

With the last proper weekend of 2008, Christmas hurls an overstuffed stocking full of new releases at us, for what should prove to be one of the most lucrative eight days of the year.

As the official holiday approaches, more consumers use vacation days. This liberates them to have the free time to go see a movie if so inclined.

Doubt is a frustrating film to watch because it intentionally holds back the truths of its situations.

This week: Shia LaBeouf runs around for two hours, Greg Kinnear turns into a pesky ghost and TBS discovers the humor in grocery stores.

Hello and welcome to the eighth annual 12 Days of Box Office here at BOP. This year is going to be a bit more interesting than usual due to the calendar configuration.

It's just not Christmas without the enchanted worlds of Rankin-Bass. Sure, they're best known for Rudolph, but in 1974 their quirky stop-motion animated The Year Without a Santa Claus aired for the first time. Ever since then, the special has been gaining fans, and continues to be a staple of Hollywood TV/movie viewing. How well do you know The Year Without a Santa Claus?

After a disappointing start to the holiday box office campaign last weekend, Hollywood turned to its biggest stars in anticipation of jump starting December box office (updated for actuals).

People did not flock to Yes Man or Seven Pounds this weekend, and our staff ponders the reasons why.

Ron Howard's Frost/Nixon is a tense, involving drama about two men who always assume too much about each other.

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Conjure Wife

Cartagena

Buck Rogers

Bob the Musical

The How-To Guide for Saving the World

Untitled Jack Ryan Project

The Green Hornet

Box office. It's right there in the title of one of our sites. You probably wouldn't be reading any of our stuff if you didn't have at least some interest in movie numbers. It's about time you step up to the plate and show that you have been paying attention. All questions are based upon North American box office unless stipulated otherwise and we are not factoring in box office inflation. How well do you know box office trivia?

Jim Carrey's return to a straight comedic role in Yes Man is rewarded with $6.5 million on Friday.

Two of the biggest names in Hollywood go head to head on this, one of the final weekends of 2008, with two very intriguing films.

Idiocracy was released in 2006 to a grand total of 130 theaters at its widest release point. This film earned a grand total of $444,000 in release.

This column will take a look back at a specific time at the movies and try and determine the factors that led to a movie's success or failure.

Strong women are what this week's episode of Top Chef is all about – both in the kitchen and at judges table.

Like It's a Wonderful Life, Miracle on 34th Street, A Christmas Story and countless others before it, Christmas Vacation is one of those must-see movies around the famed December holiday. Perhaps the best entry in the Vacation series to date (unless you found A LOT to like in Vegas Vacation), the National Lampoon comedy is just one of those funny movies that can be watched again and again and again. How well do you know it?

This week: An actor aspires to be president, a reality show host fight back and Oscar nominees throw down. Looking to impress your friends at the next holiday party? Take our quiz exploring the last seven days in pop culture, and you'll dazzle and amaze your fellow revelers.

The magic word is Kingbreaker. This is good news for all the Inhumans fans of the world, particularly Chris Hyde.

This week: Viggo Mortensen keeps the WWII train moving, Tyler Perry goes to jail and Sandra Bullock pretends she's Canadian.

Every full season of The Office has featured a Christmas episode. Save for season four, of course (damn you, writers' strike!) At any rate, season three's Christmas-themed episode marked the comedy's first one-hour episode. In it you'll find a dead goose, a trip to Benihana and a pissed off Angela (but what else is new?) In a word, the episode is AWESOME. But how well do you know it?

Watchmen

Halloween II

Morning Glory

Untitled Reese Witherspoon Comedy

The Wedding

Plan B

TRON: Legacy

The Special Relationship

Freshman Roommates

This week: The Coen brothers return to black comedy, Neil Patrick Harris sings some songs and Anna Faris dresses up like a bunny.

This charming holiday fantasy concerns 6 different couples and their friends in the 4 weeks leading up to Christmas. It's a funny, sweet look at all the various types of love out there and it stars more famous British actors than a couple of Harry Potter flicks. It's quickly becoming an annual holiday viewing mainstay, but How Well Do You Know Love Actually?

From the obscure to the obscurest to the merely overlooked or underappreciated; they all have a home in the TiVoPlex! (We haven't used the boilerplate in a while.)

The Day the Earth Stood Still earned $30.5 million. What do you take from this result, and what do you think prevented it from breaking out?

The show may have come and gone, but those of you weren't around for our live blog should enjoy watching us fail badly in our attempt to deduce the jury voting results.

Survivor: Gabon made for some intriguing and entertaining reality TV. We met an unrepentant pin-up, a certified psycho, a seething cauldron of hate and the worst Olympic champion ever. You may be a unemployed, uneducated leach on society, but how well do you know Survivor: Gabon?

The Twilight Saga: New Moon

Keanu Reeves' first post-Matrix science fiction flick, The Day The Earth Stood Still, won the weekend, but it wasn't an I Am Legend even an Alvin and the Chipmunks.

Just in time for the holidays, the everything-must-blow-up sci-fi extravaganza The Day The Earth Stood Still checked in with $11.9 million on Friday.

We join the survivors as they return from Tribal Council and Matty tells us that he thinks his vote came from Ken.

After a brief pause to clear its throat, Hollywood is back to throwing tentpole releases at us from now until the end of the year.

Gail has always been my favorite judge on Top Chef. She's smart, she's pretty, she's witty, she doesn't put on airs . . .

Run Fat Boy Run is a rare film, one that is inspiring and entertaining at the same time.

In a box office era wherein the surest way to have a mega-sized opening is to create a comic book adaptation, Watchmen is one of the oddest of curiosities.

A critical darling, Noah Baumbach's 2005 drama The Squid and the Whale tells his semi-autobiographical story of growing up with divorced parents in Brooklyn. Marking one of Jeff Daniels' finest performances to date -- man, the guy sure has matured from the Dumb and Dumber years! -- the $1.5 million flick went on to earn over $7 million at the box office. This may be so, but how well do you know it?

This week: very fortunate neck wear, thoughts of lust and impure acts. Plus: an actress is rich and an Oprah is mad. As the weather turns colder, we bask in pop culture's warm glowing warming glow. We hope you enjoy our weekly review, presented in a pleasing quiz format.

I'll go on record to say I like silly comedies as much as the next guy. But Four Christmases is missing an essential ingredient to be a working comedy: laughs.

This is the beginning of Dark Reign. Of course, BOP is more excited to hear that Scott Pilgrim Vol. 5 has an early February release date.

This week: A Friday the 13th reboot earns this edition of Trailer Hitch's highest marks with a solid B grade?! Yeah, it shocks me too.

Movies have catchphrases. Sure, these clever turns of phrase have largely been dialed down in the ubiquitous trailer era that lets the characters bring catchphrases to life. Clever marketers still do a great job of summarizing the premise of a film in a laconic phrase or two. Unless you paid close attention to the posters, you probably haven't seen most of these before, but we believe you can suss them out. So, how well do you know movie taglines?

Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel

The Twilight Saga: New Moon

Untitled Jay and Mark Duplass Comedy

Oranges

How to Talk to Girls

Escape

Rock of Ages

Hot Tub Time Machine

Fast & Furious

Robin Hood

The Wolfman

The Storm

Our staff discusses the blah weekend and other less blah stuff

This week: Batman flies into retail stores, TV's finest drama gets released in a bundle and Philippe Petit does something crazy.

What with the unnecessary, Keanu-saddled remake of The Day The Earth Stood Still out later this week, I thought it'd be as good an idea as any to do a Best Remakes A-List.

Since 2002, BOP has spent a portion of each year evaluating awards season.

Great acting, thoughtful scripts, beautiful cinematography.... many times, it is the well written and executed quip that is the most memorable part of a film. Movie quotes hold a special place in popular culture. We've decided to test your knowledge of some select film lines. We'll give you the quote, you tell us the film. Sounds easy, right? We'll see.... It's your fourth opportunity to prove how well you know your movie quotes?

I wish I could have met Harvey Milk. What an inspirational man he was, tirelessly fighting for the civil rights of homosexuals and other minorities.

You know what would make a perfect Christmas gift? A Nintendo Wii. But a TiVo would be good, too.

The Amazing Race 13 may be remembered for fielding one of the worst teams in any sort of competition, ever. Yet the most recent installment of TAR had its usual slate of colorful characters, intriguing locales and entertaining challenges. You may wonder who pushed your sports bra off the edge, but how well do you know The Amazing Race 13.

The weekend that follows Thanksgiving in the United States is one of the worst weekends of the year to open a movie, joining Labor Day as the "Two Black Holes of Box Office".

Well, this is it. Another season of the Amazing Race is about to conclude.

At least one box office tradition holds in this wacky year of 2008: the first weekend in December is always one of the worst of the year.

Ron Howard's Frost/Nixon, based on Peter Morgan's Tony-winning play of the same name, is a thrilling look into a moment some 30 years ago when a real-life David battled a quite literal Goliath and came out on top.

20 Times a Lady

Untitled Anna Faris Project

Romancing the Stone

Arthur

The Dark Knight

They Live

Four straight weeks of strong box office come to a screeching halt as we transition from November to December through the worst weekend of the year.

Previously on Survivor, after Marcus and Charlie were sent down Loser's Lane: Bob, Corinne and Randy were the only members of the once powerful Kota alliance and they were outnumbered.

Read forecasts from:
Max Braden
David Mumpower
Santa Claus

Just about two decades ago, Robin Williams was nearly the hottest comedian on the planet.

If you haven't been reading Mice Templar, here's the perfect opportunity to get into the story.

In recent years, the evolution of Top Chef has mirrored another landmark show in the genre of reality TV: MTV"s Real World.

In 1955, Walt Disney released one of its most endearing animated features. Lady and the Tramp is a story of puppy love involving two pooches from opposite sides of the tracks. You may one day turn your back on your free-spirited principles to join the leash and collar set, but how well do you know Lady and the Tramp?

This week: Bad girls are popular, seconds are sloppy, jewels are missing and reports of death are exaggerated. These are just some of the developments from the last seven days in pop culture that made us sit up and take notice. We hope you were paying attention.

Thanksgiving weekend brings a Christmas surprise, but Australia probably should have stayed down under.

This week: Spanish helmer Nacho Vigalondo goes all Donnie Darko on us, Fox Searchlight resurrects Biggie and everyone and their mom appear in a new romcom.

If you're like us, you watch a lot of TV. If you're like us, you yearn for a chance to prove your TV acumen. Boy, is this your lucky day. We'll run some episode titles by you. Can you match the titles with the correct series? If so, you'll undoubtedly feel better about yourself. How well do you know: TV Shows by Episode Title?

Rome

In the Hand of Dante

Fame

The Book of Eli

The Associate

Captain Blood

The Runaways

This week: The Atonement guy dodges a bullet, Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly hate on each other and Mulder and Scully dig around for something silly.

This Week on Watch What We Say: I pity the Foo.

Bill Murray appeared in a great stretch of movies in the earlier half of this decade -- The Royal Tenenbaums, Lost in Translation, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou. Broken Flowers, released in 2005 and from writer-director Jim Jarmusch, was the final movie in Murray's mini Renaissance (because Garfield and City of Ember will never, ever count). How well do you know it?

Better movie title? Alambrista! or Pretendiendo?

Every once in a while, a film comes to us so pure, so well produced, written and acted and paired with such a compelling story that all of us line up and salute. Charlie Wilson's War is one of those films.

As a mainstream animated feature, Bolt ably stands up with the best of them, only with a smaller presence.

It's the return of our most popular quiz series! Here's a chance for you to impress friends, neighbors and potential suitors with your knowledge of movie one-sheets. How well do you know movie posters?