'Marley & Me' tops boxoffice again

January 04, 2009 Fox's neurotic-canine comedy "Marley & Me" proved sufficiently dogged amid tough holiday competition to repeat atop the domestic boxoffice during the weekend with an estimated $24.1 million. Elsewhere among the frame's top finishers, Disney's Adam Sandler family fantasy "Bedtime Stories" slid a skimpy 26% from its opening weekend to register $20.3 million in second place, with an $85.4 million cume. Paramount's epic-length adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's short story "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," starring Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett, was third with $18.4 million, as a smallish 31% dip from last frame's tally led to a $79 million cume since the film's Christmas bow.

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