Dancing penguins and the revamped James Bond switched places atop the box office over the Thanksgiving holiday, but Happy Feet and Casino Royale remained one-two with family audiences—at $38 million and $31 million, respectively—who pushed both near or over the $100 million threshold in just two weeks. The other J.B., Tenacious D's Jack Black, was not so fortunate, as the stoner comedy Tenacious D In "The Pick Of Destiny" proved that sometimes "cult following" is often another way of saying "of marginal interest"; it opened outside the Top Ten with a paltry $3.1 million take. The only Thanksgiving opening to make much noise was the latest Jerry Bruckheimer-Tony Scott mind-number Déjà Vu, which slipped into third with a healthy $20.8 million. And the annual Christmas-themed nut-crunching-family-comedy-with-a-heart, Deck The Halls, did a little worse than such cynical enterprises generally do, bowing to a blessedly modest $12 million.
As for The Fountain, arguably the nuttiest major-studio movie since the same studio (Warner Brothers) released Solaris, it squeaked into the Top 10 with $3.7 million, ensuring that director Darren Aronofsky will be forced to do something commerical as penance. In limited release, the slow-rolling Volver continues to perform robustly wherever it opens; it made the leap from 6 screens to 30 over the holiday and still had the highest per-screen-average in the country at $17,300, confirming Pedro Almodovar as international cinema's most bankable director.
More detailed numbers can be found at Box Office Mojo.