People must like indentikit Vince Vaughn movies more than we thought – Four Christmases is still top of the weekend box office.

It just goes to show – at this time of year, moviegoers like nothing more than to snuggle down and enjoy lighthearted festive japes starring two of America’s most recognisable comic stars. That’s why Four Christmases has topped the US weekend box office for the second week running.

Well, it’s either that or because the most high-profile movie released on Friday was Punisher: War Zone, a film that looks as if it’s almost aggressively bumhole. Either one’s fine.

Two weeks at the top of the weekend box office? You know what this means – it means that Four Christmases is a hit! Reese Witherspoon must be so thrilled - Four Christmases is the first really successful movie she’s made since she won that Oscar for Walk The Line.

Hopefully now Reese has realised that she’s good at making this sort of lighthearted fluff and awful at making serious issues-based dramas that are put into production solely because she thinks it’ll get her an Oscar like Rendition. So what does IMDb say Reese Witherspoon’s next film will be? Monsters Vs Aliens. Sadly, that’s not the forthcoming knockabout 3D animated comedy, but a done-dry movie about the moral grey area that surrounds immigration control and human trafficking. Oh, Reese, will you ever learn? Here’s the US weekend box office top five…

1 - Four Christmases (Two weeks at the top of the weekend box office? Uh-oh – we smell a sequel. And that means we should all get set for Five Christmases, where Vince Vaughn and Reese Witherspoon spend their Christmas day visiting Reese’s mother, Reese’s father, Vince’s mother, Vince’s father and Vince’s one-legged orphan boy lovechild who was oddly never mentioned in the first film. Mark our words) $18,180,000

2 - Twilight (Make the most of Twilight‘s weekend box office success while you can, fans of abstinence-promoting vampire romances, for it won’t last for long – any day now JK Rowling is going to sign over the film rights to The Tales Of Beedle The Bard, and your weird little phenomenon is going to be blown out of the water. What’s more, it’ll be blown out of the water by something called Babbity Rabbity And Her Cackling Stump. Oh, the ignominy!) $13,197,000

3 - Bolt (A 3D remake of the Buzz Lightyear plot from Toy Story starring an animated dog with the voice of John Travolta. To save the cost of admission, we hear you can experience a fairly close approximation of the Bolt experience by getting shitfaced on fermented cheese and then falling asleep on a ghost train) $9,696,000

4 - Australia (Australia has yet to make the weekend box office impression that everyone hoped – unlike Madagascar, which has so far ratcheted up close to $165 million at the domestic box office. Australia had better pray that nobody releases a blockbuster movie called Greenland any time soon, because then Australia would be relegated to the bronze medal position of unusually large yet ultimately pointless islands with movies named after them) $7,000,000

5 - Quantum Of Solace (Still here? This isn’t a good sign – if 007 producers work out that their films do better if they’re obviously stupid, then we may as well accept that the next Bond film will contain nothing but James Bond kicking a dead cow in the eye and laughing at his own farts) $6,600,000

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Good news – Vince Vaughn’s new movie Four Christmases has done better at the weekend box office than his last Christmas movie Fred Claus.

In fact, Four Christmases has done so much better that it’s the top movie at the US weekend box office this week, beating off cultish vampire phenomenons, big-budget historical epics and dumb actioners alike.

That’s great news for Vince Vaughn and the cast and crew of Four Christmases, but don’t think that first paragraph was a compliment – just to add a little bit of perspective, here’s a list of other things that are better than Fred Claus: Bridge To Terabithia, I Now Pronounce You Chuck And Larry, Alvin And The Chipmunks, YouTube videos of people getting injured, genital herpes, crying pensioners, papercuts and smacking yourself about the face with a brick. Doesn’t make Four Christmases look so good in comparison, does it?

It looks like Vince Vaughn and Reese Witherspoon are back. After woeful turns at hamfisted kid’s films (Fred Claus) and depressingly bleak films about screaming women that apparently have something to do with the war (Rendition), their new movie Four Christmases is top of the weekend box office.

The weekend box office success of Four Christmases just goes to show that Vince Vaughn was right to only ever make bawdy yet sentimental Christmas movies these days. Just as well, since he’s now booked up to 2012 with the following movies: Jingle Balls, Merry Christmas To Ewe, Jeff’s Nuts Roasting On An Open Fire and I Saw Mommy Dicking Santa Claus. Here’s the weekend box office top five…

1 - Four Christmases (SPOILER ALERT – you know what our favourite part of Four Christmases was? The part where Vince Vaughn burbled on monotonously in his self-consciously hip way about whatever seemed to ambiently drift into his mind at any given moment in time regardless of what was going on around him FOR THE ENTIRE FILM. Oh, and one of Reese Witherspoon’s dresses was quite nice also) $31,680,000

2 - Bolt (The highest-opening 3D movie ever it might be, but Bolt deserves to be famous for so much more than that. For example, Bolt is the only movie made in the last couple of years that doesn’t make John Travolta‘s hair look weird and artificial and fake. And, yes, we do realise that in Bolt John Travolta plays a computer-animated dog. We’re just saying) $26,596,000

3 - Twilight (OK, we’ll admit that all our constant bashing of Twilight recently has been based on nothing but jealousy. Teenagers of today get to relate their adolescent problems to a gang of sexy, charisma-free vampires, but what did we have when we were their age? 3 Ninjas Kick Back and that Flash advert starring Karl Howman. Those lucky bloody teenagers, they don’t they’re born) $26,370,000

4 - Quantum Of Solace (We’ve been blathering on about Quantum Of Solace forever now, so we’re going to ignore it this week and concentrate on a movie that didn’t get into the weekend box office top five despite being widely hyped – Transporter 3. Why did Transporter 3 fail? Is it because Transporter 1 & 2 were humongous piles of steaming fart? Yes, yes that’s it exactly) $19,500,000

5 – Australia (Number five? For a movie as hyped as Australia? Is that it? Why did Australia fail? Is it because the movie is too long and self-indulgent? Is it because nobody wanted to break Nicole Kidman‘s world-beating streak of deeply unpopular movies? Is it because Nicole Kidman didn’t want to break her own world-beating streak of movies where nobody can tell what emotion she’s trying to convey with her face? Or was it because the movie is called Australia and therefore everybody assumed it’d be about a bunch of smug backpackers going to Sydney for a fortnight and then boring all their friends shitless by banging on about what an amazing time they had? The answer to all? Yes) $14,815,000

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Weekend Box Office – Box Office Mojo

One movie out this week is Four Christmases – the second part in Vince Vaughn’s trilogy of inexplicably awful Christmas films.

But Four Christmases isn’t just any old inescapably terrible Vince Vaughn Christmas film. No, Four Christmases is the Christmas film where Vince Vaughn and his co-star Reese Witherspoon apparently decided that they absolutely hated each other during filming, making the shoot a nightmare for everybody involved.

Except if you ask Reese Witherspoon about that, she’ll tell you it’s all hooey. Looking to dispel those rumours, Reese Witherspoon has come forward to say that she didn’t hate Vince Vaughn at all, and that he’s the funniest actor she’s ever worked with. Reese should be careful what she says; Jennifer Aniston once thought the same about Vince Vaughn and look what happened to her – John Mayer. Gree.

It’s Christmas soon, and do you know what that means? It means it’s time to go and watch a staggeringly disappointing Christmas movie where Vince Vaughn gets to play the exact same fast-talking character that Vince Vaughn has ever played, and there’s snow and stuff.

That’s right – Four Christmases is released this week, and it’s the perfect film for anyone who sat through all of Fred Claus and didn’t once feel like pulling their eyes out and pushing them up their bum. But only those people.

However, even though superficially it looks like Four Christmases is yet another movie where Vince Vaughn yammers away endlessly, falsely convinced of his own comedic genius, and then learns a sappy lesson about the value of family at the end, it also has its own USP. Four Christmases is apparently the Vince Vaughn/ Reese Witherspoon hate movie.

Last year it was reported that Vince Vaughn and Reese Witherspoon were clashing furiously on the set of Four Christmases because Reese Witherspoon is an Oscar-winning actress who likes preparation and Vince Vaughn usually ignores the script to just blather “Hummana hummana hummana. Hummana? Hummana HUMMANA!” for hours at a time until he says enough words to allow an editor to individually splice the original line back together. Or something.

It didn’t sound like a happy set at all but, now that Four Christmases is actually being released, Reese Witherspoon has decided to deny everything. You know what? Actually she loves Vince Vaughn. AFP reports:

“Every co-star I ever work with I’m either having an affair with him, I’m about to get married with him, or having a baby or we absolutely cannot stand each other. We got along great, we were very good friends and we were very much partners on this movie. Vince is the funniest person I’ve ever worked with. It was a challenge for me to stay there and keep up with him. But I feel really a better actor for that experience.”

Wow, that told us. So, on behalf of everyone, we’d like to apologise to Reese Witherspoon. We don’t know where the rumours about you always hooking up with your co-stars came from. Certainly not from the time you married Ryan Phillipe right after Cruel Intentions was released. Or the time you got together with Jake Gyllenhaal, pretty much the first co-star you had after the divorce from Ryan came through. Certainly not those two facts.

And also, while we’re in hole-picking mode, it seems a bit unlikely that Vince Vaughn is the funniest person you ever worked with, Reese. Remember that you also made a film with Joaquin Phoenix once. And he is funny. Or he smells funny, at least. That’s the main thing.

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Not content with making one shoddy Christmas movie in his lifetime, Vince Vaughn has signed up to star in forthcoming festive blockbuster Four Christmases with Reese Witherspoon – a woman who he's not exactly BFFs with.

It's been reported that Vince Vaughn and Reese Witherspoon keep clashing on the set of Four Christmases, thanks to Reese's insistence that each scene is planned and perfected in advance being at direct odds with Vince Vaughn's preference to just roll up at the last minute and yammer stuff off the top of his head. One thing's for sure – Reese Witherspoon and Vince Vaughn had better fall in line pretty quickly and decide whether they want Four Christmases to be hammy and overacted or lame and half-hearted, because if they're both pulling in different directions then the movie runs the very real risk of being neither of those things at all.

Woe betide any of Vince Vaughn's co-stars, that's our warning. Look at the evidence - Owen Wilson was in Wedding Crashers with Vince Vaughn and he tried to kill himself. Jennifer Aniston was in The Break-Up with Vince Vaughn and they ended up doing it. We don't know which of those is worse.

And it doesn't stop there. Before she was in Fred Claus, Rachel Weisz was an Oscar-winning serious actress, but thanks to Vince Vaughn her latest film sees her babbling in one of the most badly-defined cockney accents we've heard this side of Ocean's Thirteen. So Reese Witherspoon had better watch out unless she wants to end up almost dead, sexually attracted to Vince Vaughn or cockney now that she's co-starring in a movie with him.

That's unless she stabs him to death first. Vince Vaughn and Reese Witherspoon are starring together in Four Christmases, a movie about how hilarious it is to visit other people for Christmas especially when each of the people you visit is a broadly-drawn comedy stereotype except the last one who's probably a bit sad and heartbreaky. Four Christmases also stars Jon Favreau, Tim McGraw and Dwight Yoakim, but that's not important, because all the talk at the moment is about how much Vince Vaughn and Reese Witherspoon hate each other.

The Vaughn/ Witherspoon clash is all to do with preparation, apparently. Reports suggest that while Reese Witherspoon prefers to rehearse and rehearse to define nuance and subtlety, Vince Vaughn likes to barge on set as the cameras start rolling and make up a lot of fast-talking nonsense that hasn't got anything to do with anything. According to a source:

"Vince rolls onto set in the morning looking like he just came in from a night out, while Reese will arrive early looking camera-ready. Then Reese tries to force Vince into blocking out each scene and running through their lines as Vince tries to convince her that he's an ad-libber and wants to play around and see where the scene goes. She's a one-take perfectionist and Vince likes to try it a few different ways. Sometimes Vince will be standing behind her and he has this look on his face that he just wants to kill her!"

It's a tricky predicament, that's for sure. One the one hand you've got an Oscar-winning actress and on the other hand you've got an actor whose instincts have been proven time and time again. Both have a perfectly valid argument and both also have the ability to tear the movie apart. That's a worry, but just think how much more of a worry it'd be if all normal people hadn't already been so turned off by Fred Claus that they've decided they'd rather bury their heads in a snakepit than watch another Vince Vaughn Christmas movie in their lifetime.

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Report: Reese Witherspoon, Vince Vaughn Clash on Set – Fox