Brad Pitt and ex-wife Jennifer Aniston reunited this weekend, sort of. Both of them had movies opening on Christmas Day and together they set a box office record.

Aniston’s Marley & Me, a feel-good movie costarring Owen Wilson about a young family and mischievous dog, was the leader of the pack, grossing $14.8 million, the highest one-day total ever for a film opening on Christmas.

But Pitt’s The Curious Case of Benjamin Button wasn’t far behind. The film, about the life-long romance between a man who ages in reverse (Pitt) and a woman (Cate Blanchett), set the record for the second-highest Christmas opening of all-time with $11.8 million.

Both films exceeded box office expectations by 40-50 percent, Variety reports.

This probably wasn’t the reunion some fans were hoping for, but hey, at least all that money might help the economy! Yeh, probably not.

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