Jennifer Aniston's puppy flick, "Marley and Me," maintained its top spot at the box office for a second week in a row, beating ex Brad Pitt's "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," yet again.

With no wide releases to compete against, Twentieth Century Fox's family movie, also starring Owen Wilson, took a huge bite of this weekend's box office drawing in $24.1 million, according to studio estimates Sunday, raising its total to a staggering $106.5 million since opening on Christmas day.

"A picture doesn't stay No. 1 for two weeks without getting great word of mouth," said 20th Century Fox distribution executive Bert Livingston.

"It's a feel-good movie. That's what people want to see right now."

Based on John Grogan's bestselling memoir about his family's dog, "Marley and Me" became the first Christmas holiday movie to hit the magic $100 million mark.

Jennifer Aniston must be enjoying the success since her ex-hubby's romantic drama "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," also starring Cate Blanchett, slipped to No. 3 with $18.4 million. Curiously enough, the romantic drama directed by David Fincher from a screenplay by Eric Roth about a man's journey as he's aging backwards, couldn't dethrone Adam Sandler's comedy "Bedtime Stories" which secured the second spot with $20.3 million, lifting its overall ticket sales to $85.4 million.

With a hefty haul of $79 million, "Benjamin Button" appears to be headed for the $100 million mark and unless "The Dark Knight" is nominated for a best picture Academy Award, the movie could be the only blockbuster among the Oscar best-picture nominees.

Rounding up the top five, MGM's Tom Cruise World War II saga "Valkyrie" came in on fourth with $14 million and the Warner Bros. Jim Carrey comedy "Yes Man" was fifth with $13.9 million.

Will Smith's drama "Seven Pounds" released via Sony was still strong on No. 6, with $10 million, while Universal’s "The Tale of Despereaux," an animated family film featuring the voices of Matthew Broderick and Emma Watson, of the "Harry Potter" movies raked in $7 million securing the seventh spot.

Miramax's drama "Doubt," starring Philip Seymour Hoffman and Meryl Streep, fell only 6% to $5 million in its second weekend of wide release, fetching eighth place and an $18.7 million cume through four frames of limited and wide distribution.

"The Day the Earth Stood Still," a remake of the eponymous 1951 sci-fi classic, starring Keanu Reeves and Jennifer Connelly, enjoyed yet another weekend in the top ten with $4.9 million while Fox Searchlight's drama "Slumdog Millionaire" claimed the tenth position with $4.8 million, lifting its cume to $28.9 million.

Two more Nazi-themed movies which opened for a limited audience, "Defiance," a Jewish resistance picture starring Daniel Craig, and the Viggo Mortensen vehicle "Good," managed to earn $121,000 and $9,300 respectively during the weekend.

Compared to the same weekend in 2008, this weekend's revenues registered a 7.4 percent increase as the top 12 movies brought in a total gross of $130.1 million at the start of the year.