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...Avatar also held well, finishing third despite losing 104 screens from last week. The James Cameron eco-epic dropped only 32%, and some time this week will cross the $700 million North American mark, fully $100 million over the previous all-time domestic champ, Cameron's Titanic. Its worldwide gross has passed $2.4 billion, nearly $600 million more than Titanic, and looks to keep going until some undetermined date when everyone on the planet will have seen it. (See the top 10 movie performances...
Until that day arrives, there's a certain male director of a movie called Avatar ... Mention an Oscar battle of the exes - she and Cameron were married from 1989 to '91 - and you get a good-natured laugh and some context. "In the art world, there was a real community," she says. In L.A., not so much. "All of a sudden that incredible community that I fed off of was gone. So meeting other filmmakers was like oxygen." One was Stone; another was Cameron, with whom she remains friendly, and whose techno-thriller story Strange Days she made into...
...been among the most reliable moneymakers the past few months. Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel has earned $214 million and The Princess and the Frog more than $100 million, while the Dwayne Johnson tyke comedy Tooth Fairy, in its fourth week, is the highest-ranking holdover except for Avatar. And as proved by the success of Valentine's Day and Dear John (which dethroned Avatar last week but fell to fifth this time), romance has made a big comeback. (See the top 10 Oscar nomination snubs...
...Wolfman, the picture will need long legs, here and abroad, to earn back its husky $125 budget. Only Sherlock Holmes ($204 million) and The Book of Eli (which will hit $100 million before it's finished) have capitalized on blood and fisticuffs. Indeed, depending on whether you count Avatar as a love story or a war epic (it's both), it's been three months since an unadulterated guy movie took the top spot: 2012, on the weekend of Nov. 13-15. Since then: New Moon, The Blind Side, The Princess and the Frog, Avatar, Dear John and Valentine...
...Valentine's Day, $52.4 million, first weekend 2. Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief, $31.2 million, first weekend 3. The Wolfman, $30.6 million, first weekend 4. Avatar, $22 million; $639.6 million, ninth weekend 5. Dear John, $15.3 million; $53.2 million, second week 6. Tooth Fairy, $5.6 million; $41.5 million, fourth week 7. From Paris With Love, $4.7 million; $15.9 million, second week 8. Edge of Darkness, $4.6 million; $36.1 million, third week 9. Crazy Heart, $4 million; $16.5 million, ninth weekend 10. When in Rome, $3.4 million; $26 million, third week...