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From the moment of its release on Dec. 18, James Cameron's Avatar has monopolized the top box-office spot like some gigantic truck that not only takes up two lanes but also drives everyone else off the highway. To stop a road hog, send out a road warrior: the one and only Mad Max, Mel Gibson, a bona fide movie icon playing a trademark haunted-hero role in Edge of Darkness, his first starring role since Signs...
...matter. Avatar sent Gibson into a ditch, earning $30 million, according to early studio estimates, bringing its 45-day total in North American theaters to $594.5 million. On Tuesday, Feb. 2, it should pass the $600.8 million amassed in 1997-98 by Cameron's own Titanic and become the all-time domestic box-office champ (in fake dollars). In theaters worldwide, Avatar is already the all-time No. 1 and the first picture ever to cross the $2 billion mark. Since the movie's earnings fell only 14% from last weekend's - every other returning film in this week...
...Best Director, besting his ex-wife Kathryn Bigelow, who was nominated for The Hurt Locker. That exemplary Iraq war drama, which won most of the critics' awards, earned just $12.7 million in its domestic release and $3.4 million abroad, for a worldwide total of $16.1 million - less than Avatar amassed at the North American box office last night. Not to equate artistic merit with commercial success, but the members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences do like their winners to be movies and actors who have been seen. Almost nobody saw The Hurt Locker; nearly everybody...
...Avatar, $36 million; $552.8 million, sixth week 2. Legion, $18.2 million, first weekend 3. The Book of Eli, $17 million; $62 million, second week 4. The Tooth Fairy, $14.5 million, first weekend 5. The Lovely Bones, $8.8 million; $31.6 million, seventh week 6. Sherlock Holmes, $7.1 million; $191.6 million, fifth week 7. Extraordinary Measures, $7 million, first weekend 8. Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel, $6.5 million; $204.2 million, fifth week 9. It's Complicated, $6.2 million; $98.7 million, fifth week 10. The Spy Next Door, $4.8 million; $18.7 million, second week...
Read a Q&A with Avatar director James Cameron...