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...young male dreamboat. The interracial Our Family Wedding, with America Ferrara and Forest Whitaker, earned $7.6 million to finish sixth (after the holdover Shutter Island). So the four brand-new movies took in only about $40 million. It's the first weekend since the chill of pre-Avatar December when only two movies made more than $10 million...
...million; $208.6 million, second week 2. Green Zone, $14.5 million, first weekend 3. She's Out of My League, $9.6 million, first weekend 4. Remember Me, $8.3 million, first weekend 5. Shutter Island, $8.1 million; $108 million, fourth week 6. Our Family Wedding, $7.6 million, first weekend 7. Avatar, $6.6 million; $730.3 million, 13th week 8. Brooklyn's Finest, $4.3 million; $21.4 million, second week 9. Cop Out, $4.2 million; $39.4 million, third week 10. The Crazies, $3.7 million; $33.3 million, third week...
...Size. Over the decades, the membership has shown a fondness for small dramas with an obvious social message and a prejudice against gigantic science-fiction pictures that use pioneering techniques to create a compelling new world - albeit with their own obvious social message. Avatar is every bit as political as The Hurt Locker in its eco-friendly theme, and much more boldly anti-military: by the end of the movie, viewers are meant to be cheering for the deaths of the U.S. soldiers trying to occupy Pandora. It didn't help. The Oscar voters saw Avatar (if they did watch...
...victors' chief competition, Meryl Streep and Clooney, were two more examples of the haves: 16 Oscar nominations (but no win since 1983) for Streep, and radiant Clooneyness for George. What do you give the man who has everything? Nothing. Same with Cameron, whose $2.5 billion worldwide take for Avatar will let him cry all the way to the bank, which he could now buy. (See the top 10 movie performances...
...more Oscar than Cameron did on Sunday night. Hell, the hippie Swedish dude who did the sound editing and mixing for The Hurt Locker out-statuetted Cameron two to nothing. And at the end of the broadcast, co-host Steve Martin kidded, "The show is so long that Avatar now takes place in the past." Now that's just piling on. By then, Cameron was the underdog. Martin should have made a joke about that have-it-all The Hurt Locker...