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...sales: at an estimated $1.836.1 billion, it's just $6 million behind Titanic's $1.842 billion. And it will reach that number tomorrow, unless the world ends tonight. Of course, there has been inflation in the past dozen years; Avatar still has to top Titanic's real-dollar domestic gross of $943.3 million, as adjusted by Box Office Mojo. (Another calculation has the real-dollar Titanic take at about $800 million.) Either way, though, Cameron's doing fine. (See the best movies, TV, books and theater of the decade...
...which tanked pretty much everywhere else in the world, made $2 million on the subcontinent - enough to qualify as a decent run. The Indian box-office numbers are not impressive by U.S. standards, as tickets rates in India are a mere $1.8 compared to $8 in the U.S.; to gross $20 million, a film has to sell 12 million tickets in India, compared to 2.5 million tickets in the U.S. "Our success was a combination of great content across genres, depth of distribution and aggressive marketing," says Vijay Singh, chief executive officer of Fox Star. (See pictures about the business...
...population is aging rapidly, 1 in 6 babies delivered in 2008 was born to a foreign-passport holder. La dolce vita is also becoming ever more dependent on immigrants and their labor. The International Organization for Migration (IOM) estimates that foreign workers account for 9% of Italy's annual gross domestic product. They pick the fruit in the country's orchards, staff its restaurants and workshops and look after its young and elderly. "If all the migrants just stopped working now, the Italian economic system would collapse," says IOM spokesman Flavio Di Giacomo. (See pictures of la dolce vita...
...million) and Shrek 2 ($441.1 million) in a few days, and by next weekend it will overtake the original Star Wars ($461 million) for third place. That leaves only The Dark Knight ($533.3 million) and the all-time champ, Cameron's own Titanic ($600.7 million). In worldwide gross, Avatar is just as impressive: it made another $300 million or so this past week for a total of $1.3 billion. That vaulted it past three of the four other billion-dollar movies: The Dark Knight, the second episode of Pirates of the Caribbean and the conclusion to the Lord...
...government, Beijing sentenced Liu Xiaobo, 54, to 11 years in prison for activities that include co-authoring last year's Charter 08 petition calling for freedom of speech and religion. Rights groups, the U.S. and the E.U. condemned the sentence; authorities dismissed criticism of the activist's trial as "gross interference" in China's internal affairs...