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...critically reviled but demographically savvy Valentine's Day set a seasonal record with $52.4 million for the first three days of the long weekend, according to studio estimates. Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief, the first film from Rick Riordan's best-selling tetralogy, lured kids and their parents, with an oversize $31.2 million. Males with no kids and no dates went to the R-rated period horror film The Wolfman, which earned a respectable $30.6 million. This marks the first weekend that three new films were on top since March 20-22, 2009, when Knowing, I Love...
Valentine?s Day won the full four-day weekend, taking in a record $66.9 million, according to Box Office Mojo. Percy Jackson held second with $38.8 million; The Wolfman was third with $36.5 million. Avatar held strong in fourth, slipping only 2% from last weekend for $30 million. The James Cameron eco-epic has now earned $667.6 million, the all-time leader in current dollars and, in real dollars, is now 17th on the all-time list, between two Steven Spielberg adventures: Raiders of the Lost Ark and Jurassic Park...
...often proved fruitless. The Spiderwick Chronicles and The Golden Compass expired after one episode; and the first two films based on C.S. Lewis's Narnia novels became so expensive that Disney ditched the idea of making a third. (It has been picked up elsewhere.) Hard to say whether Percy Jackson, the son of Poseidon, will flourish on screen, but it has a hopeful start, for which director Chris Columbus deserves some credit. On his own, Columbus is no hit machine: his last two features, Rent and I Love You, Beth Cooper, earned only $29 million and $15 million, respectively...
...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...
...character is to try to enter into the mind, heart and skin of a human being who is not myself. It is the act of a writer’s imagination that I set the most high.” Lorrie Moore admires Welty and, on a vacation to Jackson, Mississippi took a photo of Welty’s house for her scrapbook. She appears to have retained Welty’s words as well. In her newest novel, “A Gate at the Stairs,” Moore enters completely into the mind, heart and skin...