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...other two new movies in wide release were both romantic comedies. Youth in Revolt, approximately the 67th film in which Michael Cera tries to lose his virginity, amassed $7 million on 1,873 screens - not bad at all. It managed a higher per-screen average than Leap Year, the widely reviled rom-com that sends Amy Adams to Ireland to find true love and get very wet and muddy. Leap Year took in $9.2 million. The direct competition for Adams, who played Julie in Julie & Julia, was in another romantic comedy about a woman who must choose between...
...Hollywood, winners and losers are relative: the money earned at the box office must be matched against money spent on production. It's Complicated had a hefty $85 million budget; Leap Year cost just $19 million to make; Youth in Revolt, $18 million. All three will have to scramble to break even. In the bang-for-a-buck category, the phenomenon remains The Blind Side, the sports-inspirational drama starring Sandra Bullock. Still in the top seven after eight weeks of release, the movie has now earned $219.2 million on a $29 million budget. It's now the all-time...
...that B list, the weekend's winner was Daybreakers, a vampire thriller that dared to make the creatures icky and predatory, not sweet and sexy in the Twilight fashion. A three-day total of $15 million doesn't seem like a bundle, in Avatar terms, but when you consider that the film was made in Australia back in 2007 for just $20 million, the Daybreakers gross was, if not a box-office banquet, at least a decent bite...
...standard, that is, but Avatar's. Records have fallen, and will continue to topple. Currently seventh on the all-time list of domestic moneymakers, Avatar should pass Star Wars: Phantom Menace ($431.1 million), E.T. ($435.1 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...
...Avatar, $48.5 million; $429 million, fourth week 2. Sherlock Holmes, $16.6 million; $165.2 million, third week 3. Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel, $16.3 million; $178.2 million, third week 4. Daybreakers, $15 million, first weekend 5. It's Complicated, $11 million; $76.4 million, third week 6. Leap Year, $9.2 million, first weekend 7. The Blind Side, $7.8 million; $219.2 million, eighth week 8. Up in the Air, $7.1 million; $54.7 million, sixth week 9. Youth in Revolt, $7 million, first weekend 10. The Princess and the Frog, $4.7 million; $92.6 million, seventh week...