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...grossing domestic films. Titanic is the only picture of the past quarter-century in the top 10. (It's sixth.) Cameron's new film would have to take in some $950 million in today's dollars just to match his last one. Avatar is barely more than a third of the way toward reaching the real-dollar champ, Gone With the Wind. (See what was learned from a decade at the movies...
...movies; four shoddy, popular Lethal Weapons). Ten of his films earned more than $100 million from 1989 to 2002, back when that was real money. His Scots epic Braveheart won him Oscars for Best Picture and Best Director. That was just Gibson's second film as director; his third, The Passion of the Christ, in 2004, was the all-time top-grossing film in both the R-rated and foreign-language (Aramaic, if you recall) categories. (See the top 10 Jesus films...
...Dear John, $32.4 million, first weekend 2. Avatar, $23.6 million; $630.1 million, eighth week 3. From Paris with Love, $8.1 million, first weekend 4. Edge of Darkness, $7 million; $29.1 million, second week 5. Tooth Fairy, $6.5 million; $34.3 million, third week 6. When in Rome, $5.5 million; $20.9 million, second week 7. The Book of Eli, $4.8 million; $82.2 million, fourth week 8. Crazy Heart, $3.7 million; $11.2 million, eighth week 9. Legion, $3.4 million; $34.7 million, third week 10. Sherlock Holmes, $2.63 million; $201.6 million, seventh week 11. The Blind Side, $2.6 million; $241.6 million, 12th week...
...first is a 12% increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide since the study began - the same CO2 increase implicated in global warming. The second is the warming itself. And the third is an increase in the growing season, defined as the length of time between the last frost in spring and the first frost in fall, which is also a consequence of warming. "We couldn't narrow it down further than that," says Parker. (See the top 10 invasive species...
...notion of unfettered access to communications is so uncontroversial as to seem almost trite, but it is a revolutionary demand in countries such as Iran and China where it threatens the regimes' hold on power. That's the reason that one third of the world that has any access to internet sees a version censored by their governments. Declaring a kind of soft war on this new information curtain being drawn across the "new iconic infrastructure of our age", the U.S. is now committing itself to actively undermining censorship. In China, that means going up against some 50,000 government...