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GRANT DESME, a former top prospect for the Oakland Athletics, announcing Jan. 22 that he will quit baseball to become a priest...
...proceeded to shatter most existing box-office records at home and abroad. It has been No. 1 every week, swatting away ambitious newcomers like so many mosquitoes. And like the best ambassador for Hollywood, it has earned most of its revenue - nearly 70% - in foreign markets. (See the top 10 movies...
...Imax theaters.) Second, the rate of inflation complicates any comparison of movie hits from one decade to another. In real dollars, none of the superhits of the past decade - not The Dark Knight nor any movie with pirates, hobbits, wizards or spider-men - make the list of the 25 top-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...
...three decades since Gibson first cruised the postapocalyptic outback as Mad Max, he's forged a wayward career as one of Hollywood's top moneymakers. He fronted a couple of burly action-film franchises (three splendid Mad Max 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...
...same director at the helm (Martin Campbell, who with Casino Royale rebooted the James Bond franchise) and with William Monahan, the Oscar-winning screenwriter of The Departed, working on the script, it focuses on a familiar Gibson character: the haunted hero who solves problems by killing people. (See the top 10 James Bond gadgets...