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Here are the weekend's top-grossing pictures in North American theaters, as reported by Box Office Mojo.com...
...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...
...later suspending the licenses, after ruling that the issue of Sunday sales had to be taken to voters first. (On Feb. 9, the city appealed and Oberholtzer says he expects the issue to go to the state's Supreme Court.) "Restaurants just lost Super Bowl weekend and now they're going to lose Valentine's Day," Oberholtzer says. "It's been devastating to them...
...normal weekend day Whistler draws about 20,000 skiers. Barely 10,000 made it up the slopes the weekend before the Games began. It's an oddity known in the business as "Olympic aversion." Two million people are scheduled to descend on the Vancouver area to watch the Olympic Games over the next two weeks, but although the competition is staged at one of the world's great ski areas, very few visitors will actually ski. "The snow is spectacular. The town is Olympic ready, Games ready. The energy is off the charts," says Bill Jensen, CEO of Intrawest...
...little of that energy will be expended on the mountain. Visitor traffic was down so much the weekend before the Games that Whistler had to advertise the fact that it was open. Part of the reason for the drop in attendance was that the ski resort "lost control of the parking lots on February 1," Jensen explains (they were ceded to the Olympics), so day skiers weren't making the trip...