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There was no shame in the runner-up slot for Eli's directors, the twins Albert and Allen Hughes, or for the star, Denzel Washington, who in his first real action role enjoyed the second highest opening weekend of his career, after the 2007 American Gangster. Peter Jackson's dreamlike horror drama The Lovely Bones, about the afterlife of a murdered girl, ended five weeks of very limited playdates and earned $17.1 million in three days of wide release. Analysts credited the decent showing for this odd, no-star drama to a marketing campaign aimed at teen girls. (Think...
...last weekend's new offerings, the dystopian vampire drama Daybreakers and the Michael Cera comedy Youth in Revolt lost way more than half their original grosses to pratfall out of the top 10. The drop for Amy Adams' rom-com Leap Year was not so steep; it stayed on the heels of the similar, more star-laden It's Complicated. The two big Christmas hits, Alvin and Sherlock, remained in the top five, while The Blind Side, the Sandra Bullock sports weepie that has been in the top 10 for nine consecutive weeks, is still the season's sleeper smash...
Those three films can give themselves back-pats, but they still huddle in the huge shadow of Avatar. And it may take a while for a new release to dethrone Cameron's picture over an entire weekend. It slipped only 18% from last weekend's take, and tomorrow it's likely to cross the $500-million mark at the domestic box office. Next weekend it should pass The Dark Knight ($533.3 million domestic), leaving Cameron just one more barrier - his own Titanic - between Avatar and the all-time box office record. (The usual advisory: as ticket prices keep rising, inflation...
Here are the weekend's top-grossing pictures in North American theaters, as reported by Box Office Mojo.com...
...Avatar, $41.3 million; $491.8 million, fifth week 2. The Book of Eli, $31.6 million, first weekend 3. The Lovely Bones, $17.1 million; $17.5 million, sixth weekend 4. Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel, $11.5 million; $192.6 million, fourth week 5. Sherlock Holmes, $9.8 million; $180 million, fourth weekend 6. The Spy Next Door, $9.7 million, first weekend 7. It's Complicated, $7.7 million; $88.2 million, fourth weekend 8. Leap Year, $5.8 million; $17.5 million, second weekend 9. The Blind Side, $5.6 million; $226.8 million, ninth weekend 10. Up in the Air, $5.5 million; $62.8 million, seventh weekend...