BOX OFFICE BEAT DOWN: Dear John Beats Avatar with $32.4 Million

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE 1) Dear John – $32.4 million 2) Avatar – $23.6 million 3) From Paris with Love $8.1 million 4) Edge of Darkness – $7 million 5) Tooth Fairy – $6.5 million 6) When In Rome $5.5 million 7) The Book of Eli – $4.8 million Crazy Heart $3.6 million 9) Legion [...]

Avatar Breaks Titanic’s All-Time Record

Avatar is the biggest movie ever.
James Cameron’s unstoppable sci-fi epic has surpassed Titanic to become the highest-grossing film of all time. Avatar entered Monday $2 million shy of Titanic’s global benchmark of $1.843 billion and passed the tally by mid-day, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Final numbers are expected later Tuesday.
Avatar on track to top [...]

JB: Canada's Haiti Telethon Will Be Better Than America's | Justin …

To those still thinking that telethons are a tender way of showing our support to people who don’t speak our language or eat the same food that we do: You’re wrong! Philanthropy, like any modern past-time is a cut-throat game of one-upmanship and after last night’s Hope for Haiti Now, Canada’s raising the stakes for [...]

FX Buys Rights To Avatar For $25 Million – Techland – TIME.com

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After raking in a billion dollars and selling out a few thousand 3D screenings, the film force that is Avatar has seeped into TV execs’ fantasies.
Variety is reporting that FX just bought the basic cable rights to James Cameron’s blockbusting flick Avatar for a tidy $25 million sum.
But, take away the large screens, the [...]

Sherlock Holmes fails to dethrone Avatar from top spot

A strong Christmas Day at the US box office didn’t give Sherlock Holmes the push it needed to dethrone James Cameron’s sci-fi love story Avatar over the weekend.
The humans vs. aliens movie, starring Sam Worthington and Zoe Saldana, scored a second week at the top of the chart with a stunning $75 million three-day take.
The [...]

Merry Xmas in Hollywood: Box-officerecord falls

by JAKE COYLEAP Entertainment Writer
NEW YORK (AP) – It was a memorable and merry Christmas in Hollywood as moviegoers shattered box-office records, responding in droves to a diverse array of high-profile releases over the holiday weekend.
The estimated $278 million in weekend box-office revenue broke the previous record of roughly $253 million set in July [...]

Merry Christmas: Box-office record falls

NEW YORK (AP) — it was a memorable and merry Christmas in Hollywood as moviegoers shattered box-office records, responding in droves to a diverse array of high-profile releases over the holiday weekend.
The estimated $278 million in weekend box-office revenue broke the previous record of roughly $253 million set in July 2008, the weekend [...]

James Cameron's “Avatar” continued its reign on top yielding $75 million

(Entertainment Weekly) — Hollywood gave itself one heck of a Christmas present this year: the single best day in the history of the box office.
The weekend’s slate of movies racked up a record-setting $278 million overall haul, with James Cameron’s “Avatar” ($75 million) leading the charge. The sci-fi epic dipped an incredibly slim [...]

Olivia Munn Has the Blues – Literally! – in Avatar Parody

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It’s an Attack of the Show! special unlike any other when Olivia Munn enlists Eva Amurri to recreate the James Cameron film Avatar on G4’s Olivia! the Munn-der Years, which airs Dec. 28.
In one new sketch, Munn and Amurri channel Thelma & Louise, with Amurri tackling the Louise role [...]

Should You See Avatar? About 75 Percent Of People Who Tweet About It Think You Should

James Cameron’s visually-thrilling Avatar started out modestly for a mega-Hollywood sci-fi blockbuster, pulling in only $27 million its first day at the box office (compared to $72 million for Twilight Saga: new Moon and $68 million for Transformers). but Avatar is the “iPhone of Movies,” as Michael likes to call it (I think he’s seen [...]