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It is the movie that pulled Avatar from its throne. “Dear John” debuted with $32.4 million in its opening weekend, knocking off the sci-fi epic movie after seven weekends as the No. 1 box-office film to $22.9 million.

On its seven weeks reign, James Cameron Avatar raised its revenue records to $639.3 million domestically and $2.2 billion worldwide and became the highest-grossing film of all time in North America and internationally. It has surpassed Titanic, which had held the records for the previous 12 years. It also became the first film to gross more than $2 billion. After all the record-breaking, it’s about the time Avatar step down and it’ll be a while before anyone breaks that record.

Dear John is based on a novel of the same name by Nicholas Sparks. It follows the story of Special Forces Army Sergeant John Tyree (Channing Tatum). On his two-week leave from Germany, he meets Savannah Curtis (Amanda Seyfried) who is a college student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The two started to fall in love but Savannah has to go back to college and John to the army. For a year, they live in a long distance relationship. John believes that year will be his final year of enlistment, but, following the September 11 attacks, their love is put to test. He is undecided whether to go home or fulfill his duty to serve the army.

Here are the weekend’s top-grossing pictures in North American theater.

1. 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

Are you a pet lover and not interested with watching the Sunday’s Super Bowl game? Here’s something you might be interested at, Animal Planet’s Puppy Bowl VI.

Puppies playing their own football game in their own replica of football stadium. Hey, it was a hit last year and was watched by 1.2 million people. Now, for the first time in Puppy Bowl history, all the action will be captured in panoramic view with aerial coverage provided by the Twizzler’s blimp and its rogue hamster crew. Not only that, the event will also feature a kitten halftime show and cheerleader bunnies. They even got their own referee, Andrew Schechter who is also the production coordinator for the show, to make sure they have a clean game.

Puppy Bowl VI was filmed in Maryland for three days with 43 adorable puppies and producers of the show are expecting it to grow even bigger. It runs from 3 pm to 5 am EST today.

For the schedule:

Pre-game Show

“Play Puppy Bowl VI: Starting Lineup There is no shortage of cuteness in this year’s Puppy Bowl. This year’s starting lineup is jam packed with puppy goodness!

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Everybody is trying to reach their hands to Haiti in every way possible. British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Simon Cowell organized a charity single, a cover of REM’s 1992 smash hit Everybody Hurt’s, in an effort to help the victims of Haiti earthquake.

The song was recorded two weeks ago and is performed by 21 artists, Leona Lewis, Rod Stewart, Mariah Carey, Cheryl Cole, Mika, Michael Bublé, Joe McElderry, Miley Cyrus, James Blunt, Gary Barlow and Mark Owen of Take That, Jon Bon Jovi, James Morrison, Alexandra Burke, Susan Boyle, Aston Merrygold and Marvin Humes of JLS, Shane Filan and Mark Feehily of Westlife, Kylie Minogue and Robbie Williams.

Everybody Hurt’s will be released internationally on Monday, February 8, 2010, and it is expected to sell over a million copies.

Listen to the official Helping Haiti single, The R.E.M. classic ‘Everybody Hurts’.

‘Everybody Hurts’ Lyics

Leona Lewis
When the day is long and the night, the night is yours alone,

Rod Stewart
When youre sure youve had enough of this life, well hang on

Mariah Carey
Dont let yourself go, cause everybody cries and everybody hurts

Cheryl Cole
Sometimes…. sometimes everything is wrong.

Mika
Now its time to sing along

Michael Buble
When your day is night alone,

Joe McElderry
(hold on, hold on)

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It was on November 2009 that the band Fall Out Boy announced that they are going to take a break, an “indefinite hiatus” for the time being. But it looks like a remote possibility that the group will ever get back together.

“I’m not in in Fall Out Boy right now… Whether we play again or not, I don’t know.”, vocalist and rhythm guitarist Patrick Stump revealed through Spin.com.

Stump’s comments were in response to Pete Wentz’s, bassist, tweets Monday night, when Wentz said that FOB may be done for good. “A hiatus is forever until you get lonely or old. I don’t plan on either,” he wrote. “I can’t imagine playing in FOB again.”

This exchanged of remarks urged the other members of the bands to speak their mind. Drummer Andy Hurley said on his twitter, “I quit too.”

Guitarist Trohman added on his twitter page: “I just did interviews with Span Magazine, Rabbling Stone and Blunder about how much quitting I done. (sic)”

Is there still hope for FOB? Hurley added, “I really wish I could tell everyone if we were done or not. But I just don’t know. It’s not looking great right now…” he further said. “Pete loves fob. I love fob. Patrick loves fob. and Joe loves fob. It’s just that we’re in different places…”

“One way or another, the band will always be around,” said Stump who is currently recording his debut solo LP. Then Wentz wrote on his blog, “There is the possibility that FOB will play again with or without me.” has previously said that his personal reason for taking a break is that he feels that his name and marriage to Ashlee Simpson had become a hindrance for the band.

Just like other bands, maybe they just need some time off. Whatever the outcome is, we would like to say Thnks Fr Th Mmrs.

The nominations for the 82nd Academy Awards, popularly known as the “Oscars“, were announced on Tuesday morning by Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences President Tom Sherak and Oscar-nominated actress Anne Hathaway at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills, California.

There’s not much of a surprise to see some of the names of nominees. James Cameron’s Avatar and Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker tied for the most nominations with 9 each. Check out the full list of nominations below:

Best Picture
* Avatar
* The Blind Side
* District 9
* An Education
* The Hurt Locker
* Inglourious Basterds
* A Serious Man
* Precious: Based on the Novel “Push” by Sapphire
* Up
* Up in the Air

Best Director
* Kathryn Bigelow – The Hurt Locker
* James Cameron – Avatar
* Lee Daniels – Precious: Based on the Novel “Push” by Sapphire
* Jason Reitman – Up in the Air
* Quentin Tarantino – Inglourious Basterds

Best Actor
* Jeff Bridges – Crazy Heart
* George Clooney – Up in the Air
* Colin Firth – A Single Man
* Morgan Freeman – Invictus
* Jeremy Renner – The Hurt Locker

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