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

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Everyone’s keeping their eyes on it and now it’s all official. Avatar has surpassed Titanic as the highest grossing film of all time worldwide. After its sixth consecutive week as No. 1 at the box office, James Cameron sank his own ship and let Avatar become the biggest-grossing offshore title in movie history. For 13 years, Titanic was the number one until Cameron launched his spectacular high-tech 3D movie.

For how much you ask? The James Cameron mega-budget blockbuster epic film hauled up a total of $1.292 billion on Sunday, exceeding “Titanic’s” box office record of $1.242 billion by $50.1 million. The foreign record actually fell Saturday of $1.288 billion.

Among the key territories on the weekend were: France ($124.8 million), Germany ($95.8 million), the U.K. ($93.2 million), South Korea ($79.7 million), Japan ($77.7 million), Australia ($77 million) and Spain ($76 million).

People who love Titanic, love Avatar even more that they came to watch the movie 2 or 3 times in theaters that helped the film reached the top. It was only released internationally on December 16, 2009 but it collected awards for Best Motion Pictures and Best Director for the film at the 67th Annual Golden Globe on January 17, 2010.

We are just amazed of how James Cameron makes his movies. Now, the only question is — when’s the sequel?

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A déjà vu for director James Cameron. Just like Titanic in 1997, Avatar has garnered awards for Best Motion Pictures and Best Director for the film at the 67th Annual Golden Globe Awards held at The Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills on Sunday, January 17, 2010.

Here’s the full list of nominees and winners.

Best Motion Picture-Drama
“Avatar” (Lightstorm Entertainment, 20th Century Fox)
“The Hurt Locker” (Voltage Pictures, 42 West, Summit Entertainment)
“Inglorious Basterds” (The Weinstein Company)
“Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire” (Lee Daniels Entertainment, Smokewood Entertainment Group, Lionsgate)
“Up in the Air” (Paramount Pictures)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture-Drama
Emily Blunt, “The Young Victoria”
Sandra Bullock, “The Blind Side”
Helen Mirren, “The Last Station”
Carey Mulligan, “An Education”
Gabourey Sidibe, “Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire”

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture-Drama
Jeff Bridges, “Crazy Heart”
George Clooney, “Up in the Air”
Colin Firth, “A Single Man”
Morgan Freeman, “Invictus”
Tobey Maguire, “Brothers”

Best Motion Picture-Comedy or Musical
“500 Days of Summer” (Watermark Pictures, Fox Searchlight Pictures)
“The Hangover” (Warner Bros. Pictures)
“It’s Complicated” (Relativity Media, Scott Rudin Productions, Universal Pictures)
“Julie & Julia” (Columbia Pictures, Sony Pictures Releasing)
“Nine” (The Weinstein Company)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture-Comedy or Musical
Sandra Bullock, “The Proposal”
Marion Cotillard, “Nine”
Julia Roberts, “Duplicity”
Meryl Streep, “It’s Complicated”
Meryl Streep, “Julie & Julia”

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture-Comedy or Musical
Matt Damon, “The Informant”
Daniel Day-Lewis, “Nine”
Robert Downey Jr., “Sherlock Holmes”
Joseph Gordon-Levitt, “500 Days of Summer”
Michael Stuhlbarg, “A Serious Man”

Best Animated Feature Film
“Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs” (Columbia Pictures and Sony Pictures Animation, Sony Pictures Releasing)
“Coraline” (Laika, Inc., Focus Features)
“Fantastic Mr. Fox” (American Empirical Picture, 20th Century Fox)
“The Princess and the Frog” (Walt Disney Pictures)
“Up” (Walt Disney Pictures, Pixar Animation Studios)

Best Foreign Language Film
“Baaria” (Italy) (Medusa Film, Summit Entertainment)
“Broken Embraces” (Spain) (El Deseo SA, Sony Pictures Classics)
“The Maid” (Chile) (Forastero, Elephant Eye Films)
“A Prophet” (France) (Chic Films, Sony Pictures Classics)
“The White Ribbon” (Germany) (Wega Films, Sony Pictures Classics)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture
Penelope Cruz, “Nine”
Vera Farmiga, “Up in the Air”
Anna Kendrick, “Up in the Air”
Mo’nique, “Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire”
Julianne Moore, “A Single Man”

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture
Matt Damon, “Invictus”
Woody Harrelson, “The Messenger”
Christopher Plummer, “The Last Station”
Stanley Tucci, “The Lovely Bones”
Christoph Waltz, “Inglorious Basterds”

Best Director-Motion Picture
Kathryn Bigelow, “The Hurt Locker”
James Cameron, “Avatar”
Clint Eastwood, “Invictus”
Jason Reitman, “Up in the Air”
Quentin Tarantino, “Inglorious Basterds”

Best Screenplay-Motion Picture
Neill Blomkamp, “District 9″
Mark Boal, “The Hurt Locker”
Nancy Meyers, “It’s Complicated”
Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner, “Up in the Air”
Quentin Tarantino, “Inglorious Basterds”

Best Original Score-Motion Picture
Michael Giacchino, “Up“
Marvin Hamlisch, “The Informant”
James Horner, “Avatar”
Abel Zorzeniowski, “A Single Man”
Karen O, Carter Burwell, “Where the Wild Things Are”

Best Original Song-Motion Picture
“Cinema Italiano,” “Nine” (Maury Yeston)
“I Want to Come Home,” “Everybody’s Fine” (Paul McCartney)
“I Will See You,” “Avatar” (James Horner, Simon Franglen, Kuk Harrell)
“The Weary Kind (Theme from Crazy Heart),” “Crazy Heart” (Ryan Bingham, T Bone Burnett)
“Winter,” “Brothers” (U2, Bono)

Best Television Series-Drama
“Big Love” (HBO)
“Dexter” (Showtime)
“House” (Fox)
“Mad Men” (AMC)
“True Blood” (HBO)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series-Drama
Glenn Close, “Damages”
January Jones, “Mad Men”
Julianna Margulies, “The Good Wife”
Anna Paquin, “True Blood”
Kyra Sedgwick, “The Closer”

Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series-Drama
Simon Baker, “The Mentalist”
Michael C. Hall, “Dexter”
Jon Hamm, “Mad Men”
Hugh Laurie, “House”
Bill Paxton, “Big Love”

Best Television Series-Comedy or Musical
“30 Rock” (NBC)
“Entourage” (HBO)
“Glee” (Fox)
“Modern Family” (ABC)
“The Office” (NBC)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series-Comedy or Musical
Toni Collette, “United States of Tara”
Courtney Cox, “Cougar Town”
Edie Falco, “Nurse Jackie”
Tina Fey, “30 Rock”
Lea Michele, “Glee”

Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series-Comedy or Musical
Alec Baldwin, “30 Rock”
Steve Carell, “The Office”
David Duchovny, “Californication”
Thomas Jane, “Hung”
Matthew Morrison, “Glee”

Best Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
“Georgia O’Keeffe” (Lifetime Television)
“Grey Gardens” (HBO)
“Into the Storm” (HBO)
“Little Dorrit” (PBS)
“Taking Chance” (HBO)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
Joan Allen, “Georgia O’Keeffe”
Drew Barrymore, “Grey Gardens”
Jessica Lange, “Grey Gardens”
Anna Paquin, “The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler”
Sigourney Weaver, “Prayers for Bobby”

Best Performance by an Actor in a Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
Kevin Bacon, “Taking Chance”
Kenneth Branagh, “Wallander: One Step Behind”
Chiwetel Ejiofor, “Endgame”
Brendan Gleeson, “Into the Storm”
Jeremy Irons, “Georgia O’Keeffe”

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
Jane Adams, “Hung”
Rose Byrne, “Damages”
Jane Lynch, “Glee”
Janet McTeer, “Into the Storm”
Chloe Sevigny, “Big Love”

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
Michael Emerson, “Lost”
Neil Patrick Harris, “How I Met Your Mother”
William Hurt, “Damages”
John Lithgow, “Dexter”
Jeremy Piven, “Entourage”

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When we say “blue creatures”, we no longer think of the smurfs. What come into our minds are the Na’vis and their beautiful planet Pandora. James Cameron’s Avatar is undeniably huge now.

Let’s review our figures here, shall we? Avatar earned $3,537,000 from midnight screenings, $77 million over its opening weekend in the U.S. and Canada alone, and a worldwide gross of an estimated $232,180,000 after three days, that’s the ninth largest opening-weekend gross of all time. It broke the records of The Dark Knight, Spider-Man’s long standing record and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. Now, it has surpassed the record the previous fourth weekend record of $28,716,310 held by Titanic. After only 27 days of being released, Avatar has grossed $445 million domestically, and $978 million in other territories with a worldwide total of $1.424 billion. Not too remote for “Avatar” to beat the $1.84 billion worldwide total for Cameron’s “Titanic.”

And what’s this? Latest news is that Cameron is planning to do a sequel to Avatar. Not entirely unexpected but still send shivers through my veins. And not only that, hopefully, he’ll arrange the franchise into a trilogy. Now that’s unforeseen.

“I’ve had a storyline in mind from the start – there are even scenes in ‘Avatar’ that I kept in because they lead to the sequel,” Cameron tells Entertainment Weekly in this week’s issue. “It just makes sense to think of it as a two or three film arc, in terms of the business plan. ‘The CG [computer graphic] plants and trees and creatures and the musculo-skeletal rigging of the main characters – that all takes an enormous amount of time to create. It’d be a waste not to use it again.”

Wow. Sam Worthington was already given the role of Jake Sully. Of course he can run now and no longer human but a Na’vi. No word about Neytiri but we’re confident that it’ll still be played by Zoe Saldana. I wonder what will be Stephen Lang’s, plays the evil Colonel Miles Quaritch, role now. He hinted “You think those two arrows in my chest are going to stop me from coming back? Nothing’s over so long as they’ve got my DNA.” Hope that they can also do something with Michelle Rodriguez.

If indeed there will be a sequel, it won’t happen anytime soon. Cameron is currently in pre-production on his next movie that will hit the big screen in 2011 called “Battle Angel” in which he’ll apply the same CG technology as “Avatar”.

It has been proven that James Cameron makes great movies. We will just patiently wait and look forward for the sequel of Avatar. “I see you.”

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He has done it again; James Cameron has made the new movie Avatar as the second-highest-grossing film ever. This guy might have some attitude issues seen when he denied a fan his autograph (which he thoroughly justified) but he sure can make one epic movie. Wait, make that “two” epic movies the first one, that is to say the, the amazingly made Titanic.

All of us know that Avatar is Cameron’s only movie after the 1997 success of Titanic. He waited that long, for the technology to flourish, and made what we movie viewers saw as a very intelligent yet quite entertaining 3D rendered Avatar. It might also be added that the movie is very original in its own sense which is what lacks to today’s movies, some movies I mean.

As of last Wednesday, Avatar has apparently reached a $1.14 billion gross ticket sale worldwide. This marked it as a new second biggest film of all time overturning the previous no. 2 “The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King.” The film is also one of the 5 films to be able to top the $1 billion mark. With still an $800 million leap from LOTR: Return of the King to Titanic, Avatar just needs a bit more (quite some more) and it will take the slot that Titanic has held on for years. Nonetheless, James Cameron has again proven that he is The King of the World (of movies that is).

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Inches of snow didn’t stop movie watchers from going to the theaters and enjoy a diverse array of high-profile releases on Christmas day.

The long-anticipated “Sherlock Holmes” movie,  ”Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel” and “It’s Complicated” all opened on December 25^th while James Cameron’s Avatar still ruled the box-office in its second week.

The estimated $278 million in weekend box-office revenue broke the previous record of roughly $253 million set in July 2008, the weekend “The Dark Knight” was released.

The 3-D blockbuster Avatar topped them all earning $75 million for 20th Century Fox, according to studio estimates Sunday. In its 10 days of release, “Avatar” has made $212 million domestically and forecast says the film could be on its way to a worldwide gross of over $1 billion.

“This thing is going to be playing and playing, I can tell you that,” said Bert Livingston, 20th Century Fox distribution executive. “There’s a lot of business out there. Everybody’s got good movies out.”

If you haven’t visited the theaters last week because of the weather, what are you waiting for? Go grab your movie tickets and some popcorns now.

Here are the top movie ticket sales Friday through Sunday, with estimated weekend receipts, and total receipts since the movie opened. The number of weeks opened is in parentheses.

Title – Weekend  -  Total
1.    Avatar (2) – 75.0   -  212.3
2.    Sherlock Holmes (1)   -  65.4  -  65.4
3.    Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel (1)  -  50.2   -  77.1
4.    It’s Complicated (1)   -  22.1   –   22.1
5.    Up in the Air (4)  -  11.8   -  24.5
6.    The Blind Side (6)  -  11.7  -  184.4
7.    The Princess and the Frog (5)  -  8.7  -  63.4
8.    Nine (2)  -  5.5  -  5.9
9.    Did You Hear About the Morgans? (2)  -  5.0  -  15.6
10.    Invictus (3)  -  4.4  -  23.4

(in millions of dollars)

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Director James Cameron and 20th Century Fox have officially released their new trailer for the much hyped Avatar movie online. The trailer has already been attached to theatrical releases since last Friday but they decided to wait a week before letting it hit the net.

ComingSoon has also shared a new 4-minute behind-the-scenes featurette with new footages from the movie. You can watch it below.

Avatar follows the story of Jake Sully, is a former Marine who was wounded and paralyzed from the waist down in combat on Earth. Jake was recruited to join an expedition to the moon Pandora, which corporate interests are strip-mining for a mineral worth $20 million per kilogram on Earth. Pandora is also home to the Na’vi, a sentient humanoid race, who are considered primitive, yet are more physically capable than humans. Standing three meters tall (approximately 10 ft), with tails and sparkling blue skin, the Na’vi live in harmony with their unspoiled world. As humans encroach deeper into Pandora’s forests in search of valuable minerals, the Na’vi prepared to defend their planet and themselves from those who threatened existence.

Jake has unwittingly been recruited to become part of this encroachment. Since humans are unable to breathe the air on Pandora, they have created genetically-bred human-Na’vi hybrids known as Avatars. In his new avatar form, Jake can once again walk. His mission is to interact with and infiltrate the Na’vi with the hope of enlisting their help in mining the ore. Sent deep into Pandora’s jungles as a scout for the soldiers that will follow, Jake encounters many of Pandora’s beauties and dangers. There he meets a young Na’vi female, Neytiri.

Jake integrates himself into the Na’vi clan, and begins to fall in love with Neytiri. As a result, Jake finds himself caught between the military-industrial forces of Earth and the Na’vi, forcing him to choose sides in an epic battle that will decide the fate of an entire world.

The 3-D science fiction epic film will hit theaters and IMAX 3D December 18, 2009.

New Avatar Trailer.

4-minute behind-the-scenes clip.

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