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27 Dec 2009 21:09

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Culture: “Avatar” barely even budged from its opening weekend

  • 2% less – and less snow – than last weekend source
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27 Dec 2009 20:58

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Culture: This weekend was huge for the box office, with lots of hits

  • $75M the take of “Avatar,” which led the pack and held on for its second weekend
  • $65M the take of 2nd-place Robert Downey Jr.’s take on “Sherlock Holmes”
  • $50M the take of crap machine “Alvin & The Chipmunks: The Squeakuel” source
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20 Dec 2009 21:42

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Culture: Avatar screwed by a massive winter storm. That must’ve hurt.

  • $73 million in box-office results – OK but not amazing results for the movie that’s gonna change life itself
  • 75% dip in movie sales in D.C. on Saturday – sorry, movie industry, we were ordering pizza in our apartment
  • 57% dip in movie sales in Philadelphia on Saturday; we’ve always seen Philly as a wannabe D.C. source
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18 Dec 2009 16:11

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Culture: Based on midnight showings, “Avatar” is no “New Moon”

  • $3.54 million “Avatar”‘s midnight box-office total last night; a modest sum, BTW
  • $26.3 million “New Moon”‘s midnight box-office sum; it holds the record source
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18 Dec 2009 09:26

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Culture: Avatar’s holding its own with the critics, who really like it

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17 Dec 2009 22:10

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Culture: Avatar’s on track to have one of THOSE box-office debuts, guys

  • $75 million (plus!) anticipated this weekend alone source
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15 Dec 2009 09:21

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Culture: The Golden Globe nominations have George Clooney sitting pretty

  • six nominations for George Clooney’s much-loved “Up in the Air”
  • five nominations for super-gaudy, super-huge musical “Nine”
  • four nominations each for “Inglorious Basterds” and “Avatar” source
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15 Dec 2009 08:18

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Culture: “Avatar” director James Cameron a death-defying arrogant prick

  • 2 number of times James Cameron has nearly died inside a sub source
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14 Dec 2009 11:04

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Culture: Poll: Do you think that “Avatar” will be a hit, or just overhyped?


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11 Dec 2009 11:24

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Culture: “Avatar” may actually not suck – in fact, it may be a huge hit

  • $187 million the predicted amount “Avatar” should make in its first four weeks, according to the Hollywood Stock Exchange
  • $65-84 million the amount Yahoo predicts that the movie will make in its first week, based on search results about the movie source
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