OUR CRYSTAL BALLS SAY

1. Avatar – $25M
2. Dear John – $16M
3. From Paris with Love – $12M
4. Edge of Darkness – $10M
5. When in Rome – $7M
6. Tooth Fairy – $6M
7. Book of Eli - $4.5M
8. Crazy Heart – $4M
9. Legion – $3M
10. The Blind Side - $2.8M

ANAL-YSIS

Will this be the week that Avatar is finally bumped from the top spot? Dear God, no. As for new releases we’ve got a weepy chick flick (Dear John) and John Travolta’s latest attempt to knock Nic Cage off the peak of Insane Actor Mountain (i.e From Paris with Love). The former combines Nicolas Sparks’ trademark maudlin melodrama AND 9/11 – two great tastes that go great together, right? – while the latter features Travolta at his most difficult-to-look-at since Battlefield Earth. I’d be perfectly fine with both films tanking hard but Dear John seems to be tracking fairly well, perhaps due to the dearth of Sandra Bullock films for Cat Lady Nation to watch when they’re not compulsively updating their OKCupid profiles’ lists of arbitrary requirements for the men they’ll never meet.

But yeah, James Cameron’s taking the weekend, just like he’s going to take the Best Picture and Best Director Oscars. Did you actually think he was kidding when he told us he was King of the World 12 years ago?

THE OTHER GUYS

Box Office Mojo (Derby)

1 Avatar – $26M
2 Dear John – $18.2M
3 From Paris with Love – $13.6M
4 Edge of Darkness – $9.6M
5 When in Rome – $7M
6 Tooth Fairy – $6.5M
7 The Book of Eli $5.3M
8 Crazy Heart – $4.5M
9 Legion – $3.5M
10 The Lovely Bones – $2.9M

Lee’s Movie Info

1 Avatar – $24.15M
2 Dear John – $19.15M
3 From Paris with Love – $12.4M
4 Edge of Darkness – $9.35M
5 When in Rome – $7.245M
6 Tooth Fairy – $6.43M
7 The Book of Eli – $4M
8 Crazy Heart – $3.64M
9 Legion – $2.92M
10 Sherlock Holmes – $2.52M

Box Office

1 Dear John – $25M
2 Avatar – $24M
3 From Paris with Love – $11.5M
4 Edge of Darkness – $8.8M
5 When in Rome – $6.7M
6 The Tooth Fairy – $6.6M
7 The Book of Eli – $4.3M
8 Crazy Heart – $3.5M
9 Legion – $3.2M
10 The Blind Side – $2.9M

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