Avater News World Box Office Record

LOS ANGELES: Science-fiction epic “Avatar” set a new world box office record, earning 1.85 billion dollars and sinking “Titanic” to become the highest grossing film of all time, figures showed Tuesday.

“On Monday, January 25, ‘Avatar’ officially passed ‘Titanic’ to become the highest grossing film in history at the worldwide box office,” 20th Century Fox studios said in a statement.

It added that Oscar-winning director James Cameron’s groundbreaking 3-D spectacular had by Monday taken 16 million dollars more than “Titanic,” which was also directed by Cameron.

“Avatar” had taken 1.859 billion dollars, compared with the box-office total for the 1997 Oscar-winning “Titanic” which took 1.843 billion dollars, the statement said.

Holidays Vampire Sequel ‘New Moon’ at Box Office

LOS ANGELES, News update: The ‘Twilight’ vampire romance sequel ‘New Moon’ took a record-breaking bite out of the North American box office this weekend, final figures showed on Monday.

The second big-screen installment adapted from Stephenie Meyer’s phenomenally successful books raked in an astounding 142.8 million dollars in three days, the third biggest opening of all time, Exhibitor Relations said.

Only Batman sequel “The Dark Knight” with 158.4 million dollars and “Spider-Man 3″ with 151.1 million dollars have scored bigger openings.

However, the “New Moon” earnings are considered remarkable because the film was released in November, outside of the traditional summer blockbuster season.

Although the movie was unable to dethrone “The Dark Knight” or “Spider-Man 3″ for highest opening weekend, it did set records for biggest midnight opening and opening day, figures showed.

The “Twilight” franchise follows the fortunes of high school teenager Bella Swan, played by Kristen Stewart, and her vampire lover Edward Cullen, played by British heart-throb Robert Pattinson.

The success of “New Moon” left American football drama “The Blind Side” in second place.

The feel-good film, adapted from Michael Lewis’s 2006 book, is based on the real-life journey from rags to riches of Baltimore Ravens star Michael Oher.

Starring Sandra Bullock as the woman who helps Oher realize his dream, it earned a healthy 34.1 million dollars in its opening weekend.

In third place, end-of-the-world film “2012″ brought in 26.4 million dollars, more than double its next-runner-up, “Planet 51,” with 12.3 million.

“Disney’s A Christmas Carol” earned 12.2 million, trailed by acclaimed abuse saga “Precious” with 10.9 million dollars.

In seventh place was satire “The Men Who Stare At Goats,” starring George Clooney and Jeff Bridges as members of a military unit schooled in psychological warfare. The film took 2.8 million dollars.

Eighth spot was taken by comedy “Couples Retreat,” which earned 1.9 million dollars while extra-terrestrial drama “The Fourth Kind” was ninth with 1.7 million.

Michael Jackson concert movie “This Is It” completed the top 10 with 1.6 million dollars.

Small horror film slays ‘Saw’

“Saw VI” expected to win the box office, but a film reportedly made for $15K beat it out.

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Priyanka goes BlueBlue

While the Bollywood box office is waiting for the release of Akshay Kumar’s Blue,Priyanka has made her hair go blue with blue funky streaks.

She says, “Oh, this is not for any movie. I have done it for myself. All these years I have been doing something or the other for a movie, but these blue streaks are just for fun. An idea that occurred to me randomly and I went ahead with it.”

“There are times when you want to do something different, I guess that is where the idea came from,” added the actress who played 12 different characters in her recently released.”

So folks love Priyanka’s blue streaks?

Roman Polanski, "SNL" F Bomb, National Parks: What’s the Buzz

by Claudine Zap

Our top picks from the day’s hottest searches.

Roman Polanski (Searches increased by 11,124%). The ex-pat director vowed to fight extradition from Switzerland. He was arrested there on a 30-year-old arrest warrant for statutory rape.
“SNL” F bomb (+696%). Newbie castmember Jenny Slate made a rookie mistake in the season opener. Contrary to the rumors, “SNL” says they won’t be dropping her for dropping the “F” word.
Yom Kippur 2009 dates (+678%). The Jewish Day of Atonement ends at nightfall.
Weekend box office (+304%). The animated children’s flick “Cloudy with a Chance o

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