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JANUARY 29, 2010 FEATURE - 2010 OSCAR NOMINATIONS AND WHAT THEY MEAN. Coming in 2 weeks (for members only)... "Beat the Critic" Oscar Contest. Become a member - JOIN CinemaTrek.
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DEAR JOHN SENDS AVATAR TO SECOND PLACE FEBRUARY 5-7 A new film finally knocked James Cameron's Sci-fi epic Avatar from it's lofty perch in first place.
Fueled by countless teen girls and young women, Dear John, based on the popular novel by Nick Sparks, took in $32 million compared to $23 for Avatar.
It is the first time in seven weeks that Avatar was not in first place. The other newbie, John Travlota's action flick From Paris with Love finished a distant thirdby grabbing an paltry $8 million.
Nevertheless Avatar stands at $630,093,000 domestically and $2,204,693,000 world-wide. Keep in mind that
many of these movie sales a for the premium priced IMAX plus the additional $3 per ticket charge for 3D at
conventional theaters. Coming in fourth was Mel Gibson's Edge of Darkness. The Tooth Fairy finished fifth garnering
$6.5 mil. When in Rome and The Book of Eli finished sixth and seventh respectively hovering around $5 million each.
Critically acclaimed Crazy Heart finally got released in more theaters and finished with $3,6 million ahead of Legion. Sherlock Holmes
fell significantly to the tenth slot to round out the listings best.
The Blind Side and
Up in the Air
fell out the top ten despite each receiving key Oscar noms.
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Movie DEAR JOHN AVATAR FROM PARIS WITH LOVE EDGE OF DARKNESS THE TOOTH FAIRY WHEN IN ROME THE BOOK OF ELI CRAZY HEART LEGION SHERLOCK HOLMES [*
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Estimated
Gross $32,400,000 $23,600,000 $8,120,000 $7,005,000 $6,500,000 $5,504,000 $4,835,000 $3,650,000 $3,400,000 $2,600,000 |
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Gross $32,400,000 $630,093,000 $8,120,000 $29,097,000 $34,333,000 $20,899,000 $82,163,000 $11,188,000 $34,678,000 $201,579,000 |
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"VALENTINES DAY" SEQUEL TO BE "NEW YEAR'S EVE" New Line Cinema tabbed Garry Marshall to direct a spinoff of the soon-to-be-released film
"Valentine's Day" (which opens February 12, 2010). The story, with most of the same characters from "Valentine's Day", will
be set in New York City on New Year's Eve. "New Year's Eve" will be shot at the end of this year for release in late
2011 with "Valentine's Day" producers Mike Karz and Wayne Rice returning as well as screenwriter Katherine Fugate. AVATAR PASTS TITANIC AS NON-STOP #1 ALL-TIME MONEY MAKER With the actuals in, Monday January 25th "Avatar" surpassed "Titanic" to become the worldwide highest-grossing
movie ever. Its worldwide total stands $1.859 billion, compared to $1.843 billion for "Titanic".
The Monday gross was $3.2 million domestic and an estimated $16.9 million foreign, which put it over the top. SCREEN ACTORS GUILD WINNERS FOR FILM 2010 Screen Actors Guild Award winners in film.
Motion Picture Supporting Actor - Christoph Waltz, "Inglourious Basterds", Motion Picture Best Actor &
Actress - Jeff Bridges, "Crazy Heart" & Sandra Bullock, "The Blind Side", Motion Picture Ensemble Cast
"Inglourious Basterds", Motion Picture Supporting Actress - Mo'Nique, "Precious", and Outstanding Performance
by a Stunt Ensemble - in a Motion Picture "Star Trek".
MOVIE TICKETS USURP DVD SALES In 2009, revenue from movie tickets in the U.S. exceeded the retail sales of
movies on packaged video for the first time since the mid-1990s. Consumers' are now spending more to attend
movies than on homevideo movies for the first time in more than a decade, according to media analyst Adams
Media Research. The flop in spending patterns was due both to the health of the theatrical film business and
to consumers preferring to rent rather than buy DVDs. Americans spent $28.4 billion on all movie transactions
in 2009, virtually even with $28.5 billion spent in 2008, while the number of transactions rose 3.5% to a hair
under 5 billion. Adams counts all transactional delivery, including theatrical, DVD and Blu-ray rentals and
purchases, cable/satellite/telco video-on-demand rentals, online rentals and online purchases. |
HD MOVIE TRAILERS [Large HD format]
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[DVD, BLURAY] BUY LOVE HAPPENS (2/2/2010) Aaron Eckhart plays a man who makes a living as an expert on grieving. During the course of teaching a seminar, he meets and begins to fall for a floral designer (Jennifer Aniston), a discovery that leads him to face up to the fact he has not fully reconciled the loss of his wife. [DVD, BLURAY] BUY A SERIOUS MAN (2/9/2010) Coen Brothers black comedy set in 1967 concerning a Midwestern physics professor whose staid and stable life slowly begins to unravel after his wife announces that she's leaving him. [DVD, BLURAY] BUY COUPLES RETREAT (2/9/2010) Their relationship in danger of dissipating, a couple racing to salvage their marriage invites three other couples to join them at a tropical island resort. Upon arriving at the island paradise to enjoy some carefree fun in the sun, the other couples are disturbed to discover that participation in therapy sessions is mandatory if they hope to remain at the resort. [DVD, BLURAY] BUY TIME TRAVELERS WIFE (2/9/2010) A Chicago librarian suffers from a rare genetic disorder that sends him hurtling through time whenever he is under extreme duress; despite the fact that he vanishes at inordinately frequent and lengthy intervals, he attempts to build a stable future with the beautiful young heiress he loves. [DVD, BLURAY] BUY THE STEPFATHER (2/9/2010) [DVD, BLURAY] When a teenage boy (Penn Badgley) begins to suspect that his new stepfather (Dylan Walsh) is a notorious serial killer who preys on broken families, he races to gather the evidence that will back up his radical claim before it's too late. BUY BLACK DYNAMITE (2/16/2010) The city streets explode into violence when "The Man" kills Black Dynamite's (Michael Jai White) brother in this seamless recreation of the blaxploitation classics of the 1970s. 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