WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: Avatar #1 Fourth Straight Week
Jan. 10 2010, Published 12:41 p.m. ET
It was no contest. Avatar came in #1 at the box office this weekend, earning another $48.5 million. Only a month into release, it is already the second highest-grossing film of all time, right behind director James Cameron's other epic, Titanic, which it is expected to soon surpass.
Sherlock Holmes held on to the number two position with $16.6 million. Alvin & the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel was third with $16.3 million. The new Daybreakers came in fourth with $15 million. It's Complicated was fifth, earning another $11 million.
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The rest of the top 10: Leap Year - $9.1 million; The Blind Side - $7.7 million; Up In the Air - $7.1 million; Youth in Revolt - $7 million; The Princess & the Frog - $4.5 million.