Box Office: 'Avatar' seven-peats; Mel Gibson's 'Darkness' beats 'Rome'
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From the Los Angeles Times' Company Town.Mel Gibson may not have the star power he used to, but he cannot be vanquished by a low-budget romantic comedy.
Thriller "Edge of Darkness," which marked the controversial star's return to the big screen after a 17-year absence, sold $17.1 million in tickets in the U.S. and Canada this weekend, according to an estimate from distributor Warner Bros. That's on the high end of expectations based on pre-release surveys and a decent start given that Warner paid $27 million for domestic distribution rights to GK Films, which financed the picture.
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Its only new competition, Walt Disney Studios' romantic comedy "When in Rome," starring Kristen Bell and Josh Duhamel, debuted to a less-impressive $12.1 million. The so-so start for the modestly budgeted picture was a bit better than other recent disappointing romantic comedies, such as "Leap Year," which started with just $9.2 million.
"Avatar" continued its winning ways, as ticket sales declined a minuscule 14% to $30 million ... More details at LA Times' Company Town.
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i hope you mean 7 year absence because i know we've seen Mel Gibson in movies in 00s
Well atleast Kathryn Bigelow beat Cameron for Best Director at the DGA!! I imagine either Percy Jackson & The Olympians: Lightning Thief (this is based on a series of children's book which as we all know do very well), Shutter Island or Alice in Wonderland will finally knock it off its pedestal. Other good news is that it is dropping each week.
Mel is a legendary director/actor.
And still dead sexy.
Thanks I thought it was just me.7 is definitely the number!
I'm sorry, but Edge of Darkness looks like it came from the male revenge fantasy factory knows as Charles Bronson House of Crap. And Mel "I think the Pope is not conservative enough" Gibson is a tool.
I liked "When in Rome" (of course I also liked "Leap Year" as well) ... very cute movie!
It'd be so refreshing if one journalist would consider mentioning that those numbers all come for the studios, not some independent source, and as such are entirely meaningless and not worth commenting on...