THIS WEEKEND'S BOX OFFICE 1/25

Monday January 25, 2010 Posted 2 years ago by Chuck Lakefield

Director James Cameron's 3-D sci-fi blockbuster Avatar was the top movie at the North American box office for the sixth weekend in a row, lifting its domestic total to $552.8 million and its worldwide take to $1.841 billion. That's just $2 million behind the $1.843 billion made by 1997's Titanic, Cameron's previous movie, putting Avatar on track to surpass the all-time champion and give Cameron the two biggest films of all time.
The thriller Legion, starring Paul Bettany as an angel fighting for the human race against the Apocalypse, opened in second place. It also stars Dennis Quaid, Tyrese Gibson and Charles S. Dutton. The family comedy Tooth Fairy, starring Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, Ashley Judd, Julie Andrews and Billy Crystal, debuted at Number Four. It stars Johnson as a hockey player who becomes a tooth fairy after he tells a little girl that the magical creatures don't exist.
The Book of Eli, starring Denzel Washington as a traveling prophet in a post-apocalyptic America who battles an evil gang leader played by Gary Oldman while protecting the last known Bible, came in at Number Three in its second week. The drama Extraordinary Measures, starring Harrison Ford and Brendan Fraser, opened in seventh place. Ford and Fraser play a doctor and businessman who team up to develop a drug to treat a rare genetic disorder that affects children, including the two younger children of the character played by Fraser.

THIS WEEKEND'S TOP TEN MOVIES -- JANUARY 22-24

   1. Avatar, $36 million
   2. Legion, $18.2 million
   3. The Book of Eli, $17 million
   4. Tooth Fairy, $14.5 million
   5. The Lovely Bones, $8.8 million
   6. Sherlock Holmes, $7.1 million
   7. Extraordinary Measures, $7 million
   8. Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel, $6.5 million
   9. It's Complicated, $6.2 million
10. The Spy Next Door, $4.8 million