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Shocking absolutely nobody Gary Marshall’s ‘Valentine’s Day’ is leading the V-Day/Presidents Day weekend with $15 million.

The Hollywood A-lister heavy movie is predicted to bring in at least $50 million this weekend.

Rounding out Friday’s Top 5

1 – VALENTINE’S DAY $14,625,000

2 – THE WOLFMAN $9,850,000

3 – PERCY JACKSON & THE OLYMPIANS: THE LIGHTNING THIEF $9,775,000

4 – AVATAR $4,550,000

5 – DEAR JOHN $4,125,000

‘Dear John’ has managed to do what no other movie has been able to do in the last 7 weeks, knock ‘Avatar’ out of the top spot in the Box Office!!

‘Dear John’ (based of the Nicolas Sparks novel) pulled in $32.4 million over Super Bowl weekend, which was enough to beat out ‘Avatar’ whose weekend total was down to $23.8 million.

This weekend’s other new release ‘From Paris With Love’ came in at #3 with $8.1 million.

Weekend Top 10:

1 Dear John – $32,400,000
2 Avatar – $23,600,000
3 From Paris with Love – $8,120,000
4 Edge of Darkness – $7,005,000
5 Tooth Fairy – $6,500,000
6 When in Rome – $5,504,000
7 The Book of Eli – $4,835,000
8 Crazy Heart – $3,650,000
9 Legion – SGem     $3,400,000
10 Sherlock Holmes – $2,630,000

Next weekend we’ll see if the new Hollywood Heavy ‘Valentines Day’ can keep ‘Avatar’ out of the top spot.

‘Avatar’ is the #2 highest grossing movie worldwide, coming in behind ‘Titanic’.

That means the no matter what James Cameron is truly the “King of the World” when it comes to Box Office numbers.

‘Avatar’ which is currently at $1,131.8 billion worldwide still needs around $711 million dollars to out rank ‘Titanic’ holding of $1,842.9 billion.

Now I didn’t really feel the need to put up a review on this, but I will say that I have seen it (in IMAX 3D) and it was a beautiful movie.  Plot wise is was okay, but visually is was amazing.

Now, if your wondering how ‘Avatar’ is doing domestically, that is a different story.  Currently, ‘Avatar’ has brought in $374.4 million stateside, which is good enough for #2 (in 2009).  In order to beat out ‘Transformers:Revenge of the Fallen’, ‘Avatar’ will need to rake in another $27.7 million dollars.  That really should be to hard considering just yesterday (1.6.10) it brought in a little over $6 million.  However, most of the drive is coming from overseas.

So Congrats James Cameron, it really did take yourself to beat well yourself.

So far ‘New Moon’ as blown all of ‘Twilight’ records in just 9 days.

‘New Moon’ know has a worldwide total of $473.7 million dollars. ‘Twilight’ took in $384.9 million worldwide during its entire theater run.

Domestically ‘New Moon’ has brought in $230.6 million which is also higher then the $192.7 million ‘Twilight’ brought in.

Now currently the goal to beat domestically is ‘Transformers’ $402.1 million to gain the #1 spot for 2009!! If we want all time, ‘New Moon’ will need to bring in a total of at least $600.2 million domestically to beat out Titanic.

So lets keep those multiple viewings up people!!!

Per @Larry411 & Pronetworks

Summit Entertainment now officially estimates that The Twilight Saga: New Moon took in $140.7M from 4024 theaters this weekend. This puts the film in third place for all-time opening weekends, behind The Dark Knight ($158.4M) and Spider-Man 3 ($151.1M) and ahead of Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest ($135.6M). The film also hauled in $158.8M internationally. This was the widest opening of all time for an independent film and the biggest ever box office opening for an indie.

There was a 41% drop from Friday to Saturday, about the exact same percentage decrease Twilight had one year ago (down 40.8% Saturday, down 41.9% Sunday). Another 40% drop going into Sunday, based on advance sales, tracking polls, and other industry formulas, brings the weekend total to $140.7M.

However keep in mind, these are the FINAL numbers!! Final numbers will come in tomorrow, so there is still a chance to beat The Dark Knight or Spider Man 3.