'Avatar' is likely to surpass 'Titanic'.
After a strong Martin Luther King Day weekend there's no doubt left
that "Avatar" will surpass "Titanic" atop the box-office charts, but
two new movies managed to find their audiences too.The 3-D
phenomenon "Avatar" raked in $54.6 million Friday through Monday in the
U.S. and Canada, according to an estimate from distributor 20th Century
Fox.
The Denzel Washington action film "The Book of Eli" and the Peter
Jackson-directed book adaptation "The Lovely Bones" had healthy
nationwide openings of $38 million and $20.5 million, respectively. The
Jackie Chan family comedy "The Spy Next Door," meanwhile, had a so-so
opening of $13 million.