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Warner Bros romantic comedy flick ‘Valentines Day’ has grossed $52.4 Million by Sunday. Valentines Day has dominated the Hollywood box office. The movie features famous Hollywood actors such as Julia Roberts, Ashton Kutcher, Jennifer Garner, Shirley Maclaine, George Lopez, Jessica Biel and Jamie Foxx.

‘Valentines Day’ opened last Friday with direct competition to movies like ‘Percy Jackson and The Olympians: The Lightening Thief’ and ‘The Wolfman’.However, it was the romantic flick that raked in the moolah at theaters. Obviously, the name ‘Valentines Day’ releasing around Valentines day may have had something to do with the response. The release date could not have been any better. Most market analysts claim that young women are their biggest source of income for romantic comedy film such as Valentines Day – especially since they become repeat watchers as well.

The most toughest competition were given by ‘Percy Jackson and The Olympians: The Lightening Thief’ which grossed $31.1 million and ‘The Wolfman’ which grossed the third highest this Valentines weekend.

The other movies which did not make as much waves as Valentines Day were ‘Tooth Fairy’ ( $5.6 million), ‘From Paris with love’ ($4.7 million), ‘The edge of darkness’ ($4 million), ‘Crazy Heart’ ($4 million) and ‘When in Rome’ ($3.4 million).

The resounding opening grossed by ‘Valentines Day’ is in sharp contrast to the critics rating at Rotten Tomatoes- as only 15% of the critics liked the movie. The only success mantra which was perhaps employed was the title of the film and its time of release, which guaranteed that ‘Valentines Day’ would be a successful movie.

The sci-fi animation craze Avatar will soon cross the collosus $1 billion mark in revenues. Avatar has done so ridiculously well that it seems Avatar will cross $900 million over the weekend and race towards the $1 billion mark in a matter of couple of days after that.

Avatar seems to be the competition for James Cameron’s Titanic (Cameron has also directed Avatar). Titanic managed to gross $1.8 billion worldwide and  Titanic was at the box office for 15 consecutive weeks after release.

Avatar grossed 27 million on its opening night whereas New Moon made 72 million by comparison. If this movie, Avatar had bombed at the box office it would have been a paralyzing loss as the Avatar budget is estimated at over $500 million or half a billion.

Director James Cameron has also been talking about making a sequel for Avatar – Avatar 2 that is. And this he said two months before the first Avatar was released in theaters.

Avatar has been wowing fans all across the globe who have been dazzled by the awesome visual treats that it provides.

Britain’s biggest-selling tabloid, The Sun, called it

“the most dazzling film of the decade. … The final battle scene is 20 minutes long and absolutely mind-blowing.”

There is also some Presidential gossip – President Barack Obama and his family spent the last day of his year watching the tech-heavy Avatar film. Obama, his family and friends watched the movie at a theater near their rented vacation home in Hawaii.They had the whole theater to themselves.