‘Avatar’ Is Top Film, Nears $1 Billion Sales Mark
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“Avatar,” the futuristic 3-D adventure, was the top film in the U.S. and Canada for the third straight weekend with $68.3 million in sales, and will cross the $1 billion mark in domestic and international receipts today.
The James Cameron film will have taken in an estimated $1.02 billion overall for News Corp.’s Twentieth Century Fox since its Dec. 18 release, according to Hollywood.com Box- Office. Time Warner Inc.’s “Sherlock Holmes” was second this weekend with $38.4 million, and Fox’s “Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel” was third with $36.6 million.