`Avatar' continues ascend with $68.5M weekend

LOS ANGELES – The sci-fi adventure "Avatar" maintained its blockbuster expedition with a $68.5 actor weekend domestically. The blur attempt accomplished $1 billion worldwide, acceptable alone the fifth cine to hit that mark.

The top 20 movies at U.S. and Canadian theaters Friday through Sunday, followed by administration studio, gross, cardinal of amphitheater locations, boilerplate receipts per location, absolute gross and cardinal of weeks in release, as aggregate Monday by Hollywood.com are:

1. "Avatar," Fox, $68,490,688, 3,461 locations, $19,789 average, $352,114,898, three weeks.

2. "Sherlock Holmes," Warner Bros., $36,612,481, 3,626 locations, $10,097 average, $138,715,437, two weeks.

3. "Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel," Fox, $35,189,653, 3,747 locations, $9,391 average, $155,916,935, two weeks.

4. "It's Complicated," Universal, $18,802,965, 2,897 locations, $6,490 average, $59,178,840, two weeks.

5. "The Blind Side," Warner Bros., $11,912,749, 2,926 locations, $4,071 average, $208,476,067, seven weeks.

6. "Up in the Air," Paramount, $10,720,052, 1,895 locations, $5,657 average, $44,375,265, bristles weeks.

7. "The Princess and the Frog," Disney, $9,824,311, 3,328 locations, $2,952 average, $85,859,339, six weeks.

8. "Did You Hear About the Morgans?", Sony, $4,932,338, 2,718 locations, $1,815 average, $25,312,384, three weeks.

9. "Invictus," Warner Bros., $3,909,312, 2,170 locations, $1,802 average, $30,586,445, four weeks.

10. "Nine," Weinstein Co., $3,901,203, 1,412 locations, $2,763 average, $13,745,976, three weeks.

11. "The Twilight Saga: New Moon," Summit, $3,442,263, 1,627 locations, $2,116 average, $287,954,655, seven weeks.

12. "3 Idiots," Big Pictures, $1,494,542, 132 locations, $11,322 average, $4,757,078, two weeks.

13. "Brothers," Lionsgate, $1,192,134, 858 locations, $1,389 average, $27,414,913, bristles weeks.

14. "2012," Sony, $1,093,128, 800 locations, $1,366 average, $163,442,129, eight weeks.

15. "Precious," Lionsgate, $924,203, 629 locations, $1,469 average, $43,492,192, nine weeks.

16. "The Young Victoria," Apparition, $891,371, 165 locations, $5,402 average, $2,456,337, three weeks.

17. "Old Dogs," Disney, $711,002, 620 locations, $1,147 average, $47,239,575, six weeks.

18. "Disney's A Christmas Carol," Disney, $554,866, 981 locations, $566 average, $137,443,917, nine weeks.

19. "The Road," Weinstein Co., $542,635, 306 locations, $1,773 average, $6,858,313, six weeks.

20. "A Single Man," Weinstein Co., $486,958, 46 locations, $10,586 average, $1,731,649, four weeks.

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Universal Pictures and Focus Features are endemic by NBC Universal, a assemblage of General Electric Co.; Sony Pictures, Sony Screen Gems and Sony Pictures Classics are units of Sony Corp.; Paramount and Paramount Vantage are capacity of Viacom Inc.; Disney's ancestor is The Walt Disney Co.; Miramax is a analysis of The Walt Disney Co.; 20th Century Fox, Fox Searchlight Pictures and Fox Atomic are endemic by News Corp.; Warner Bros. and New Line are units of Time Warner Inc.; MGM is endemic by a bunch of Providence Equity Partners, Texas Pacific Group, Sony Corp., Comcast Corp., DLJ Merchant Banking Partners and Quadrangle Group; Lionsgate is endemic by Lions Gate Entertainment Corp.; IFC Films is endemic by Rainbow Media Holdings, a accessory of Cablevision Systems Corp.; Rogue Pictures is endemic by Relativity Media LLC; Overture Films is a accessory of Liberty Media Corp.