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I put these figures up on my blog every week around midnight LA time Sunday. I do it every week and have been for as long as I’ve had a blog. You can usually see the charts over on the top right of my blog over there>>>I’m counting down to when Avatar crosses the $2 Billion mark and it won’t be long. It’s already up to $1,838,802,321
USA Weekend Box-Office Summary
week of 22 January 2010
| Rank | Title | Weekend | Gross | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  |
Avatar (2009) | $34.9M | $552M |
| 2 |  |
Legion (2010) | $17.5M | $17.5M |
| 3 |  |
The Book of Eli (2010) | $15.7M | $60.7M |
| 4 |  |
Tooth Fairy (2010) | $14M | $14M |
| 5 |  |
The Lovely Bones (2009) | $8.42M | $31.2M |
| 6 |  |
Sherlock Holmes (2009) | $6.63M | $191M |
| 7 |  |
Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel (2009) | $6.4M | $204M |
| 8 |  |
Extraordinary Measures (2010) | $6.01M | $6.01M |
| 9 |  |
It’s Complicated (2009) | $5.81M | $98.3M |
| 10 |  |
The Spy Next Door (2010) | $4.58M | $18.5M |
United Kingdom Box Office Returns
|
| Rank | Weekend Total | Weeks | Screens | Weekend screen avg. | Cumulative box office |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Avatar (2009) | ||||
| £5,527,039(16%) | 5 | 441 | £12,532 | £49,374,516 | |
| 2. | Sherlock Holmes (2009) | ||||
| £2,028,282(%) | 4 | 494 | £4,105 | £18,829,133 | |
| 3. | Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel (2009) | ||||
| £1,542,970(26%) | 4 | 492 | £3,136 | £16,862,702 | |
| 4. | It’s Complicated (2009) | ||||
| £1,300,580(18%) | 2 | 439 | £2,962 | £3,291,257 | |
| 5. | Up in the Air (2009/I) | ||||
| £1,298,023 | 1 | 325 | £3,993 | £1,298,023 | |
| 6. | The Book of Eli (2010) | ||||
| £1,232,001 | 1 | 385 | £3,200 | £1,232,001 | |
| 7. | Daybreakers (2009) | ||||
| £804,762 (-40%) | 2 | 377 | £2,134 | £2,737,375 | |
| 8. | The Road (2009) | ||||
| £470,652 (-25%) | 2 | 157 | £2,997 | £1,509,975 | |
| 9. | Did You Hear About the Morgans? (2009) | ||||
| £396,106 (-29%) | 3 | 339 | £1,168 | £2,966,211 | |
| 10. | St Trinian’s 2: The Legend of Fritton’s Gold(2009) | ||||
| £282,047 (-4%) | 5 | 366 | £770 | £6,545,874 | |
Avatar took the Golden Globe for best Picture. What a surprise. Full list of winners here:
The Chain – Fleetwood Mac
Listen to the wind blow
Watch the sun rise
Run in the shadows
Damn your love, damn your lies
{Refrain}
And if you don’t love me now
You will never love me again
I can still hear you saying
You would never break the chain
{Repeat}
Listen to the wind blow
Down comes the night
Run in the shadows
Damn your love, damn your lies
Break the silence
Damn the dark, damn the light
{Refrain thrice}
Chain, keep us together
Run in the shadows
OK, now where’s my check?
Episode 3 of James Burke’s most well-known series “Connections” which explores the surprising and unexpected ways that our modern technological world came into existence. Each episode investigates the background of usually one particular modern invention and how it came into being. These explorations are an attempt to locate the “connections” between various historical figures who seemingly had nothing to do with each other in their own times, however once connected, these same figures combined to produce some of the most profound impacts on our modern day world; in a “1+1=3″ type of way.
It is this type of investigation that is the main idea behind the Knowledge Web project; whereby sophisticated software is used to attempt to discover these subtle interconnections automatically. See http://k-web.org
