‘Avatar’ remains box-office king with $50.3 million weekend, soars past $400 million mark

‘Avatar’ remains box-office king with $50.3M

LOS ANGELES — “Avatar” coasted to its fourth-straight weekend as the No. 1 box-office draw, pulling in $50.3 million and becoming 2009’s top-grossing movie with $430.8 million.

The top 20 movies at U.S. and Canadian theaters Friday through Sunday, followed by distribution studio, gross, number of theater locations, average receipts per location, total gross and number of weeks in release, as compiled Monday by Hollywood.com are:

1. “Avatar,” Fox, $50,306,217, 3,422 locations, $14,701 average, $430,846,514, four weeks.

2. “Sherlock Holmes,” Warner Bros., $16,585,327, 3,626 locations, $4,574 average, $165,153,093, three weeks.

3. “Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel,” Fox, $16,566,489, 3,641 locations, $4,550 average, $178,451,165, three weeks.

4. “Daybreakers,” Lionsgate, $15,146,692, 2,523 locations, $6,003 average, $15,146,692, one week.

5. “It’s Complicated,” Universal, $11,007,875, 2,955 locations, $3,725 average, $76,370,540, three weeks.

6. “Leap Year,” Universal, $9,202,815, 2,511 locations, $3,665 average, $9,202,815, one week.

7. “The Blind Side,” Warner Bros., $7,531,467, 2,880 locations, $2,615 average, $218,978,376, eight weeks.

8. “Up in the Air,” Paramount, $7,159,294, 2,218 locations, $3,228 average, $54,801,035, six weeks.

9. “Youth in Revolt,” Weinstein Co., $6,888,334, 1,873 locations, $3,678 average, $6,888,334, one week.

10. “The Princess and the Frog,” Disney, $4,651,156, 2,620 locations, $1,775 average, $92,546,727, seven weeks.

11. “The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus,” Sony Pictures Classics, $1,762,637, 607 locations, $2,904 average, $2,989,290, three weeks.

12. “Invictus,” Warner Bros., $1,722,246, 1,340 locations, $1,285 average, $33,506,889, five weeks.

13. “The Twilight Saga: New Moon,” Summit, $1,703,809, 1,167 locations, $1,460 average, $290,743,279, eight weeks.

14. “Nine,” Weinstein Co., $1,614,900, 1,060 locations, $1,523 average, $16,837,027, four weeks.

15. “Did You Hear About the Morgans?”, Sony, $1,546,172, 1,820 locations, $850 average, $28,346,423, four weeks.

16. “The Young Victoria,” Apparition, $1,180,595, 476 locations, $2,480 average, $4,588,617, four weeks.

17. “3 Idiots,” Big Pictures, $594,380, 156 locations, $3,810 average, $5,602,976, three weeks.

18. “Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ By Sapphire,” Lionsgate, $464,718, 409 locations, $1,136 average, $44,311,459, 10 weeks.

19. “Crazy Heart,” Fox Searchlight, $462,126, 33 locations, $14,004 average, $1,246,747, four weeks.

20. “Broken Embraces,” Sony Pictures Classics, $370,691, 111 locations, $3,340 average, $2,547,040, eight weeks.

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