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“Avatar” crushed its rivals at the New Year holiday weekend box office and is poised to challenge “The Dark Knight” as the second-biggest movie ever. If the trend continues, the film may take the top spot away from Cameron’s “Titanic.”
The twelve top producing motion pictures for the weekend, per data collected as of Sunday, January 3, 2010 include:
| Rank | Title | Distributor | Weekend Gross | Cume | Locations | |
| 1 | Avatar | 20th Century Fox | 68,300,000 | 352,111,074 | 3461 | |
| 2 | Sherlock Holmes | Warner Bros. | 38,385,000 | 140,675,000 | 3626 | |
| 3 | Alvin And The Chipmunks: The Squeakquel | 20th Century Fox | 36,600,000 | 157,345,259 | 3747 | |
| 4 | It’s Complicated | Universal | 18,700,135 | 59,104,880 | 2897 | |
| 5 | The Blind Side | Warner Bros. | 12,650,000 | 209,052,000 | 2926 | |
| 6 | Up In The Air | Paramount | 11,350,000 | 45,020,000 | 1895 | |
| 7 | The Princess and the Frog | Disney | 10,013,000 | 86,085,000 | 3328 | |
| 8 | Did You Hear About The Morgans? | Sony | 5,200,000 | 25,620,000 | 2718 | |
| 9 | Nine | The Weinstein Company | 4,250,000 | 14,047,000 | 1412 | |
| 10 | Invictus | Warner Bros. | 4,130,000 | 30,755,000 | 2170 | |
| 11 | The Twilight Saga: New Moon | Summit Entertainment | 3,605,000 | 287,752,522 | 1627 | |
| 12 | Brothers | Lionsgate | 1,290,000 | 27,510,000 | 858 | |
