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 'Avatar' rules worldwide box office, eyes 'Titanic' record
Science-fiction epic "Avatar" surged past the 500-million-dollar mark at the North American box office this weekend, maintaining its push towards an all-time record, final figures showed Tuesday.
Director James Cameron's groundbreaking 3-D spectacular added to its haul over the four-day Martin Luther King holiday weekend with another 54.4 million dollars, box office tracker Exhibitor Relations said.
The movie has raked in more than 1.6 billion dollars worldwide since its release and is on course to overtake Cameron's 1997 Oscar-winner "Titanic," which remains the highest-grossing film of all time with 1.8 billion dollars.
In North America "Avatar" has earned 504.9 million dollars in only 32 days, and now stands third behind 2008 Batman sequel "The Dark Knight" (533.3 million dollars) and "Titanic" (600.8 million).
"The records are starting to look inevitable now -- Cameron will end up sinking his own ship," quipped Exhibitor Relations chief analyst Jeff Bock in reference to "Avatar's" pursuit of "Titanic."
"The box office numbers have moved beyond the usual demographics. People who would never normally go to see a science fiction film or a film in 3-D are going to see 'Avatar' because they want to be part of the conversation. Read the details
  Nancy Meyers directs It's Complicated"I didn't want the film to be associated with Hollywood"
How did you come up with the plot for IT'S COMPLICATED?
I am not sure, because it's not as if one day I suddenly had it; but it started off as a movie about this woman, and then the ex-husband came in. And once I had decided that she has an affair with him things began to fall into place.
Are relationships complicated by nature, or do we complicate them much more than we need to?
Both! It is naturally complicated to open yourself to somebody else and let your guard down; but in this case it's even more complicated as they were married but got divorced, he is married again now to a younger woman, and she is dating someone else.
It's complicated, but also relatable.
When we previewed the movie to a public that didn't know much about it, the most common thing they said - after that it was funny - was that it was very relatable.
Is it true that you wrote the movie with Meryl Streep in mind for the lead role of Jane?
Yes, very early in the writing I started to think about her. You see I write movies, not books, and I need to picture someone saying those lines because if I just write without doing so, it's limited. Read the interview
 Martin Scorsese Q&A for Shutter IslandThis film was very difficult for Leo...
What came first, the script or the book?
A: I read the script first and then I read the book. And I liked the story, obviously, and I liked how it resolved itself. The main character goes on this incredible journey and it's about his acceptance of responsibility, how he handles his guilt and how he overcomes his violence ultimately.
I was interested in what it's like to have such a life and the choices you make, the choices that you feel are better for yourself, but not necessarily for other people. I was also interested in the story of a man who can only take so much pain. I thought that... Read the interview
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