Weekend Receipts: It's Ava (yawn) tar

Join us now, your stalwart Movieline editors, as we re-adjust to non-Sundancian life with an analysis of the weekend's box office numbers. And hey -- what do you know? Avatar is the biggest movie in America. So much has changed! It's all Rip Van Winkle up in here.

1. Avatar

Gross: $30,000,000 (cume: $594,472,000)

Screens: 3,074 (PSA: $9,759)

Weeks: 7 (Change: -14.1%)

This is getting ridiculous. In its seventh week, Avatar dipped a measly 14% and pulled in $30 million -- or almost three When in Romes. That brings its domestic take to within spitting distance of Titanic's record, a hurdle it should clear sometime around Wednesday. The moment it does, 600.8 million blue balloons will float down gently from the sky, and God will declare it Intergalactic Avatar Day over his celestial P.A. system. Brace yourselves.

2. Edge of Darkness

Gross: $17,120,000 (new)

Screens: 3,066 (PSA: $5,584)

Weeks: 1

Mel Gibson's return to movie stardom yielded what they are calling something on the "high end of pre-release expectations," offering fans something vaguely crimey-looking to tide them over until his far more anticipated comeback playing a man controlled by a malicious beaver.

3. When in Rome

Gross: $12,065,000 (new)

Screens: 2,456 (PSA: $4,912)

Weeks: 1

Earning to expectation, Rome will soon drift off to the place where all movies in which semi-beloved actresses jet off to European locations where local legends lead them to unlikely romances go to die.

4. The Tooth Fairy

Gross: $10,000,000 (cume: $26,106,000)

Screens: 3,344 (PSA: $2,990)

Weeks: 2 (change: -28.6%)

What are the next two words in the series?: Rock, tooth, fairy, ____, _____. (Answer next week.)

5. The Book of Eli

Gross: $8,770,000 (Cume: $74,373,000)

Screens: 3,075 (PSA: $2.852)

Weeks: 3 (Change: -44.3%)

We hereby invite you to savor this moment, as Denzel Washington is smack dab in the middle of the "curious actioner" phase of his career, the last before he enters the "ponderous orator seated behind large wood desk offering stirring commentary on the folly of man"-era that will mark his twilight years.