'Dear John' dethrones box appointment baron 'Avatar'

LOS ANGELES – Romantic tearjerker "Dear John" overcame belittling reviews to end "Avatar's" seven-week administration at the top of the North American box appointment this weekend, estimated abstracts showed Sunday.

The film, an adjustment of the Nicholas Sparks atypical about a soldier who avalanche in adulation with a academy student, stormed to an absorbing 32.4 actor dollars on its debut, box appointment tracker Exhibitor Relations said.

The movie, starring Channing Tatum and Amanda Seyfried, has accustomed abundantly abrogating reviews but accepted too able for science-fiction ballsy "Avatar," the highest-grossing blur in history with added than two billion dollars worldwide.

James Cameron's film, which aftermost anniversary biconcave nine nominations for abutting month's Oscars, becoming addition 23.6 actor dollars to add to its record-breaking haul.

Action blur "From Paris With Love," starring John Travolta and Jonathan Rhys Meyers, opened in third atom with a black 8.1 actor dollars.

In fourth atom was animus thriller, "Edge of Darkness", featuring Mel Gibson in his aboriginal above awning role back 2002.

The blur about a apathetic Boston cop hunting his daughter's killers becoming seven actor dollars in its additional weekend.

Dwayne Johnson ball "The Tooth Fairy," fell to fifth abode in its additional anniversary of showing, with 6.5 actor dollars in box appointment receipts, with 34.3 actor dollars in total.

Romantic ball "When in Rome," starring Kristen Bell as a New Yorker gluttonous adulation in the Eternal City was sixth with 5.5 actor dollars.

Denzel Washington's "Book of Eli," an activity cine set in a post-apocalyptic apple took in 4.8 actor dollars for seventh abode and 82.2 actor for it's four-week run.

In eighth atom was "Crazy Heart" the low account ball about a done up country accompanist disturbing to clean his career starring Jeff Bridges in the Oscar-nominated advance role. Bridges is admired as the allowance on admired to beat his aboriginal Academy Award for the performance. "Crazy Heart" becoming 3.6 actor dollars.

In ninth atom was addition post-apocalyptic abstruseness "Legion," with 3.4 actor dollars while the top 10 was angled out by "Sherlock Holmes" with 2.6 actor dollars.

The high-octane booty on the adventures of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's allegorical London detective, played by Robert Downey Junior, has taken 201.6 actor dollars in seven weeks.