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After months of breathless buzz, speculation, and doubt, James Cameron's "Avatar" finally arrived in movie theaters nationwide, and its box office prognosis definitely isn't blue.

Director of first two movies in franchise returns to help develop prequel depicting the teenage lives of the mutants.

"Avatar" rang up $3.5 million in domestic boxoffice from 12:01 a.m. Friday performances.

If there isn't significant attendance loss, then Hollywood is now estimating this pre-Xmas 3-day weekend's opening grosses at $80M -- or $27M for Friday including the midnight shows, then $30M on Saturday, and $23M on Sunday when most colleges and high schools are out Monday.

IESB has been visiting the set of 20th Century Fox' PREDATORS today in Austin, Texas where it was revealed to us that veteran actor Laurence Fishburne had been added to the cast of the film, most likely because he was on set today as well and none of us knew he was in the film. Fishburne will play the character called Noland and will appear as an uncredited cameo role in the Robert Rodriguez produced film.

The trailer for the summer 2010 sequel to "Iron Man" is out. "Iron Man 2" reunites Robert Downey Jr as Tony Stark with Gwyneth Paltrow as Pepper Potts. The film also adds Scarlett Johansson and Mickey Rourke and swaps in Don Cheadle for Terrence Howard. Like the first it is directed by Jon Favreau.

The movie is out May 7.

Entertainment Tonight , in their usual let's cut up everything and "we're number one" style, has aired the first footage from Iron Man 2 in a promo for Wednesday's show that you can watch using the player below. Stay tuned to the program on Wednesday for possibly more footage.

ComingSoon has the trailer for Russell Crowe and Ridley Scott's ROBIN HOOD film. And, not surprisingly, it looks like what you'd expect from a Robin Hood movie by Ridley Scott and Russell Crowe.

Frank Miller has spilled the beans on the 300 prequel, revealing the title and some important plot information. But what's it going to be called?

Paramount Pictures debuted a brand new teaser poster featuring Oscar nominee Mickey Rourke as Whiplash, the villain in "Iron Man 2."