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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.

This week at the movies, we've got a strange alien world (James Cameron's Avatar, starring Sam Worthington and Zoe Saldana), and a couple on the run (Did You Hear about the Morgans?, starring Hugh Grant and Sarah Jessica Parker). What do the critics have to say? Avatar is one of the most hotly anticipated films in years, for a number of reasons: it marks James Cameron's return to fiction filmmaking after a long layoff; its motion capture techniques were the subject of intense pre-release press; and it's the most expensive movie ever made. And now, the verdict is in: critics...

James Cameron's sci-fi extravaganza "Avatar" is getting its first airing before a mass audience in London.

Hundreds of millions of dollars is a lot to spend on a film featuring a bunch of blue aliens -- but that's exactly what Fox Features has done with new 3D sci-fi "Avatar," which the movie studio says is the most expensive production it has ever made.

Find out everything you want to know about the director's first film since 1997's Titanic.

Take a look at this latest video that aired during last night's Glee.

20th Century Fox has aired a third TV spot for James Cameron's Avatar that includes new footage never seen before. You can watch the TV spot using the player below!

Although the official trailer isn’t supposed to hit the web until tomorrow, Film School Rejects has tracked down a high-quality foreign leak (we think it’s from Thailand, but if you recognize the language let us know in the comments) that they got via

Take a look at the latest viral marketing from James Cameron's film.

James Cameron himself wasn’t happy that the Avatar online trailer preceded the Avatar Day IMAX 3-D screenings on Friday. The reason that happened, according to Fox, is that the trailer went out at the same time as the first 10 AM screenings in New Zealand on the other side of the world. It was a synchronous global release. The Apple site was so overwhelmed with clicks that it crashed at first.