Below are the top 12 weekend final numbers from the North American box office:

1. Avatar - $34,944,081
2. Legion - $17,501,625
3. The Book Of Eli - $15,732,493
4. The Tooth Fairy - $14,010,409
5. The Lovely Bones - $8,418,192
6. Sherlock Holmes - $6,628,069
7. Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel - $6,403,504
8. Extraordinary Measures - $6,012,594
9. It's Complicated - $5,810,025
10. The Spy Next Door - $4,584,524
11. The Blind Side - $4,166,136
12. Up In The Air - $3,902,190

Overall, the US Box Office was down 18.4% on last weekend's gross.

One might say things are getting a little repetitive. With that thought in mind it should come as no surprise that James Cameron's unstoppable sci-fi opus AVATAR is at the top of the box office again for the sixth straight weekend in a row. The film only dropped 18% on last weekend's gross. It took out the record for the biggest sixth weekend, passed THE DARK KNIGHT's domestic gross with $551 million sitting in the bank, and is about $5 million away from taking out the top spot on the worldwide box office rankings away from TITANIC. The film has earned a mammoth $1.838 billion worldwide, and talk of it becoming the first $2 billion film are not without merit.

Again, lying in the wake of the 3D film at the top of the box office are a couple of new films that probably did better than expected. LEGION opened with $17.5 million against a $26 million budget which would have to be considered a winner. The dismal looking THE TOOTH FAIRY somehow managed $14 million, but it cost $48 million. The big loser was EXTRAORDINARY MEASURES which despite starring Harrison Ford and Brendan Fraser, looked like a made-for-DVD release and the box office reflected this with a scant $6 million in takings.

Of the returning films, THE BOOK OF ELI fared best, taking in another $15.7 million to take its domestic tally to $60.7 million. The film cost $80 million so this is looking to be an eventual winner. THE LOVELY BONES managed another $8.4 million despite a lukewarm reception. Things do not bode well for the Peter Jackson film which was budgeted at $65 million but has only earned $31.2 million so far. SHERLOCK HOLMES is finally ahead of those pesky chipmunks, earning another $6.6 million to edge closer to $200 million domestically.