Heirs to the box-office throne.
The LA Times has good news for us: this weekend, "Dear John" could knock "Avatar" from its number one spot on the top of the box office charts! If not, "Valentine's Day" the weekend after will certainly do the trick. As an afterthought, they note that "If it is indeed the movie that pushes 'Avatar' out of first place, 'Valentine's Day' will be the second straight New Line film to unseat a Cameron-directed smash -- 12 years ago, 'Titanic' was finally dethroned by New Line's 'Lost in Space.' " This made me laugh. It has to be as useless a piece of seemingly significant trivia as all that NBA crap about two-game slumps and records in home stadiums against opposing teams going back to 1996 or whatever. Also, no one actually remembers "Lost In Space"; it was a big old flop most people didn't see, a punchline from the moment...
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