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New Delhi: The second animated film of Hollywood Director James Cameron's 3D science fiction epic Avatar record earning weekend ever. US Box offices took in nearly $300 million in North America over the Christmas weekend, initial studio estimates showed. Avatar earned $75 million in its second weekend, after breaking the US record for December releases in its opening. Since opening 10 days ago, the much-hyped Avatar has brought in $212.3 million in the US and Canada and $467.9 million worldwide. British director Guy Ritchie's unorthodox take on detective "Sherlock Holmes" earned $65.4 million in second place. While animated sequel "Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel" landed at third place with $50.2 million. 

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Avatar is a 2009 American science fiction film written and directed by James Cameron, and starring Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldaña, Sigourney Weaver and Stephen Lang. The film is set in the year 2154 on Pandora, a fictional inhabited Earth-like moon in a distant planetary system. Humans are engaged in mining Pandora's reserves of a precious mineral, while the Navi, the sapient race of humanoids indigenous to the moon, resist the colonists' expansion, which threatens the continued existence of the Navi and the Pandoran ecosystem. The film's title refers to the remotely controlled, genetically engineered human-Na'vi bodies used by the film's human characters to interact with the natives