''AVATAR'' GETS ''DEAR JOHN'' LETTER! Love Story Drops Technopic Out Of #1; $32M Breaks Record For Super Bowl Wkd

''AVATAR'' GETS ''DEAR JOHN'' LETTER! Love Story Drops Technopic Out Of #1; $32M Breaks Record For Super Bowl Wkd<br>SUNDAY AM UPDATE: So Avatar was done in by a chick flick no less! Despite the monster winter storm on the East Coast, Relativity's sappy military-themed love story Dear John opened to a much bigger than expected $13.8 million Friday and $12.4M Saturday (down only -10%) from 2,969 North American theaters. Which means the pic based on the Nicholas Sparks novel and distributed by Sony/Screen Gems, has broken Avatar's 7-week reign atop the domestic box office despite higher 3D ticket prices. G.I. Joe's Channing Tatum and Mamma Mia!'s Amanda Seyfried scored a $32M weekend compared to Avatar's expected $22M. "It's not only the dragon slayer, but by a lot," one Sony exec gushed to [...]<br><a href=http://www.deadline.com/hollywood/will-avatar-get-a-dear-john-letter-is-this-the-weekend-technopic-falls-to-2/> click here to read more </a><br> [tags ''AVATAR'',GETS,''DEAR,JOHN'',LETTER!,Love,Story,Drops,Technopic,Out,Of,#1;,$32M,Breaks,Record,For,Super,Bowl,Wkd]