Romance proved to be a powerful foe for the epic “Avatar,” which has dominated the box office for the last seven weekends. The Lasse Hallstrom-directed romantic drama “Dear John” won the weekend in a big way, grossing an estimated $32.4 million and setting a record for the highest-grossing Superbowl Sunday frame in history.

“Avatar” fell to second place for the first time, dropping a still scant 25 percent to $23.6 million. The James Cameron film has now out-grossed every movie in the history of cinema (as long as we don’t adjust for inflation) with a domestic take of an astounding $630 million.

The other wide release, “From Paris With Love,” didn’t have nearly as an auspicious debut. The R-rated actioner from “Taken” director Pierre Morel mostly drew audiences interested in John Travolta’s turn as an over-the-top, gun-toting renegade CIA operative, yet earned only an estimated $8.1 million.

Much of “Dear John’s” success can be attributed to a successful marketing campaign targeted towards women, who comprised 84 percent of the audience. The movie, which was based on Nicholas Sparks’ novel, was financed entirely by Relativity Media, and distributed by Sony’s Screen Gems division. It bested the previous record held by 2008’s concert film “Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds” which opened to $31.1 million.

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Amanda is like a robot she always keeps going and going. After all this promoting for ‘Dear John’ I hope she gets some rest and relaxes before her ‘Chloe’ promoting.

Out in New York – 02/06

PIX 11 Morning Show (Backstage) – 02/04

The ‘Late Show with David Letterman’ in NY – 02/04

Heading to the Apple store in SoHo – 02/04

Personal Pictures

Grabbing coffee at ‘Think Coffee’ with a friend in New York – 02/06

Four episodes into the series’ fourth season, the cable network has renewed the Playtone-produced show for a fifth season.

Big Love which centers on Utah native Bill Henrickson (Bill Paxton) as he balances the needs of his three wives (Jeanne Tripplehorn, Chloe Sevigny, Ginnifer Goodwin) and their broods, drew 1.7 million viewers for its season premiere last month. That was up 49% from Season 3’s opener.

Despite facing the NFC Championship and the Grammys the past two Sundays, the modestly rated series is tracking 13% higher than last season.

“Love,” whose current story line centers on Henrickson running for office, will be getting “deeper and darker” in the second half of the season, according to creators Mark V. Olsen and Will Scheffer.

With four eventful seasons, the fifth cycle will take a breather, “settling into the stortytelling,” Olsen said. Added Scheffer, “We want to take the temperature of the marriages.”

With the exception of the departing Amanda Seyfried, the series’ core cast will come back for Season 5, with Olsen and Scheffer also mulling a possible return for new additions Zeljko Ivanek and Sissy Spacek.

“Love,” which earned its first best series Emmy nomination last year, is executive produced by Tom Hanks, Gary Goetzman, David Knoller, Bernadette Caulfield, Olsen and Scheffer. (THR)

Behind the cut is my review of the film that I was able to see early this morning.

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I found a new video on youtube with new scenes from ‘Dear John’ whom ever is going to see it at midnight/tomorrow bring a lot of tissues because you will shed tears.

Amanda is looking very beautiful in her dress-down cloths yesterday when she was spotted by the paparazzi at LAX airport. This woman is ALWAYS looks so happy, what’s the secret?

Continuing her promotional duties, Amanda Seyfried was spotted out and about in New York City earlier today (February 4).

The “Big Love” babe looked bright-eyed and bushy-tailed as she departed the PIX 11 Morning Show at CW studios in Manhattan.

Amanda has been promoting her new movie “Dear John,” out in theaters tomorrow, in which she plays a southern belle.

She explained, “My character is Savannah and she is a Charleston girl who is on her spring break, and she meets John in the surf.”

Her costar Channing Tatum added, “[I play] a soldier who is on leave for two weeks and meets the girl of his dreams, and has to leave and they have to try to keep their love alive, which does or does not happen.”

As the movie is getting close to promoting there has been new ‘Chloe’ stills surfacing almost every day. I’ve added 23 brand new images you can view in our gallery.

Also, Holly our other owner whom is amazing has a friend who works in a movie theatre and says that ‘Chloe’ will start promoting in about 2 weeks so stay tuned for news, images, interviews, etc.

Amanda Seyfried has revealed that filming her sex scene with Channing Tatum in Dear John was not, as the French say, le comfortable.

“It was freezing and I was nervous and it was so technical. Lasse Hallstrom, the director, said he wanted it to be ‘groundbreaking’,” said the Mamma Mia! actress. “Channing and I were like, ‘What do you mean?’.

“And Lasse said, ‘You know, like you wouldn’t believe it’. If you ever got to watch a love scene being filmed you would have a great time because it’s hysterical,” said the 24-year-old.” There’s nothing sexy about it, but they make it look quite sexy in the editing room.”

Seyfried plays Savannah Curtis, a “buttoned up conservative” gal who falls for Channing Tatum’s John Tyre, a soldier who is on leave.

“My 13-year-old self would be screaming right now if she saw me kissing Channing,” Seyfried said. “When I was a teenager, I was dreaming about Justin Timberlake or Leonardo DiCaprio, who Channing has replaced as one of the sexiest men in movies.

“I’m sure a lot of girls are probably really jealous of me. It’s crazy. Being an actor is weird sometimes because you get used to making out with all these different people.”

That’s not the only love makin’ going on for the actress. Seyfried ups the ante in her upcoming film Chloe with Julianne Moore. She plays an escort girl who is hired by a wife, played by Moore, 49, to seduce her husband, played by Liam Neeson, who she suspects is cheating on her. Seyfried does ye olde lesbian kiss with Moore and shows off her naughty bits.