On this day – January 1, also known as New Year’s Day, in Movie History, Avatar would continue to stun box office observers four years ago. Entering its third weekend of release, the James Cameron sci-fi epic would dip only 9% from weekend two and take in $68.5 million for the New Year’s weekend. In just three weeks, the film had grossed an astonishing $352 million and it was in weekend #3 that the possibility of it becoming the highest domestic grosser of all time started to seem real. It would end up getting there with a total domestic gross of $760 million and that meant Cameron beat his own record (Titanic previously held the record for 12 years before Avatar came along).
As for New Year’s babies, Morris Chestnut is 44 today. He broke out in the film scene with his role in 1991’s Boyz N The Hood and just recently appeared in the hit sequel The Best Man Holiday. Other notable roles: The Inkwell, Under Siege 2: Dark Territory, Two Can Play That Game, Think Like a Man, and Identity Thief.
Frank Langella is 75 today. Mr. Langella has appeared in many features over the past several decades. He received an Oscar nomination as the President in Ron Howard’s Frost/Nixon. Other notable roles: Diary of a Mad Housewife, The Twelve Chairs, 1979’s Dracula, Dave, Superman Returns, Good Night and Good Luck, and Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps.
As for Six Degrees of Separation between the two:
Morris Chestnut was in Boyz N The Hood with Laurence Fishburne
Laurence Fishburne was in Bad Company with Frank Langella
And that’s today – January 1 – in Movie History!
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I’m loving these Todd. I remember seeing Avatar in IMAX 3D with my son (J), his first IMAX movie, and he was trying to grab anything that ‘flew’ by him. I know the film has gotten a bad wrap over the years, but I still admit to loving it when I saw it. I’ll also admit to being anxious to see the upcoming sequels.
You forgot Eddie under Frank Langella’s career hits..haha. I’m pretty sure he was in a relationship with Whoopi Goldberg at the time too.
Keep up the great work with these!