I don’t exactly hate the dead zone between Christmas Eve and New Year’s Day. I get to catch up on the sleep I was denied during the first three weeks of December, and be social, and generally take it easy. It’s nice, really.

The rest of the planet uses it as an excuse to go to the movies, which is how “Avatar” could gross an additional $75 million in its second weekend.

In other news, “Sherlock Holmes” made a pretty impressive debut in second place with $65.4 million. I guess Robert Downey, Jr. can open anything nowadays. Maybe Warner should roll “Kiss Kiss Bang Bang” back into theatres so it can finally be the hit it should have been all along …