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While James Cameron’s “Avatar” managed to break most of the meaningful records that were held by his 1997 box office smash “Titanic”, the film failed to approach its long-running threshold atop the box office. “Avatar” was effectively dethroned by a film that had a production budget of just $25 million over this past weekend, which snapped its impressive seven weekend streak as the number one film at the box office.

According to MTV.com, romantic comedy “Dear John” starring Amanda Seyfried and Channing Tatum grossed $32.4 million over the weekend to claim to the top spot while Cameron’s “Avatar” fell to second place with $23.6 million in its eighth weekend at the box office. “Dear John” was not expected to have nearly this much success in its opening weekend since Screen Gems announced that they had been hoping for approximately a $20 million intake.

“Titanic” managed to cling to the top spot at box offices for a mind-blowing 17 consecutive weekends but the overall box office results for “Avatar” have still been nothing short of astonishing in comparison. After “Dear John” and “Avatar”, no other film generated over $10 million this past weekend. “From Paris With Love” and “Edge of Darkness” generated $8.1 million and $7 million respectively in their debut weekends while “Tooth Fairy” rounded out the top five with just $6.5 million.