'Avatar' still tops at U.S. box office
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 17 (UPI) -- "Avatar" remained No. 1 at the U.S. box office, raking in an incredible $41.3 million in its fifth straight weekend.
"The Book of Eli" was a respectable No. 2 with more than $31.61 million.
All gross estimated figures are from Box Office Mojo.
"The Lovely Bones" was third with $17.06 million; "Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel" fourth with $11.5 million; "Sherlock Holmes" fifth with more than $9.82 million; "The Spy Next Door" sixth with $9.7 million.
"It's Complicated" was seventh with more than $7.67 million; "Leap Year" eighth with more than $5.82 million; "The Blind Side" ninth with more than $5.56 million.
"Up in the Air" rounded out the top 10 with $5.46 million.
Canada to host benefit concert for Haiti
HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, Jan. 17 (UPI) -- A Brookes Diamond Productions official says a benefit concert in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia will raise funds for earthquake-ravaged Haiti.
Brookes Diamond of Brookes Diamond Productions confirmed he and his wife, Fiona, began planning the Feb. 8 benefit concert in Halifax, Nova Scotia, after seeing news footage on the extent of the devastation in Haiti, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. said Saturday.
"Fiona and I were watching it and saw this complete disaster and right away we just knew -- we have to do something. Went to bed with that feeling and woke up and the feeling was still there and so we got to work on it," Diamond said.
The full list of the performers taking part in the planned Halifax Metro Center concert has yet to be announced.
Tickets for the benefit event are $20 with the Red Cross receiving the majority of the concert's proceeds, Diamond said.
The CBC said the Haitian government estimated as many as 200,000 people may have been killed in the 7.0-magnitude quake.
Representative nixes Cyrus marriage rumors
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 17 (UPI) -- A representative for Miley Cyrus says the U.S. singer-actress is not engaged to her Australian boyfriend despite rumors to the contrary.
The Cyrus representative, whose identity was not released, confirmed the 17-year-old "Hannah Montana" star is not engaged to her boyfriend, "Last Song" actor Liam Hemsworth, People.com reported Saturday.
"Miley's not engaged," the representative told People magazine.
Rumors of a possible engagement between the two teenage celebrities began after Cyrus was seen wearing a ring on her left hand while out in Los Angeles on Thursday, People.com said.
Cyrus is scheduled to begin filming the final season of "Montana" on Monday. The Disney Channel series plans on concluding after its fourth and final season.
Wrestler Hogan lauds would-be senator
HARTFORD, Conn., Jan. 17 (UPI) -- Professional wrestler Hulk Hogan said U.S. Senate candidate Linda McMahon is a "gracious" woman devoted to helping her community.
The Hartford (Conn.) Courant said Saturday that Hogan, 56, had many kinds word for McMahon, wife of World Wrestling Entertainment chairman Vince McMahon, well ahead of her planned 2010 run for a Connecticut seat in the U.S. Senate.
"She's brilliant. She's a very gracious, very smart lady, and her intent and her agenda has always been to help the community and be plugged in and be involved,'' Hogan said of the Republican official. "Inside or outside that wrestling world that the McMahons have created, Linda McMahon is a great person."
Hogan, who earned fame with the World Wrestling Federation, had less flattering words for Vince McMahon and World Wrestling Entertainment.
"My philosophy is different than the WWE model where Vince McMahon will ride someone until they drop. He will shoot them and eat them," Hogan told the Courant. "A transition must be made between new stars and the old.''
