george lewis explains. >> you might say it's been a transformative year for hollywood.ovie like "transformers" took in $402 million at the domestic box office. and the current hit, "avatar" is headed for the $300 million mark dmeft yeckly after ally little more than two weeks in the theaters. >> it's been an incredible year at the box office in 2009. >> enjoy. >> we're going to wind up with about $10.6 billion in revenue and the highest attendance in five years. >> what about 2010? people in the movie game are trying to figure out how to top 2009's box office numbers. a hard act to follow. >> we got to hope. we're throughout every week just hoping we think the out of the park. >> and the formula for hitting it out of the park is sequels. 2010 will bring the second "ironman" movie. >> sometimes you just have to get away with the girl. >> carrie and her friends are back for ient stallment of "sex in the city." and the "harry potter" franchise will take moviegoers to hog warts for the seventh time. the secret is sequels sell. >> audiences love the familiar and they love to

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for "today," george lewis, nbc news, los angeles. >>> so will tiger and elin stay together? with more insight on that, bernie hazlit who writes the scoop column on msnbc joins us. we heard in george's spot, a lot of speculation and sources indicate it looks like their marriage is over. but over the weekend, people.com had a picture of her where she was spotted wearing her wedding ring. is there any indication from your sources that there is some sort of reconciliation in the works? >> there's absolutely indication from my sources that there's a reconciliation that's at least being attempted. to say that's in the works, that might be overstating it slightly. to note there's been a lot of improvement on the state of their marriage. i'm told things are still very, very dicey. now with elin being spotted photographed, wearing her wedding ring, listen, this couple, you have to remember, was, they were masters at staying oust of the spotlight when they wanted. they were masters of their own public it up to the point where they lost control of it. they got that control back. that's

nbc's george lewis looks at the heights of the box office -- the heights that the box office climbed and what moviegoers can expect this year. >> reporter: you might say it's been a transformative year for hollywood when a movie like "transformers, revenge of the fallen" took in $202 million at the domestic box office. >> i fell in love. >> reporter: and the current hit "avatar" is headed for the $300 million mark domestically after a little more than two weeks in theaters. >> it's been an incredible year at the box office in 2009. we're going to wind up with about $10.6 billion in revenue and the highest attendance in five years. >> reporter: so what about 2010? people in the movie game are trying to figure out how to top 2009's box office numbers. a hard act to follow. >> we got to hope. we're out there every week just hoping we hit it out of the park. >> reporter: and the formula for hitting it out of the park is sequels. 2010 will bring the second "ironman" movie. >> sometimes you just have to get away with the girls. >> reporter: carrie and her friends are back for another insta

verne ehlers, and david price, as well as education and labor committee chairman george miller, representative john lewis, and numerous other colleagues. it was in 1994 that congress designated the martin luther king jr. federal holiday as a national day of service in recognition of dr. king's selfless and courageous service to his fellow citizens. since then we have seen a growing number of individuals embrace this day as a day on not a day off. in 2009, millions of americans spent the martin luther king jr. day serving in over 13,000 projects all across the country. this year the corporation for national community service is again working with the king center and six other grantees to promote the king day of service. in years past, organizations like the capital area food bank, habitat for humanity, and the boys and girls clubs all benefited from the volunteer efforts of everyday americans. i'm looking forward to again volunteering myself at the christmas advocacy association of york back in my hometown. as january 18 quickly approaches, i encourage my fellow members of congress and constituents to tak

lewis who came from the port-au-prince. he had to go to the dominican republic and then fly out of there because of the clogging of the airports and to george soros who has been all over the world promoting freedom through enterprise and investment. i'm very grateful to him. and there are others here who are involved in haiti. so i thank them, i thank you, the haiti dess success there. if you have any interest in this, even if you don't know some of the answers to some of your question, sign up. i promise you, our office will follow up. thank you very much. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2010] >> former president clinton from earlier today, president obama meanwhile has arrived in florida. he invites president biden there to speak at a town hall meeting talking about the $8 billion in stimulus funds they'll be announcing, grants for 13 major high speed rail corridors. that town hall meeting coming up just after 1:00 p.m. eastern. we'll have live coverage here on c-span. next month marks one year since congress passed the economic stimulus. of that, $787 billion appr