This President’s Day weekend (as well as the Valentine’s Day break) was the highest-grossing on record, people spending an estimated $238 million at the movies. Leading the pack was Garry Marshall’s Valentine’s Day, opening with $66.9 million over the four-day vacation. Promising a star-studded fiasco of celebrities such as Julia Roberts and Ashton Kutcher, it’s really no wonder the pic did so well. It also benefitted from Sunday being Valentine’s Day, couples in the mood for a good romancer. Critics weren’t, though. The interchanging love story earned itself a rotten 16% score on poll site Rotten Tomatoes. Could Valentine’s Day stay on top next weekend? I doubt it. Holiday-themed flicks like this usually start with a bang and broodingly end quickly.

Next up at #2 was Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief, the first of a five-part series of children’s fantasy novels. Chris Columbus’s two-hour action/adventure about a boy who discovers his father is Poseidon raked in $38.8 million. Impressive, but due to poor reviews (49% on Rotten Tomatoes) I don’t think David Yates and the Harry Potter franchise have too much to worry about.

Joe Johnston’s awaited The Wolfman began with $36.5 million over the duel holiday weekend. Johnston has had trouble with his horror reboot about a man in Victorian England who finds himself transforming into a strange beast under moonlight after being bitten by a werewolf, having The Wolfman’s release date pushed back several times. It looks like we may be seeing a bit more of Benicio del Toro and Emily Blunt in the box office in the coming weeks, as I believe this out of the other two debuts this past weekend has the strongest staying power. James Cameron’s sci-fi epic Avatar continues to do amazingly well, grossing $30 million over these past four days with a grand cume of well over $600 million domestic and over $2 billion worldwide.

Dear John rounds us out with an estimated $18.8 million in fifth place. Another film that profited from Valentine’s Day crowds, but still dropping four spots from last weekend.

Out of the top five-

• Post 9/11 drama My Name is Khan opened with $1.9 million on 120 screens.
• Grisly documentary October Country debuted with $7,000 on one screen.

Here are the box office results according to studio estimates Sunday-

1. Valentine’s Day…$66.9 million
2. Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief…$38.8 million
3. The Wolfman…$36.5 million
4. Avatar…$30 million
5. Dear John…$18.8 million
6. Tooth Fairy…7.7 million
7. From Paris With Love…$6.8 million
8. Edge of Darkness…$5.7 million
9. Crazy Heart…$5 million
10. When in Rome…$4.2 million