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While Jeff Bridges and Sandra Bullock's chances for Academy Award gold were advanced with their trophies at the Screen Actors Guild Awards, the blockbuster "Avatar" may have felt a touch blue....

The horror tale "The Final Destination" debuted as the No. 1 movie with $28.3 million, taking over the top spot from Quentin Tarantino and Brad Pitt's World War II saga "Inglourious Basterds," which slipped to second place with $20 million.

Brad Pitt and Quentin Tarantino have landed their history lesson on World War II at the top of the box office. Their war epic "Inglourious Basterds" took in $37.6 million over its first weekend to continue a late-summer revenue boost for Hollywood.

If the Weinstein Co. is chilling any champagne for the opening of Quentin Tarantino's latest film, it's okay to pop it now. "Inglourious Basterds" made a killing Friday, reaping an estimated $14.3 million from 3,165 theaters to easily score Tarantino's best opening day ever at the domestic box office.

This week at the movies, we've got Nazi killers (Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds, starring Brad Pitt), a magic rock (Shorts, starring William H. Macy and Leslie Mann), unemployment blues (Post Grad, starring Alexis Bledel and Michael Keaton), and extreme sports (X Games 3D: The Movie. After less than auspicious buzz followed the Cannes premiere of Basterds, it has managed to march its way to Certified Fresh status, but Shorts, Post Grad, and X-Games 3D: The Movie, haven't been quite as lucky.

The new trailer for Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds, which aired on Spike, is now online and can be watched here!

After delivering what Variety's Anne Thompson termed a "dripping-wet print" of "Inglourious Basterds" to Cannes, Quentin Tarantino now plans some last-minute tweaks to his final cut before it reaches theaters on August 21.

Last night, on Fox's "American Idol," Quentin Tarantino made a special guest mentor appearance and debuted a sneak preview of never-seen-before footage from his upcoming movie, Inglourious Basterds . Below you can watch the entire clip that was "too hot to air on primetime TV" during "American Idol."

The guys over at Empire alerted us that they have premiered three posters for Quentin Tarantino's latest WWII film "Inglourious Basterds" starring Brad Pitt Eli, Roth, BJ Novak, Mike Myers and Michael Fassbender.