MUMBAI: Dear John, the romantic drama directed by Lasse Hallström, has taken over James Cameron's Avatar in its seventh week at the US box-office to earn $32.4 million.

Starring Channing Tatum and Amanda Seyfried, the film shows the life of a young woman (Amanda Seyfried) after she falls in love with a soldier (Channing Tatum). They decide to exchange letters to each other after he is deployed to the war.

The movie opens with John Tyree, a young soldier from the Army Special Forces, lying on the ground in his army gear with gunshot wounds. Coins begin to fall over him as he remembers a childhood trip to the U.S. Coin mint. He goes on to state that he is a coin in the United States of America's army, and that the last thing he thought about before he blacked out, was you.