| Film | Weekend | Per Screen | James Cameron | |
| 1 | Avatar | $41,300,000 (-17.9%) | $12,572 | $491,767,000 |
| 2 | The Book of Eli | $31,615,000 | $10,162 | $31,615,000 |
| 3 | The Lovely Bones | $17,060,000 | $6,656 | $17,527,000 |
| 4 | Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel | $11,500,000 (-30.6%) | $3,489 | $192,592,000 |
| 5 | Sherlock Holmes | $9,825,000 (-40.8%) | $3,096 | $180,018,000 |
| 6 | The Spy Next Door | $9,700,000 | $3,317 | $9,700,000 |
| 7 | It’s Complicated | $7,672,000 (-30.3%) | $2,873 | $88,224,000 |
| 8 | Leap Year | $5,828,000 (-36.7%) | $2,320 | $17,529,000 |
| 9 | The Blind Side | $5,565,000 (-26.1%) | $2,311 | $226,774,000 |
| 10 | Up in the Air | $5,460,000 (-23.7%) | $2,591 | $62,833,000 |
This just in: Can you see why I’m so fucking angry?
So, James Cameron. Kind of a genius. He taps into something powerful. Currently the film is at 1.1 Billion international, and that puts it at 1.6 billion all in. Which means that two billion is going to happen. First film to do so. It is now the #3 domestic (still #2 WW), and will likely be passing The Dark Knight‘s $533 Million by the end of next weekend. Next weekend it will also have topped the chart for six weeks in a row. That’s rare, and nothing in the 21st century has done something like that. Unfortunately for record keepers, what it won’t make is seven weeks in a row, cause Edge of Darkness is likely to top the charts in two weeks. Though it could take #1 again by February. It should also be at half a billion by tomorrow. Which only three films have ever done. My mom called me this week to tell me she was going to see it. We major. We major? We major.
The Book of Eli opened well, and could get close to $40 Million by end of Monday. Though the film will likely struggle to do much more or around $100, which is good for the Hughes brothers, who went off the grid for a couple years. This will be their most successful film by a long shot, as it’s already their most successful film. Already, as in by today it will have made more moey than anything else they have ever done. International – as an action film – should be solid, so this is a win for everyone. Not so much for The Lovely Bones. It wasn’t so much a bad weekend, which is good, but there will be no nominations beyond a possible toss to Stanley Tucci, and next week it will surely be off a lot. And make no mistake, cinemascore whatever, there’s a lot of critics who just hate this film, which means there’s going to be some audiences who just hate this film. Maybe the film gets to $50 Million, unless the book fans fall for it, and make their own movie out of it. I went low, but that what I get for seeing the movie.
The Squeakquel will get to $200 Million. For Sherlock it’s still sort of questionable, but by the end of next weekend it’ll be around $190, so at that point, it may just get there. The Spy Next Dud. Speaking of limping, Its Complicated should get close to $100, and over. Nothing’s happening great with Up in the Air. The nominations are there, but after that I don’t know. Probably nothing. I don’t think the film gets to $100, though it’ll be hanging out in the theaters for another month or so . Everything else is there at this point. The Blind Side may get a nomination or two from the Oscars, and might get a win for Bullock, but $250 is probably not in the realm. Depends on the heat. More on Thursday-ish.
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In real life, angels with machine guns and ballistics weapons cut down 10-foot blue people all the time. But not next weekend at the box office. Sadness, slightly-retarded Dennis Quaid. Sadness.
Honestly, I hadn't heard of Edge of Darkness until now. Not sure if it can dethrone Avatar, if not simply due to higher ticket prices for 3D. But yeah, Cameron's the man. And Lovely Bones sucked, yes.
Dear GOD!!! Do I really need to go see AVATAR??? I haven't yet, and I don't want to…but this performance is hard to ignore.
Man, I love to see this kind of success. Especially given the spew which preceded it. I haven't seen sheer cinematic joy written across people's faces – from 10 to 65 – in a long long time. Good on you Jim. You made a wonderful film, a film unlike anything that has ever gone before in terms of the cinematic experience, and you changed the game. Just like you said you would.
Oh, bleat away, haters. But he did. And he did it by dedicating himself to a new paradigm in cinema, inventing not only cameras, rigs and capture tech, but refining the effects pipeline in ways unimaginable 10 years ago.
Devin needs to get on his knees and kiss the King's feet.
So much for "lol this movie will make 200 million combined and destroy and ruin Cameron lolol – Devin"
I hope he learned a lesson by now for the future, cause he has been humbled and destroyed.
Ha!
so did Daybreakers bomb? It's not even in the top ten–didn't that come out last week? I'm not trying to hate on it and say "LOLZZZ IT FAILED", I'm just curious. And holy shit, how was The Blind Side such a hit.
Avatar is nothing special. If you take away it's inflated 3D/Real D/IMAX gross. It's barely generated as much as Transformers 2. It's not that major a moment in history and Cameron had to rip people off to get this record. What a douche he has become.
I guess I'd say that my preferred genres are sci-fi or fantasy (although that's far less true now than ever before) – so why is it I'd prefer Avatar NOT triumph over Titanic at the box office? Probably because I thought it was only pretty good and thus shouldn't appear to be some sort of masterpiece box office wise. But then I'm no huge Titanic fan either so why is it I'd prefer that to remain? It's a strange one that – and surely can't be answered with the statement "cos Kate Winslet got her kit off in that one" can it? Crikey, maybe it can. *sigh* Am I that shallow?
"Avatar is nothing special." It….it kind of is. Sorry. I know you want to hate it so so bad. But it is. In just about every way. "Avatar is nothing special. If you take away it's inflated 3D/Real D/IMAX gross. It's barely generated as much as Transformers 2." Ummm….no. Your desperation to hate is just beautiful to behold but you're spectacularly wrong. Even factoring in and subtracting the 3D premium (which is why the game has changed, and why this IS a defining moment in cinema history) it is at well over a billion worldwide. After 34 days. You were saying? And as for 'what a douche he has become'. Why? For being successful? For making a movie everybody bar a shrill minority loves? Why does that make him a douche?
1. I loved Avatar.
2. I will see it in IMAX again.
3. How long does it take the moderators to approve my registration for the boards?
"Rip people off?" As if there was anything original about Ferngully or Dances with Wolves to begin with. Any stoner with a fairy poster on his wall would have written the same story. How else could it go? I'm betting Legion takes #1 next weekend.
Wow #4, you gonna cry now? Cameron didn't invent anything for Avatar. All that shit already existed – he just pumped a shitload of cash into further development. He was far more innovative on his earlier films. He's just a big money-pile with a camera now.
Cameron is King of the World. Nuff said.
@#9 – You seem to be saying Avatar is so special 'cause Cameron figured out how to inflate ticket prices even more. Excuse me if I don't get to excited by this 'defining moment'.
If you've seen one James Cameron movie you've seen them all. Nothing against Avatar, it was entertaining and I enjoyed it but it follows the same formula he uses in every movie. About 15 minutes in to it you already know how the movie is going to play out.
Personally i feel his style to be too generic and safe. This movie would have done much better if it went darker and ditched the CGI globe trotting blue man group.
Nothing against this flick, i was impressed… Come along way since Nemo and all but i feel somewhat robbed when the whole movie is animated. Definitely geared more towards the 13-21 freaks and geeks crowd.
Well, expect more films to be released in Digital/IMAX 3D after this, though the quality might not be on par with Avatar, which would mean films like Transformer 3.
The only 3D film I'm looking forward to would be Tintin, whenever they finish working on that.
The amazing thing about Avatar's box office is not the numbers themselves (which truthfully are inflated because of 3-D), but the fact that the numbers aren't falling much week after week. Very Titanic-like in its staying power so far.
I liked Avatar, but it's far from great. I don't know if it's "special" but the 3d was very good. The best thing about it is I came out thinking "what if Cameron had made the Star Wars prequels." Not that Avatar was nearly as good as the originals, but the environments and action were worlds better than anything in Ep 1-3.
Avatar is a decent scifi flick and nothing more. How is it a game changer? Gee, is Hollywood now going to focus on CGI-laden blockbusters with average to bad scripts? Because that would clearly be a change of pace for them.
Those of you complaining about inflated ticket prices, like it helps you desparately weak argument that people are paying MORE for their tickets, watch Alice in Wonderland come out in 3D and watch it drop like a stone, because it sucks. Avatar doesn't suck, thus it is doing fucking amazing. quit crying and realize you were so fucking wrong… douches
Avatar does kind of suck. Not a lot but a little. It's childish really. Very naive and silly. Also #20, I guess The Phantom Menace doesn't suck since it made a lot of money.
It's the 3D folks. All bells and whistles. After reading the script which was awesome by the way, I just can't get behind the movie. So much pertinent plot info was cut out. If he had the guts to flip the finger to fox and present his true vision then we would be talking masterpiece, but in the end its just a dopey sci-fi flick with cool effects.
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