Avatar continues to rule Box Office both in North America and worldwide. Early reports indicate that Avatar will top the US Box Office for the third straight weekend making $68.3 million, a record for a film in its third weekend of release.
Avatar has now made $352.1 million in North America. If you add the rest of the world gross of 666.7 million $476 million (before new years weekend) you get a total of $828 $1.018 billion. If the rest of the world gross continues to be strong we should expect a total of around $590 million after the new years weekend, that means a total of $941 million worldwide.
Avatar is making a lot of money in other words, lets compare it to the current worldwide record holders at the moment:
| 1 | Titanic | $1,842.9 | ||||||
| 2 | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | $1,119.1 | ||||||
| 3 | Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest | $1,066.2 | ||||||
| 4 | Avatar | $1,018.8 | ||||||
| 5 | The Dark Knight | $1,001.9 | ||||||
| 6 | Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone | $974.7 | ||||||
| 7 | Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End | $961.0 | ||||||
| 8 | Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix | $938.2 | ||||||
| 9 | Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince | $929.4 | ||||||
| 10 | The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers | $925.3 |
Avatar is now at no. 4 should be no. 7 or 8 worldwide after the new years weekend, and Avatar has only been out for 17 days.
There is no question that Avatar will pass the $1 billion mark, only the fifth movie to do so in history. There is also by now little doubt that it will pass “Lord of the rings: Return of the King” that is currently at 2:nd place on the worldwide list. The only question really, is if Avatar could give another James Cameron movie a run for it’s money, Titanic.
James Cameron is soon to be the only director with two $1+ billion movies.
Loading ...Avatar crushed its rivals at the New Year holiday weekend box office in North America and was poised to challenge “The Dark Knight” as the second-biggest movie ever, according to data released on Sunday.
James Cameron’s 3-D sci-fi epic earned $68.3 million in the three days beginning Friday, setting a record for a film in its third weekend of release, distributor 20th Century Fox said. The old mark of $45 million was set by “Spider-Man” in 2002.
After 17 days in cinemas across the United States and Canada, “Avatar” has earned $352.1 million, placing it at No. 15 among all movies in terms of ticket sales. Fox, a unit of News Corp, forecast the film would end up in the $500 million range.
Cameron’s 1997 drama “Titanic,” the biggest film of all time before accounting for inflation, earned $601 million, followed by 2008’s “The Dark Knight” with $533 million. “Star Wars” currently holds the No. 3 berth with $461 million.
“This is like a freight train out of control,” said Fox distribution executive Bert Livingston. “It just keeps on going.”
Even “Titanic” could be threatened. When ticket-price inflation is included, that film had earned $241 million after 17 days, according to tracking firm Box Office Mojo.
Ource: Reuters
