Monday Morning Box Office Report: Avatar Overtakes The Dark Knight
Another big milestone for James Cameron’s Avatar was reached this weekend as it passed The Dark Knight to move into the #2 position on the all-time domestic box office list. It also blew past Titanic to become the most successful international movie ever with $1.28 billion. There is now only one record left, and that is to beat Titanic for biggest all-time domestic box office. Based on current projections that could happen sometime next month. Elsewhere, Legion had a decent opening weekend, earning $18 million and just barely edging out The Book of Eli for second place. The Tooth Fairy and The Lovely Bones rounded out the Top 5. Extraordinary Measures didn’t fare so well, earning just $7 million despite the draw of two big name stars. Avatar sure doesn’t have much in the way of serious competition, and it shows no signs of stopping anytime soon.
1. Avatar — $36M
2. Legion — $18.2M
3. The Book of Eli — $17M
4. Tooth Fairy — $14.5M
5. The Lovely Bones — $8.8M
6. Sherlock Holmes — $7.12M
7. Extraordinary Measures — $7M
8. Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel — $6.5M
9. It’s Complicated — $6.19M
10. The Spy Next Door — $4.75M
Comments (9)
I saw this film four times without even liking it that much.
2billion$$$ and its not even out on DVD yet..
its Crazy..
ps..
GREG was WRONG
Posted by KYriakos on January 25th, 2010hahaha
WPsE – Worst Photoshop Ever
I got a friend at USC Film School spreading my theory Cameron is a modern P.T. Barnum (showman) “Giving the world what it didn’t know it wanted” I will not rest until it is a story on CNN.
Posted by rus in chicago on January 25th, 2010My guess is James Cameron uses subliminal messages in his promotions and advertisements to make people see his movies. I’m sorry, but something’s fishy. Avatar and Titanic are films that are not THAT amazing. They’re not. I’m on to you Jim.
Posted by ShenEvil44 on January 25th, 2010Maybe he uses waldo.
I saw Avatar first day it came on theaters and the room was practically empty.
Posted by KYriakos on January 25th, 2010I re-watched it few days ago and it was sold out.
So maybe its subliminal messages from mouth to mouth advertisement?
after all..
.. a happy customer is a good customer.
Oh snap, looks like Reed was right about Avatar’s total Box Office overtaking Titanic and Sean was wrong, hehe.
Legion, although early in the year, is one of the worst films of the year. Terribly paced with some bad dialogue exchanges between all the characters. You could tell it was made by some 1st time director or someone who doesn’t know how to direct a film. Way too many shots of this guy showing how happy he is using a 35mm camcorder and back focusing like a motherfucker and saying “look how cool the bokeh is here.” What sucks is that this seems to be planned as a trilogy with the sequel in production.
Posted by Primal on January 25th, 2010Wait, was wrong on it being a trilogy. Looks like a whole different premise on the next film paul bettany is working on. But yeah, I hope there isn’t one even though the ending assumes so.
Posted by Primal on January 25th, 2010Grats Jay on making the list of 50 Best Blogs for MovieMakers with The Documentary Blog on MovieMaker Magazine. Why FilmJunk isn’t on the list pisses me off though.
Not sure how prestigious MovieMaker Magazine is, but still, awesome to see you get props for it. Maybe you guys should self-aggrandize yourselves in the intro of the podcast or something like some other podcasts do, jk.
Posted by Primal on January 25th, 2010I’d hate to be directing a 2D-blockbuster in Hollywood right now.
This is pretty impressive, I definitely did not see this coming. Amazing.
Posted by Henrik on January 25th, 2010Avatar was easily the greatest movie since Star Wars.
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