This thread is dedicated for one of the best movies of all time, Avatar.
"Avatar" is on track for a domestic weekend opening of about $80 million, but snowstorms predicted for the northeast and mid-Atlantic tomorrow could put a big crimp in its performance.
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Indore Barometer Avatar v 2012
ReplyDeleteAvatar opened extremely well at Indore multiplexes. In comparison to 2012, the collections at the high end PVR multiplex were better but other multiplexes gave better collections to 2012. Below are the first day figures for Avatar and 2012.
PVR
Avatar - 1,35,910
2012 - 1,05,815
Inox Sapna
Avatar - 79,200
2012 - 93,260
Big (Adlabs)
Avatar - 1,02,860
2012 - 1,38,870
Velocity
Avatar - 76,635
2012 - 1,14,060
Inox City
Avatar - 64,465
2012 - 98,530
Totals
Avatar - 4,59,070
2012 - 5,50,535
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'Avatar' earns $73 million in opening
ReplyDeleteJames Cameron's "Avatar," a 3D extravaganza hyped as a giant leap in cinematic prowess, earned an estimated $73 million during its first weekend at the North American boxoffice, distributor 20th Century Fox said Sunday.
The opening for the costly sci-fi film fell short of industry forecasts in the $85 million range. But the News Corp. unit said the tally beat its internal projections and noted that an enormous snowstorm along the East Coast crippled business for all movies.
The weekend haul ranks as merely the sixth-biggest of the year in the United States and Canada. The 2009 record was set last month by "The Twilight Saga: New Moon," with $143 million. The all-time record of $158 million was set last year by "The Dark Knight."
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Sci-fi epic Avatar has topped the North American box office, taking $73m (£45.3m) on its opening weekend.
ReplyDeleteJames Cameron's much-hyped 3D film also took an estimated $232.2m (£144.1m) worldwide - the ninth biggest opening to date, 20th Century Fox said.
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Now this is getting better and better, go Avatar.
The real story
ReplyDeleteAs the increasingly risk-averse studios focus even more on the safe bets of franchises and adaptations designed to complement their corporate parents' quarterly results, original screenplays on a grand scale are becoming scarcer. So Avatar's ability to mix it up with the big boys such as Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Transformers 2 and Twilight deserves praise. The $73m weekend haul ranks as the 31st biggest debut in Hollywood history, but the amazing fact here is that every one of the 30 movies that rank above it is either a sequel or based on a pre-existing property (even The Passion of the Christ in 22nd place was an interpretation of pre-existing material). Admittedly, it took a film-maker of James Cameron's colossal reputation and influence and a studio like Fox to pull this off, but Avatar still gets points for originality. Now the question is, will they turn it into a franchise …
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