Avatar king of the world now, domestic is in sites

[thedeparted]

James Cameron has conquered the worldwide box office, again.
As of today, 20th Century Fox and Cameron's "Avatar" surpassed previous record holder "Titanic" to become the highest worldwide grosser of all time.

Fox said final figures won't be available until Tuesday, but with weekend numbers for "Avatar" totaling $1.838 billion worldwide, pic's expected $15 million domestic earnings should give the pic enough steam to sail past "Titanic" with a global cume of $1.842 billion.

This latest record comes just after "Avatar" made history over the weekend, grossing $1.29 billion at the international B.O. to tackle "Titanic's" $1.24 billion.

"Titanic" still reigns Stateside with $600.8 million, but as "Avatar" maintains a heady lead over its competition -- pic fell only 16% in its sixth frame -- holdover should continue to close the gap, having already earned $551.7 million as of yesterday.






When variety's article head of " Avatar is king of the world" all I could think of was in the movie Juice when they are at Steel's house watching that movie and he says " look ma I'm top of the world"

[LiNuX]

Wow...and I haven't even seen the movie yet. Congrats to them though, can't say I'm surprised though with the steam they had coming in. Wonder if it will get to $2 bil.

[jango]

Wow...and I haven't even seen the movie yet. Congrats to them though, can't say I'm surprised though with the steam they had coming in. Wonder if it will get to $2 bil.

me neither .. yet

my brother-in-law saw it and said he had the raging horn for the big blue bird in it, yet felt slightly wrong about it because she's cgi - i believe he got over that

i checked out the game demo a little while ago and was significantly underwhelmed, so wasn't particularly enthused to go further

[thedeparted]

Wow...and I haven't even seen the movie yet. Congrats to them though, can't say I'm surprised though with the steam they had coming in. Wonder if it will get to $2 bil.

More than likely. I wonder if it's going to break week 7 record. The movie currently owns the record for weeks 2 through 6 records

[LemonRising]

Not surprising, there's so much hype about this movie and people have been going more than once.

Not sure if it deserves THIS much attention but it was a pretty good movie.

[jango]

Not surprising, there's so much hype about this movie and people have been going more than once.

Not sure if it deserves THIS much attention but it was a pretty good movie.

aye .. another reason why i haven't clammered to get to see it

[joshr]

I'm actually about to go see it in 3-d, hopefully it lives up to the hype...

[LemonRising]

Ahh there's another factor.
People claim its AMAZING in 3d but because of my eyes I can't watch them. If I do I get a headache.
>: stupid eyes.

[thedeparted]

Not surprising, there's so much hype about this movie and people have been going more than once.

Not sure if it deserves THIS much attention but it was a pretty good movie.
well it's really a once in awhile type thing. I mean sure The Dark Knight sniffed Titanic's domestic last year but the closest anything has ever come to Titantic worldwide record was LOTR: Return of the King with 1.1 billion. That's a 700 million lead over 2nd for WW that Titantic had and Avatar just reached that in 39 days. The next film to even come close to what this is doing may not happen for 10-15 years. I think that's why this is why it's deserves the attention.

[jango]

..The Dark Knight sniffed Titanic's domestic last year

sounds like something on jerry springer ..

[LemonRising]

well it's really a once in awhile type thing. I mean sure The Dark Knight sniffed Titanic's domestic last year but the closest anything has ever come to Titantic worldwide record was LOTR: Return of the King with 1.1 billion. That's a 700 million lead over 2nd for WW that Titantic had and Avatar just reached that in 39 days. The next film to even come close to what this is doing may not happen for 10-15 years. I think that's why this is why it's deserves the attention.

It is a once in a while thing I just don't know why it was THIS movie.
I'm not sure how it got so much hype. I mean.. it was good.. but was it really THAT good?
I enjoyed watching it and all but I didn't see how it was some amazing breakthrough.

[thedeparted]

It is a once in a while thing I just don't know why it was THIS movie.
I'm not sure how it got so much hype. I mean.. it was good.. but was it really THAT good?
I enjoyed watching it and all but I didn't see how it was some amazing breakthrough.

Oh I see your point now. I really don't know, I really don't understand the hype thing across america. Perhaps there is so many hungry Cameron fans waiting for his next big release. Because his last big release was in fact the Titanic. He did 2 imax film in between but nothing else since that.

[jango]

It is a once in a while thing I just don't know why it was THIS movie.
I'm not sure how it got so much hype. I mean.. it was good.. but was it really THAT good?
I enjoyed watching it and all but I didn't see how it was some amazing breakthrough.

i think the money input into it was probably one of the factors for a need for hype

personally i found it a turn-off .. like a horse in lingerie

[thedeparted]

Yup, IIRC it cost around 300 million.

[LemonRising]

HORSE IN LINGERIE?
OHHHHHHHHHHHHHH LAWD THAT JUST GETS ME ALLLLLLLLLLLL RILLLLLLLLLLLLLLED UP I LOVE ME SOME HORSES IN LINGERIE!



also I agree

money

[youthism_is_me]

lucky guy he got to make a movie about half naked blue people that did well noone else could ever do that

[thedeparted]

Avatar now domestic king 601.1 to Titantic 600.7. Fantasia is next in sites for adjusted inflation which it'll get sometime this week