After months of breathless buzz, speculation, and doubt, James Cameron’s Avatar finally arrived in movie theaters nationwide, and its box office prognosis definitely isn’t blue. The 3-D sci-fi epic landed at number one with an estimated $73 million, according to Hollywood.com Box Office. The number is certainly on the lower end of expectations for the long-anticipated film, but considering that much of the east coast was buried under record snowfall for most of the weekend, it remains an unambiguously solid opening — the best 3-D debut ever and the second-best December debut behind I Am Legend. Also unambiguous: The film’s rock-solid “A” CinemaScore rating, which, along with the raves currently streaming across Twitter and inundating message boards (like this one), suggests it will grow long legs at the box office well into the new year. (It’s no wonder that IMAX screenings of the film reportedly sold-out every single seat.) Worldwide, the picture’s already banked an estimated $232.2 million.
The crappy weather appears to have suppressed all box-office totals, too. The Princess and the Frog hopped to second place with $12.2 million, a 50 percent drop from its wide debut last weekend, for $44.8 million total. The Blind Side caught $10.0 million for third place. With $164.7 million total, it officially surpasses The Proposal as the highest grossing film for star Sandra Bullock. Her old Two Weeks Notice co-star Hugh Grant, however, isn’t sharing the same box-office fate; Did You Hear About The Morgans?, his romcom with Sarah Jessica Parker, debuted at fourth place with a weak $7 million.
Up in the Air continued its stellar limited run, accruing $3.1 million for 8th place on just 175 screens, a 29 percent jump from last week for $8.1 million total. It opens wide on Dec. 23. Other Oscar-bait films opened in very limited release to strong returns. Movie musical Nine high-stepped to a $61,750 per location average in four theaters; biopic The Young Victoria earned $7,400 per theater in 20 locations; and music-inflected drama Crazy Heart strummed up $21,050 per theater in four locations.
Overall, despite the blizzard, box office was up a whopping 58 percent from last year, when the Jim Carrey comedy Yes Man was tops.
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Avatar will break-even all production and marketing costs by the end of next week!
I really hope so, but 500 mil in two weeks is a lot. I hope it can pull it off.
That 500 million figure is pure BS.
I don’t know. It was about 300 mil to make it and probably an additional 200 mil to promote it. And they clearly promoted it A LOT.
I can’t wait to see this movie – marriage-matchmaker
Whether the final budget was 300 or 500 million, this thing is getting way too good word of mouth. It’s already done 232 million worldwide and it hasn’t even opened in China, where manga-loving and Sci Fi-loving audiences are sure to love it. I guarantee you this will not gross less than 900 million worldwide. Enough for a sequel and to be considered an unqualified smash hit and profit-maker…
well seing that half blood prince made 77 mil opening and 394 world wide i doubt avatar makes more than 900( if china didnt show up for transformers than why avatar.)
I agree. I don’t think it will make over 900 mil like HBP, but I think it might pass Tranformers 2 and make atleast 700 mil…if it’s lucky and more people decide to watch it based on word-of-mouth.
I really hope he doesn’t make a sequel. I’m not comparing the two, but it would be like making a sequel to The Titanic. Maybe a line of books….
“if china didnt show up for transformers than why avatar.”<– Because Transformers 2 sucked; Avatar didn't.
AND it made $159.2 million overseas for a $232.2 million dollar weekend!!! Way ta go, Mr. Cameron. This movie is brilliant. I loved it. Will see it again. . . . and maybe even a 3rd time in 3D. It’s amazing. Bravo.
Whoops. The article said that. Anyway, it’s a HUGE opening for a marvelous film. It’s gonna make at least a billion dollars for sure. My 2 cents!
I’m going to go see it again today in 3-D. My friend saw it in 3-D and said it was amazing and it wasn’t cheap and cheesy like some 3-D effects. Plus I could tell from the non 3-D version that the film would be a whole other magnificent experience in 3-D.
I saw it in 3D and it was AMAZING. My first 3D movie experience and so worth it. It will be fun to own this film on DVD but I’m going to see it at least 3 more times in the theater as the big screen is really how to see this wonderful, wonderful film.
3D first-timer hear as well. Two words: A-mazing. I barely paid attention to the story, the visuals were that amazing. Definitely going again.
It’s amazing to me that a rude, wife-beating egomaniac like James Cameron keeps having so much success. Hopefully the mighty will fall and fall hard. I truly look forward to the day.
Wow Jeff can you say hater???
BRITTANY MURPHY IS DEAD!!! WTF?!
Brittany Murphy is dead but her work lives on in Avitar. RIP.
A film needs to gross much more than production costs to break even. The studio splits the gross with the exhibitors (ie. the theater chains) and based on whatever deal was made between them, the film will only take home anywhere from 50% to 80% of the box office gross that gets reported. Deduct any gross participation points that Jim Cameron has and you have an even smaller number so no, this will not break even by the end of next week.
Cameron deferred back-end payouts until after a certain figure is recouped by the gross. So, that cannot figure into your calculations. Also, the week before and after Christmas usually strengthen a pic that bows on the weekend prior. It’s perfectly conceivable (with such good WOM) that it hits $600M world BO, thus covering all production costs in the next 8 days.
Niix Starkyller, a film has to gross three times the costs before it is in the black. If it hits $600M worldwide, the studio will probably take home $300M after they split it with the exhibitors (and I’m guessing that they’ll probably be getting at 70-80% of opening weekend box office, with a sliding scale for each weekend afterward).
Let’s be clear: Avatar does not conform to any single forumula — none of which has any verifiable credence on any film production among the ‘experts’ any — or precedence before it (Avatar estimates go from $280M to $500M+). It is and forever will be arguable {FTR I take $300M + $150M marketing as the best base cost ets). What ARE the exhib deals? They’re hardly standard. Further, putting a film ‘in the black’ is a nebulous statement. Production, marketing, development, tech R&D, other additionals, tax benefits; which are you factoring? If industry pubs still write lenghty articles arguing ‘in the black’ precisely who are we to be so certain of the ins and outs?
Ugh, that was an error-filled post. LOL. Anyway, to sum it up, I stand by my statement that it was CONCEIVABLE to win back primary costs in the intial 8-day run, based on primary WW BO of $600M. Unless the weekend totals spike, it’ll all be moot anyway. No one at the studios seem to doubt it’ll turn profit at the end of the run, though. Just not as quickly as I’d guessed. Happy Holidays!
Hell yeah! Avatar will remain tops for a looong time!
“Avatar” was a great flick! Great effects meshed with a great story and superb acting! I applaud James Cameron. He’s brought us another special gem!!
What story? The script was cobbled together from half a dozen other movies all much better than this mind numbing snooze fest.
I agree. Call it “Dances With Aliens” and you know all that you need to know of the plot.
Thank god someone is willing to call this brain dead cartoon show for what it really is.
what happened to movie making? animation is not film making. this is a cartoon flick in 3d for children.
Just because there wasn’t great dialog doesn’t mean it wasn’t a great story. Though the characters didn’t really move me, the story did. It was a great movie-going experience.
Typical. Our media is soo over-saturated these days that it creates un-impressionable idiots like the few above.
Avatar was a great film and if you werent impressed by it, stop wasting your time going to movies cause NOTHING will come out that will meet the standards of people like you. Movie Snobs are complete Douch*s, stop trying soo hard to be one.
I think the cost of the movie ranges between $250-300 million, with “roughly” $150-200 million for advertising. All told, roughly a $500 million total budget. The WSJ did an interesting stories about 3 weeks ago about all the parties that were taking a risk on this project, and how the risk was intelligently “leveraged” downwards to get this movie done, including Cameron himself believing so strongly in the picture he allowed all the “creditors” to get paid before himself. Never has such a risk been taken since The Passion of the Christ, and it will pay off handsomely in the end…the only question will be whether there will be a remake or not, and how/when/if the beautiful cinematography can possibly be topped…
For those complaining about the blue NA’VI people, just check out superhot Zoe Saldana turning a 12″ foot alien into the sexiest “cartoon” character since Jessica Rabbit (except this one is incredibly lifelike and agile yet compelling at the same time)…she won’t receive an Academy Award nomination, and MANY won’t even know who she is when they leave the theatre, but its her character that drives the movie throughout despite Sam Worthington’s narration, it’s the story of her tribe, after all.
I don’t think it had anything to do with the snow storm. The other movies did as expected. People are hearing that the story line is just Dance With Stars or A Man Named Horse set in a sci-fi, animated world. Plus, it’s a lot of corny dialogue and lulls in the story. I’m surprised that some critics are acting like this is such a game changer. Didn’t the movie industry mix live action and animation 25 years ago in Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
I would have contributed to this opening like twice if i hadn’t been snowed in. same with other people i know
Sometimes it helps if you actually read the article before posting. It clearly says that ALL films were affected by the snowstorm.
You are an idiot. Maybe you should see the movie yourself and not be such a sheep.
I would disagree that this story is just Dance with Wolves warmed over. I liken it more to Ingolorous Bastards….the Aboriginal revenge story, instead of the Jewish revenge story.
What would North America be like today had the indiginous repelled the colonists?
It is clear that the weather affected all movies. For instance, the 50% drop for The Princess and the Frog was unexpectedly high.
Why don’t they include Sunday in weekend totals? We were slammed on the East Coast this weekend so that’s also something to think about.
Sunday is included. They track audience patterns and estimate the final weekend total ahead of time. Final numbers are released on Monday and can fluctuate a bit, but generally this estimation is pretty accurate.
Sunday is included in the total, based on what a movie did on Friday and Saturday they can estimate what it will take in Sunday. Thats why you always see weekend “estimate” on Sundays and “actuals” on Monday.
Finally. New Moon is out!!
In some ways it is a Western…essentially, with a sci-fi setting. Alex, have you even seen it? I was skeptical myself, but after 2 viewings (not even in 3D or IMAX) here in Thailand, and seeing the reaction and the conversations taking place afterwards, this is going to be a game-changer.
Movies like Star Trek or New Moon, they might have had more of a built-in audience to draw from, but nobody was talking about them (and I mean people from all walks of life, not just teenagers) all around the WORLD, and that will happen with this movie, guaranteed.
There’s no point in comparing it to Dances With Wolves, Lord of the Rings, Jurassic Park, it has elements of ALL those movies and plot lines, but it’s a movie experience like nothing I can remember, and I just turned 40 and see a ton of movies every year and I can’t wait to see it a 3rd time in IMAX and/or 3-D in Bangkok.
Avatar was a very fun experience. was it the greatest film I’ve ever seen? of course not. not even close to cracking my top 50. but it was the most fun I’ve ever had in the theater. highly recommended.
Why does that not make it a great film then?
I’m not trying to answer for Marc, but I feel the same way about the film too. It was really fun and thrilling and I liked it a lot, but it wasn’t the best of the year. Probably because it was kind of formulaic and predictable.
Definitely my best movie-going experience of the year. But maybe not the best movie.
My first 3-D experience (besides the red and blue glasses) and I agree – best movie-going experience of the year.
No mention of New Moon, EW? I’m sure if I look outside my window I will see a flying pig landing on the bed of snow. Oh wait, New moon has dropped like a rock like most of us predicted and it is not worth losing your credibility with all the shameless promotion.
Well, New Moon has already beaten Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkhaban.
It has made over 270 million in 4 weeks.
I’m not even a Twilight fan, but New Moon is certainly a giant success.
Also, I don’t know why you felt the need to mention it in response to an article that didn’t mention it at all.
Yeah, new moon is a success but it is not the biggest film franchise out there and is of poor quality. However, EW has constantly pushed for the dumb series just so they can get page views. It hurts their credibility when treat something as trashy as new moon like it is the most important thing in the world and expect us to take their criticism of other movies and books seriously. So I do have to call them out on it. And you are not accounting for inflation so you sound like you have no idea what you are talking about. And by the way why don’t compare the worldwide gross of the Azkaban and New Moon and tell me which is a bigger success.
No it hasn’t. Prisoner of Azkaban made 794.5 million worldwide. New Moon has only made 634.7 million.Get your facts straight.
Sorry Kara, but New Moon hasn’t beaten any Harry Potter film. Check out worldwide totals, those are the ones that matter.
Good God, for supposedly hating the HP comparisons, Twitards sure like bringing it up nowadays.
New Moon hasn’t beaten ANY Harry Potter film worldwide, not even Azkaban, which is by far the lowest-grossing HP film. I don’t think WB cares where the money comes from, as long as it comes in. Ask a studio executive what they’d rather have, $795 million globally but only $249 million of it in the U.S., or $290-ish million in the U.S. but only about $675-ish million total worldwide. And watch them laugh at you and tell you to get the hell out of their office.
People need to wean themselves off the teat of U.S. box office superiority.
LOL, you guys. I’m not even a Twilight fan, but clearly she was talking about its domestic gross. And you can ignore it all you want, but domestically New Moon has beaten one HP movie already, and a few other HP films did not reach 300 million.
Worldwide gross is obviously incredibly important, but you’re kidding yourselves if you don’t think that domestic gross is also hugely important.
Do you guys really not understand that Kara was talking about domestic gross?
And since ew.com is a United States magazine, it makes sense that people on here would take domestic gross very seriously.
Like Sarah said, you’re kidding yourselves if you don’t recognize that domestic gross is incredibly important.
That being said, worldwide gross is also very important.
I could care less about Twilight, but anyone who uses the word “Twitards” loses my respect. What an incredibly offensive, childish, and immature comment.
Shame on you.
Personally, I sometimes get frustrated with the amount of Twilight coverage on this site. Also, I’m a huge Harry Potter fan and it bugs me that HP doesn’t receive nearly the same amount of coverage.
That being said…it frustrates me when people like “To EW” feel the need to continually bring up Twilight in response to an article that has nothing to do with Twilight.
I may not like it, but the Twilight series is a huge success and it’s not going anywhere. To continually complain about it when it’s not even mentioned in an article is as annoying to read as is the excessive coverage itself.
But hey, I can’t control what anyone posts, so to each his/her own.
She is pretty clearly talking about the domestic gross, yeah. But to talk JUST about the domestic gross while completely disregarding the global gross is to miss the forest for the trees.
As was said, the studio probably doesn’t care so much where it makes its money, as long as it makes it.
And neither Twilight film has even come near where the lowest-grossing HP film has on a global scale.
Good God, can we please have one thread on here that doesn’t devolve into a Twilight/HP pissing contest? Especially considering that New Moon wasn’t even mentioned in the article.
How about this:
Twilight fans, New Moon has out-grossed one five-year-old HP film in the U.S. This is apparently the high point of your fandom, so by all means, enjoy it.
Harry Potter fans, HP’s worldwide dominance is safe and won’t be ending any time soon. So lighten up.
I think the entire point was that 3 (maybe more) HP films so far haven’t reached 300 million domestically. However, they all received good reviews. Therefore, good word of mouth and great reviews can only take you so far.
That being said, as someone who could care less about Harry Potter or Twilight, both New Moon and Harry Potter are obviously successful. The real contest in my opinion will be to see how Eclipse does, since it will have a summer release, and it will be released in IMAX.
and to add to that, Kara was talking about New Moon’s gross as of now. By the end of it’s run, I’m sure it’ll be in the 290-300 mill range (or more), which will domestically put it in the same range as 3 or 4 HP releases.
In relation to the topic at hand, I think that shows us that even a movie that has great reviews (i.e., Harry Potter) won’t necessarily be “record-breaking”. Thus, I think people assuming that Avatar is going to exceed 400 million, or more, is ridiculous. “Good word of mouth” isn’t enough to get it there.
WTF is up with you people who say you “could care less”? Are you kidding me? That is NOT the expression, and if you thought about it for a second you would realize that that doesn’t make any sense. It’s “COULDN’T care less.”
I agree with your assessment that being a good movie and having good word of mouth doesn’t necessarily translate to overall success. But it also shows that no matter how much money a terrible movie makes, it’s still a terrible movie. Just look at Transformers and New Moon. Each had godawful reviews and inexplicably made a ton of money.
To @ Mark:
Yes, I agree. Obviously New Moon has made a ton of money, but that doesn’t really have anything to do with the quality of the movie. In fact, I have several friends who are huge fans of the Twilight book series, yet they strongly dislike the films and often criticize them more harshly than Twilight haters.
Anyways, that was the point I was trying to make with the New Moon/Harry Potter comparison. Several of the Harry Potter films have been outstanding, yet New Moon will end up being in the same range as them domestically, and I’m sure that Eclipse will do even better with it’s summer IMAX release.
Like we’ve both said, good reviews/good word of mouth doesn’t always translate to record-breaking box office success.
Not all movie follow the same path. Just because word of mouth does not impact some movies does not mean others are not. Look at my big fat greek wedding, the Hangover, blind side, the original pirates of the carribian, titanic and many, many more. Avatar is one of those movies that word of mouth will have an impact. Just wait and see.
Different movies obviously have different box office trends, and I’m not saying that Avatar won’t make a ton of money. I’m sure that it will. However, I don’t see it getting anywhere NEAR 400 million, let alone anywhere near Titanic’s domestic gross. That’s my opinion.
The reason New Moon dropped like a tonne of rocks is because the movie stupidly did not focus more on the Edward/Bella romance that made the first movie such a success. Instead, it decided to focus on everything else and tried to make what sucked in the book better on screen. Yay, this was accomplished. However, making something that sucked big time suck a little less still doesn’t make the movie enjoyable. The only parts of the New Moon book I loved were the beginning and the end. Surprise, surprise, that’s how I felt about the movie. It was so not worth it to sit through the movie more than once especially since they didn’t even give the end of the movie the justice the book did. I’m a huge Twilight fan and I was pretty disgusted that was the movie that was made. The directing was great but the focus was completely off and the story was just very poorly portrayed. I think when the movies get back to realizing why people are obsessed with the series maybe the movie won’t drop like that again. Maybe the movie also needs a female director who will absolutely understand what people love about the series. Edward. People may absolutely love everyone else but the main reason all the books and eventually the first movie were such outstanding successes in the first place was Edward and the Edward/Bella relationship. You don’t have to believe me but let’s wait and see when this is all said and done.
Well Titanic made 1.8 billion worldwide and it trumps all of your little HP and Twatlight movies now STFU you n00bs. Yeah I said it!
I agree with you.
I’m neutral when it comes to Twilight, but even I can recognize it’s level of success. It’s sad that people who hate it seem to be the ones who mention it all the time.
Anyways, I saw Avatar and I thought that it was a beautiful film. However, I do still think that it will experience significant drops from weekend to weekend.
Jesus christ. For once, EW did not bring up New Moon AT ALL, yet all of you brought it back up and started another bickering contest. If you really hated seeing Twilight that much, why would you bring up the friggin’ movie at all?
I swear, some of you just want to come here to whine and complain. Give it a rest already.
haha exactly! bringing up that twilight garbage is an insult to a REAL film like Avatar.
Dear fans & EW,
Avatar was an AMAZING movie, but is Avatar just Pocahontas in CG?
Exactly. Lmao. That’s what I was thinking during the scene when Jake is brought to Neytiri’s father. That guy, Tsu’Tey is like Kocoum.
It’s more like Dances With Wolves than Pocahontas. And there were some scenes cribbed shot-for-shot from Michael Mann’s Last of the Mohicans. But people dissing it because of those comparisons are missing the point… Dances With Wolves in space is actually a fantastic idea! I’m glad a whiz like James Cameron is the one who thought of it.
I’m not dissing it. I thought it was fantastic. It’s still more like Disney’s Pochahontas though. They even had a magical tree and they did the “listen with your heart” thing a lot.
I took “LMAO” to be dissing. My bad. I haven’t seen Disney’s Pocahontas, but most things Disney are a bastardization of the original source material. Anyways, I think we can agree that Cameron has seen a lot of movies about Native Americans!
No I have a bad habit of using “lmao” but I thought it was funny because I had been thinking the exact same thing. It IS like Pochahontas, but it’s not a bad thing at all.
i just saw “avatar” online real good quality and i have to say i actually did like the film , was not bored at any moment, love the story, the movie was cute, but i’m commenting coz i had the same reaction as you “pocohantas” kept popping out of my mouth every other scene, i kept saying omg its pocohantas in space, and i do like pocohantas so its not an insult, so sure at times the movie was corny,so what? and yes there were a lot of scenes where as a moviefan u go oh i know that line, i’ve seen that same montage elsewhere hum, so what it didnt take away from the story and romance…BUT seriously how depressing is it to think that after a couple more centuries down the line humans evolution has stalled at the americano cowboy and the wild wild west stage…we can hardly hop over to the moon now but when we’re able to reach a world like pandora we act all GIjoe in vietnam there tsk tsk…i’ll take star trek 24th century any day any time over that urghh too depressing,…i will go see it at the theatre just coz now i know it does deserves my 6.50$ and just being seen on a big screen, pandora is a breath-taking sight!
You pirated Avatar? ::rolls eyes::
White Guilt Fantasy
Avatar is a classic scenario you’ve seen in Hollywood epics from Dances With Wolves, Dune, District 9 and The Last Samurai, where a white guy manages to get himself accepted into a closed society of people of color and eventually becomes its most awesome member.
If we think of Avatar and its ilk as white fantasies about race, what kinds of patterns do we see emerging in these fantasies?
A white man who was one of the oppressors switches sides at the last minute, assimilating into the alien culture and becoming its savior.
These are movies about white guilt. Our main white characters realize that they are complicit in a system which is destroying aliens, AKA people of color – their cultures, their habitats, and their populations.
The whites realize this when they begin to assimilate into the “alien” cultures and see things from a new perspective. To purge their overwhelming sense of guilt, they switch sides, become “race traitors,” and fight against their old comrades. But then they go beyond assimilation and become leaders of the people they once oppressed.
This is the essence of the white guilt fantasy, laid bare. It’s not just a wish to be absolved of the crimes whites have committed against people of color; it’s not just a wish to join the side of moral justice in battle. It’s a wish to lead people of color from the inside rather than from the (oppressive, white) outside.
Everyone please ignore this troll. I have seen this same message by “Steve Real” on several other websites.
Please friend do you have to go for the personal attack?
Because you are not like other people here just giving their opinion for or against but delibrately going to random sites to spread your insane propaganda. Don’t be mad I caught you.
Actually, Anna, you’re coming off sounding more like the troll here. I’ve heard Steve’s argument in several college literature classes. This type of story is a pretty standard reaction to “white man’s burden” and “noble savage” literature. You don’t have to agree with his take on the movie, but maybe you could try educating yourself a little before you form your own, supportable opinion, instead of just clouding up this board with ad hominem attacks.
Hey, any college course discussing racial relations would draw the same conclusion, and if you pay attention, it isn’t propaganda, but fact. Its not even racist, but realistic.
He is a troll because he is going around to different website pasting the same unnecessary race baiting message. I have seen this word for word on at least 3 different sites and he definately has an agenda that goes beyond just giving an opinion. That is my problem with him.
Steve really needs to get a life.
Anna who cares? What’s with getting personal about it?
That’s an interesting way of looking at things and it’s also kind of true. Maybe that’s the message James Cameron was trying to send.
I thought the story had huge themes of the white settlers taking America from the Native Americans. The Na’vi had very similar characteristics to the American Indians.
The story was also very similar to Pochontas to me.
I am also in my 40’s and have seen many movies, but this was the absolute best ever! Thank you Mr. Cameron for providing me with 2 hours of pure entertainment. And to Stevie Wonder Real, you really need to read up on history because the “Oh we are still oppressed” stuff became boring in the 80’s – your African leaders sold you folks out to the whites as slaves while England sold whites (yup that’s right) as indentured slaves all to help build the new world. Surprisingly I never heard those facts mentioned during those 2 CNN “Black In America” specials, probably because it would have killed all the complaining you folks do about, well, everything.
Well done Vin!
So you just automatically assume he’s black. Wow.
really do you think I’m black?
that’s very interesting…
Steve Real has a great point. If it hurts your feeling then that’s because you feel a sense of truth in it. Period!
so if I called you a douchebag and you got upset over it then it must be true right?
So what if it’s white guilt. The “white” people in this movie were the oppressors… as they have been throughout most of history. Whites SHOULD feel guilty.
Yeah, I really don’t. I do very little oppressing to be honest.
have any of you ever thought about the fact that the color doesnt matter? Maybe the white guy just happened to be the best man for the part? it could have very well been a black guy in the lead and this whole argument wouldn’t be happening.
Read more Science Fiction
Another case of someone over thinking a thing that is quite simple. Try not to hurt your brain friend.
here we go… the race card. oh joy.
It has nothing to do with race but everything to do with being human or in this case inhuman. What about the genocides in Africa, the Khmers in Asia and the Nazis in Europe. These are example os massacres committed against members of ones race. Some members of our species will stop at nothing to get what they want. That’s all.
Well said.
exactly, the opressor of this movie was greed
YES!!! I’m really excited it’s made so much money. Hopefully those numbers will continue to increase as the weekend comes to a close. I’m tempted to add another 10 dollars to the total. The film was so amazing and I’m actually aching to see it again. I feel like I want to understand it more. The first time around I was completely in awe of it.
I completely agree with everything you said! I too want to see this again because there was simply too much to soak up the first time (which is a good thing). I love this movie and hope it earns the kind of success it deserves-snowstorm or not!
For the 3-D version do you have to wear annoying 3-D glasses?
Of course. But the newer once aren’t annoying to me.
yes but its not like the rinky-dink paper glasses from the 80’s.
The $73 million does include Sunday’s estimated figure of $20 million. Friday’s total was $27 million and Saturday’s total was $25 million.