by Ryan
It's pretty much official. Avatar has surpassed Titanic as the highest grossing film of all time. Boxofficemojo.com has Avatar standing at $1.842 billion dollars, for the record, Titanic still sits at $1.843 billion. These figures are as of Sunday, and if you take into account Monday sales(Avatar tends to make over $2 million on Mondays) then it has ascended to the throne of top grossing. Something interesting though, is that it still trails Titanic in the domestic box office by about $45 million. That's a gap that Avatar could take care of by the end of this weekend.
Whats insane is that Avatar still makes nearly $40 million in a two day weekend. In case anyone is counting, that's 6 weekends its been out, which is the fastest anyone has gone to the top. Titanic took 41 weekends and Star Wars 29 weeks, the past two grossing leaders. Whats more is that people are still going out to see the film in mass numbers. By this time The Dark Knight was only making around $10 million a weekend and Titanic $25 million. Avatar just raked in $35 million.
Looking to the releases this weekend, I don't see Avatar being removed from the top of the box office. The two major films coming out this weekend are Edge of Darkness and When in Rome. Neither one stands a chance, I see Avatar gaining a second wind this weekend after the news breaks wide that it has broken the record. Those last few people who have held out will finally feel the need to shell out the bucks to go see Avatar and witness history.
I try to keep my posts short and this one is starting to run long, so I'll wrap it up. Whats the most intriguing to me is that there is no guarantee that Avatar is the best film of the year, its not guaranteed that it will in the Oscar. Critics still hold the The Hurt Locker is still a better over all film, some will say that Inglorious Basterds still poses a dark horse chance to take the prize. So I want to know what the attraction to the film is, what drew you in? Does Avatar secure it's Academy Award by being king of the hill? Drop us a comment and let us know!
I agree that The Hurt Locker and Inglorious Bastards should stand a better chance at taking the prize. Don't get me wrong Avatar was an awesome movie but should not be nominated in the same category with The Hurt Locker and Inglorious Bastards, which were both awesome films. I have to say I was a bit disappointed to see Avatar take the Golden Globe for Best Picture...
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