by Ryan
Yea, the Channing Tatum and Amanda Seyfried chick flick turned in a record breaking Super Bowl weekend opening, and did something that Sherlock Holmes, The Book of Eli, and It's Complicated couldn't do. Avatar was dethroned for the first time in seven weeks, making a still respectable $23 million dollars; Dear John made over $32 million dollars according to boxofficemojo. The total box office take for Avatar sits at over $2 billion dollars, larger than the GDP of many third world countries.
When you first hear that Dear John(29% on RottenTomatoes) dethroned Avatar, you might be surprised. A flimsy chick flick takes down the highest grossing film of all time. Even though Avatar has been out for seven weeks now it still seems far fetched. Looking under the hood could show why this was such a success. According to E! online, around 80% of the tickets bought for Dear John were by females and 60% of tickets sales were under 21. Sooo, the twinies floated another film!
It'll be interesting to see what happens next weekend when the normal movie go-ing crowd returns to theaters. Avatar could return to the top, considering most of Dear John's fan base has already seen the film. However, it could stay up top when wives and girlfriends bring their boyfriends back to the theaters for Valentines Day.
I put my stake in Avatar, what do you think? Drop us a comment!
Valentine's day will probably keep dear john at the top. it's not all too far fetched considering that, at this point, most of America has seen AVATAR already and so now it's down to it's lowest grossing status. take a look back at what book of eli, its complicated, and up in the air opened up at and compare it to what avatar made this weekend.
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