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rottenwatch box office:

82% Avatar

23% Legion

45% The Book of Eli

15% The Tooth Fairy

36% The Lovely Bones
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26% Extraordinary Measures
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30% To Save a Life

metacritic box office:

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'Avatar' passes 'Dark Knight' at box office. Fox claims three of the frame's top 10 slots

Topping the frame with an estimated weekend gross of $36 million for a cume of $552.8 million, 20th Century Fox and James Cameron's "Avatar" surpassed Warner Bros.' "The Dark Knight" with $533.3 million to become the second highest grossing film.

Along with "Avatar," Fox claimed three of the frame's top 10 slots with "Tooth Fairy" opening to $14.5 million at 3,344 locations, while "Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel" brought in $6.5 million at 2,973 in its fifth frame.

Sony's post-apocalyptic offering "Legion" performed well in its opening frame with $18.2 million at 2,476 locations, while CBS Film's inaugural pic "Extraordinary Measures" opened to $7 million at 2,549.

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DrForester · Jan 24, 2010

Legs on Alvin and the Chipmunks is just staggering.

StoOgE · Jan 24, 2010

Also 2 million shy of Titanic worldwide.

The ship is sinking tomorrow.

DrForester said:
Legs on Alvin and the Chipmunks is just staggering.

Well played :lol

Medalion · Jan 24, 2010

Oh snap, it's actually gonna make it!

Where's your god now Celion Dion?

Lebron · Jan 24, 2010

unbelivable

GhaleonEB · Jan 24, 2010

Domestic: $552,797,000
+ Foreign: $1,283,346,000
= Worldwide: $1,836,143,000

$6.7m from becoming the #1 movie of all time, world-wide.

I think it might make it.

Darklord · Jan 24, 2010

At this rate Avatar could hit $2.5b world wide, a long shot but there's a chance.

StoOgE · Jan 24, 2010

I also can't believe CBS films decided to launch out of the gate with such a by the numbers inspirational piece of shit.

I guess it's better than CSI: Miami the movie. Actually, I'm surprised it's not in production already :lol

bud · Jan 24, 2010

so basically, it'll cross the $2b mark. :lol

and to think that it only got released five weeks ago...

Empty · Jan 24, 2010

Only a 15% drop after a holiday weekend, jesus fuck.

PhoncipleBone · Jan 24, 2010

Soon there will be nothing left for Colonel Quaritch to shoot down.

Washed_Out · Jan 24, 2010

PhoncipleBone said:
Soon there will be nothing left for Colonel Quaritch to shoot down.

"You're not in Kansas anymore."

I need to watch this movie again.

reilo · Jan 24, 2010

PhoncipleBone said:
Soon there will be nothing left for Colonel Quaritch to shoot down.

Need a version of him with a sinking Titanic in the background.

GhaleonEB · Jan 24, 2010

Darklord said:
At this rate Avatar could hit $2.5b world wide, a long shot but there's a chance.

A better chance than you might think. This week - Monday-Sunday - Avatar made $227m. It's dropping at about ~20% per week. If that holds up, we're looking at just 5-6 weeks until $2.5b.

reilo said:
Need a version of him with a sinking Titanic in the background.

Oh, we have that too. Someone will dig it up. :lol

Edit: here it is.

jett · Jan 24, 2010

At this point James Cameron could probably self-finance the next Avatar movie and keep most of the gross to himself. :lol

Blablurn · Jan 24, 2010

avatar *bow*

PhoncipleBone · Jan 24, 2010

GhaleonEB said:
Oh, we have that too. Someone will dig it up. :lol

I rushed together the Dark Knight one this morning in Photoshop (it could be much better, but I wanted it done fast). I didnt search around for the Titanic one. It is somewhere online and on GAF.

skyfinch · Jan 24, 2010

God damn! I honestly thought The Tooth Fairy would place a dollar under Cameron's pillow. I mean, just look at the poster. "You can't handle the tooth". That's frigging gold tooth right there.

judhudson · Jan 24, 2010

*pic removed, beaten*

You are going down, Titanic!

reilo · Jan 24, 2010

GhaleonEB said:
Oh, we have that too. Someone will dig it up. :lol

Edit: here it is.

Why did I ever question the existence of this? :lol

Mashing · Jan 24, 2010

GhaleonEB said:

"First round's on me boys!"

woodchuck · Jan 24, 2010

anybody know how much of the box office take Cameron is getting?

jett · Jan 24, 2010

woodchuck said:
anybody know how much of the box office take Cameron is getting?

No, but usually its 10%. I wouldn't doubt James Cameron getting at least 15% of the gross. 2billion+ gross could give him 300 mill.

Malleymal · Jan 24, 2010

shit.

bigosc2k · Jan 24, 2010

Holy hell #1 again, wow only James Cameron can beat out his own movies

Prine · Jan 24, 2010

He's the King of the World. Again.

ryutaro's mama · Jan 24, 2010

Looks like a lot of people couldn't handle the tooth.

Time to give the people what the really want, Dwayne.

The Game Plan 2: All or Nothing

AnnHog · Jan 24, 2010

Nothing Avatar does surprises me anymore.

ezekial45 · Jan 24, 2010

Well, TDK had a good run. I still haven't seen Avatar, though. I'm gonna catch the IMAX 3D showing later in the week.

bjscott05 · Jan 24, 2010

Finally saw Eli and loved it.

jett · Jan 24, 2010

Eli had a somewhat decent drop, has an outside chance at reaching 100 million dollars.

Sho_Nuff82 · Jan 24, 2010

ryutaro's mama said:
Looks like a lot of people couldn't handle the tooth.

Time to give the people what the really want, Dwayne.

The Game Plan 2: All or Nothing

I'd rather see the Rock in No Holds Barred 2, with Terry Crews as Zeus the second.

GhaleonEB · Jan 24, 2010

bigosc2k said:
Holy hell #1 again, wow only James Cameron can beat out his own movies

What really surprises me isn't that after 12 years, no one else topped Titanic. It's that nothing else came even close. Quick and dirty graph from BOM's top 10 world-wide:

Top two are both Cameron movies, the only original titles in the top 10, and both over $700m ahead of the next closest film. Maybe having short titles is the secret.

Speevy · Jan 24, 2010

Why are people going to see The Lovely Bones? Movie is so, so bad, and not even in a popcorn-muncher way.

ryutaro's mama · Jan 24, 2010

Sho_Nuff82 said:
I'd rather see the Rock in No Holds Barred 2, with Terry Crews as Zeus the second.

You sure you didn't mean you'd rather see a reimagining of Over the Top for today's generation?

You are aware of the Suburban Commando reboot rumors, aren't you?

Spider from Mars · Jan 24, 2010

Avatar is going to be the number one movie of all time....;_;

Veidt · Jan 24, 2010

jett · Jan 24, 2010

Spider from Mars said:
Avatar is going to be the number one movie of all time....;_;

Cry moar. You can join Reitman with your bitter tears.

ryutaro's mama · Jan 24, 2010

Jibril said:

This is the new "u mad?"

Love it.

Johnny Utah · Jan 24, 2010

GhaleonEB said:
What really surprises me isn't that after 12 years, no one else topped Titanic. It's that nothing else came even close. Quick and dirty graph from BOM's top 10 world-wide:

Top two are both Cameron movies, the only original titles in the top 10, and both over $700m ahead of the next closest film. Maybe having short titles is the secret.

I'm sure that if it had 3D prices, Return of the King and Dead Mans Chest, would've come pretty close.

Let's not pretend like that has no bearing....Not saying they would've made as much as Avatar mind you.

Speevy · Jan 24, 2010

Just be glad the #1 movie of all time wasn't one of those spoof movies.

Timbuktu · Jan 24, 2010

What have people got against Reitman? Up in the Air was a good film.

Speevy · Jan 24, 2010

Timbuktu said:
What have people got against Reitman? Up in the Air was a good film.

He directed Juno. Juno

Prine · Jan 24, 2010

Holmes continues to impress. Well done old boy!

DevelopmentArrested · Jan 24, 2010

Timbuktu said:
What have people got against Reitman? Up in the Air was a good film.

He said disbarging remarks about the King of the World.. Avatards can't get over that.

Prine said:
Holmes continues to impress. Well done old boy!

Yup, until you go watch it.. am i rite

ryutaro's mama · Jan 24, 2010

Timbuktu said:
What have people got against Reitman? Up in the Air was a good film.

He came off bitter @ the Golden Globes when Cameron won.

Also, in a series of Roundtable discussions he had with Cameron, Bigelow, Daniels and Tarantino, came off as whiny and spoiled IMO.

Those videos are @ latimes.com and someone linked them in the AVATAR Rottenwatch thread, if you're interested.

msdstc · Jan 24, 2010

Well it's officially going to pass it tomorrow. Few more weeks left though until it passes it domestically.

This being said, nice showing for Legion actually, I know it's not great, but I expected this movie to just pass on by and do nothing, should surpass it's budget by a good amount. Too bad it's apparently terrible.

Empty · Jan 24, 2010

Speevy said:
He directed Juno. Juno

The direction wasn't why that film was obnoxious, though.

DevelopmentArrested · Jan 24, 2010

ryutaro's mama said:
He came off bitter @ the Golden Globes when Cameron won.

Also, in a series of Roundtable discussions he had with Cameron, Bigelow, Daniels and Tarantino, came off as whiny and spoiled IMO.

Those videos are @ latimes.com and someone linked them in the AVATAR Rottenwatch thread, if you're interested.

There's something deliciously ironic about a Cameron-fan shitting on another director's personality.

GhaleonEB · Jan 24, 2010

ryutaro's mama said:
He came off bitter @ the Golden Globes when Cameron won.

Also, in a series of Roundtable discussions he had with Cameron, Bigelow, Daniels and Tarantino, came off as whiny and spoiled IMO.

Those videos are @ latimes.com and someone linked them in the AVATAR Rottenwatch thread, if you're interested.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/movies/envelope-roundtable-series/

He does come off as a bit of a dick. And I liked Juno.

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