If the question is, can anybody beat Avatar? The answer is: not yet.
James Cameron's titanic sci-fi tale notched its fifth straight weekend box-office win, with an estimated $41.3 million Friday-Sunday that pushed its domestic total to nearly $500 million—with business from Monday's Martin Luther King Jr. Day still to come.
Denzel Washington's apocalyptic The Book of Eli came the closest yet to matching Avatar's knack for ticket sales, which means it finished about $10 million behind, with a big $31.6 million.
Going for the Twilight crowd seemed to salvage a so-far disappointing run for Peter Jackson's The Lovely Bones (third place, $17.1 million), while going for The Rock crowd didn't pay off for Jackie Chan's The Spy Next Door (sixth place, $9.7 million).
Here's a look at where Avatar ranks all-time, plus the rest of the Top 10:
• Domestically, Avatar is now the third-biggest movie in Hollywood history, behind only The Dark Knight and Cameron's own Titanic. For those keeping score at home, Avatar stands at $491.8 million as of today's estimates.
• Worldwide, Avatar is holding in second place all-time, behind Titanic, with about $1.6 billion.
• When its ticket sales are adjusted for inflation, Avatar ranks 36th, per Box Office Mojo, an impressive ranking in its own right. For all the blockbusters of the last decade, only three releases from the 2000s rank higher on that list than Avatar.
• The Book of Eli actually did beat Avatar—on Friday. But Avatar came back on Saturday.
• The Book of Eli is the second biggest opener of Denzel Washington's career.
• After doing nothing in limited release, and next-to nothing in the pre-Oscar awards season, The Lovely Bones' wide-release debut was something. Still, the film, which has taken in about $23 million worldwide, is a long way away from matching its reputed $150 million production and marketing budget.
• In its second weekend, Daybreakers ($5 million; $24.2 million overall) took a plunge worthy of the Twilight franchise. The vampire flick was down 67 percent in ticket sales, and dropped like a rock out of the Top 10. (Yes, the Twilight movies do make a whole lot more money in their debuts.)
• The revolution is over for Michael Cera's Youth in Revolt ($2.8 million; $12 million overall), which lost substantial steam in its second weekend.
• Disney's The Princess and the Frog departed the Top 10 after a seven-weekend run and a $96.3 million domestic take that won't match its reported $105 million budget, much less encourage more hand-drawn cartoons that don't play in 3D theaters.
Here's a complete rundown of the holiday weekend's top-grossing films, through Sunday, per estimates compiled by Exhibitor Relations:
1. Avatar, $41.3 million
2. The Book of Eli, $31.6 million
3. The Lovely Bones, $17.1 million
4. Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel, $11.5 million
5. Sherlock Holmes, $9.8 million
6. The Spy Next Door, $9.7 million
7. It's Complicated, $7.7 million
8. Leap Year, $5.9 million
9. The Blind Side, $5.6 million
10. Up in the Air, $5.5 million
See full article at E! Online »
James Cameron's titanic sci-fi tale notched its fifth straight weekend box-office win, with an estimated $41.3 million Friday-Sunday that pushed its domestic total to nearly $500 million—with business from Monday's Martin Luther King Jr. Day still to come.
Denzel Washington's apocalyptic The Book of Eli came the closest yet to matching Avatar's knack for ticket sales, which means it finished about $10 million behind, with a big $31.6 million.
Going for the Twilight crowd seemed to salvage a so-far disappointing run for Peter Jackson's The Lovely Bones (third place, $17.1 million), while going for The Rock crowd didn't pay off for Jackie Chan's The Spy Next Door (sixth place, $9.7 million).
Here's a look at where Avatar ranks all-time, plus the rest of the Top 10:
• Domestically, Avatar is now the third-biggest movie in Hollywood history, behind only The Dark Knight and Cameron's own Titanic. For those keeping score at home, Avatar stands at $491.8 million as of today's estimates.
• Worldwide, Avatar is holding in second place all-time, behind Titanic, with about $1.6 billion.
• When its ticket sales are adjusted for inflation, Avatar ranks 36th, per Box Office Mojo, an impressive ranking in its own right. For all the blockbusters of the last decade, only three releases from the 2000s rank higher on that list than Avatar.
• The Book of Eli actually did beat Avatar—on Friday. But Avatar came back on Saturday.
• The Book of Eli is the second biggest opener of Denzel Washington's career.
• After doing nothing in limited release, and next-to nothing in the pre-Oscar awards season, The Lovely Bones' wide-release debut was something. Still, the film, which has taken in about $23 million worldwide, is a long way away from matching its reputed $150 million production and marketing budget.
• In its second weekend, Daybreakers ($5 million; $24.2 million overall) took a plunge worthy of the Twilight franchise. The vampire flick was down 67 percent in ticket sales, and dropped like a rock out of the Top 10. (Yes, the Twilight movies do make a whole lot more money in their debuts.)
• The revolution is over for Michael Cera's Youth in Revolt ($2.8 million; $12 million overall), which lost substantial steam in its second weekend.
• Disney's The Princess and the Frog departed the Top 10 after a seven-weekend run and a $96.3 million domestic take that won't match its reported $105 million budget, much less encourage more hand-drawn cartoons that don't play in 3D theaters.
Here's a complete rundown of the holiday weekend's top-grossing films, through Sunday, per estimates compiled by Exhibitor Relations:
1. Avatar, $41.3 million
2. The Book of Eli, $31.6 million
3. The Lovely Bones, $17.1 million
4. Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel, $11.5 million
5. Sherlock Holmes, $9.8 million
6. The Spy Next Door, $9.7 million
7. It's Complicated, $7.7 million
8. Leap Year, $5.9 million
9. The Blind Side, $5.6 million
10. Up in the Air, $5.5 million
See full article at E! Online »
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