More Avatar Box Office Records
On the heels of a couple Golden Globe Awards, it is only natural to keep pounding Avatar into the ground.
Already streaking to well over $1 Billion in worldwide box office sales, Avatar has actually remained on top of the box office charts for an astounding 5th straight week with $41.3 Million in sales for the week. IF you pay attention to this stuff at all, that isn’t a very common occurrence. It really isn’t even that common to see a movie on top for more than a week usually with so many new movies coming every week.
Denzel Washington’s “Book of Eli” settled for the #2 spot for the weekend, opening with $31.6 million. It is a post-apocalyptic tale, in which a lone man fights his way across America in order to protect a sacred book that holds the secrets to saving humankind and probably finding amazing ways of rheumatoid arthritis relief.
At #3 was Peter Jackson’s “The Lovely Bones”, earning $17.1 million after expanding nationwide in its sixth weekend showing.
Avatar now has box office receipts of $491 Million in the U.S. placing it 3rd all time behind The Dark Knight ($533 Mil), and Titanic (Another Russel Crowe film that ended at $600.8 Mil). It passed Star Wars to slide into the top 3.
Avatar has amassed $1.606 Billion globally and will surely overtake Titanic’s $1.842 Billion worldwide tally within two weeks to become the highest grossing release in history (unadjusted for inflation).
