Weekend Fix: Avatar, Sherlock Lead The Largest Weekend In Film History! Top 12 Earned $275 Million!
on Sunday, December 27, 2009
Top 12 Box Office Hits For December 25-27, 2009
| Rank | Movie | Studio | Theaters | Weekend | Chg | AVG. | Total |
1 | Avatar | Fox | 3452 | $75,000,000 | -3% | $21,701 | $212,268,053 |
2 | Sherlock Holmes | Warner Bros | 3475 | $65,380,000 | New | $18,031 | $65,380,000 |
3 | Alvin And The Chipmunks: The Squeakquel | Fox | 3407 | $50,200,000 | New | $13,568 | $77,051,277 |
4 | It's Complicated | Universal | 2718 | $22,114,420 | New | $7,663 | $22,114,420 |
5 | Up In The Air | Paramount | 3035 | $11,755,000 | 266% | $6,203 | $24,518,000 |
6 | The Blind Side | Warner Bros | 2125 | $11,730,000 | 17% | $4,241 | $184,387,000 |
7 | The Princess And The Frog | Disney | 2070 | $8,683,000 | -29% | $2,499 | $63,357,000 |
8 | Nine | Weinstein | 175 | $5,544,000 | New | $3,926 | $5,922,000 |
9 | Did You Hear About The Morgans? | Sony | 2009 | $5,000,000 | -24% | $1,840 | $15,597,000 |
10 | Invictus | Warner Bros | 2630 | $4,390,000 | 4% | $2,032 | $23,365,000 |
11 | The Twilight Saga: New Moon | Summit | 2242 | $3,000,000 | -32% | $1,883 | $280,923,522 |
12 | A Christmas Carol | Disney | 1538 | $1,356,000 | -61% | $1,089 | $135,952,000 |
All Numbers Provided By Exhibitor Relations Co.
12 comments:
Insane! At this rate, Avatar WILL pass Titanic!
Avatar's second weekend hold is just unbelievable at $75 million - and bear in mind that even in it's first week it underwent a significant upward revision from $73 to $77 million.
Could similar happen again?
I guess this is what you can achieve when you open at the right time! I'd be wary of predicting it will pass Titanic - I don't think it will, but at the very least it will end up between $300-$400 million domestic I think as a minimum.
But then the top three did stupendously well anyway so none of them are losers!
Even further down plenty of older films performed pretty well - especially The Blind Side. It's an absolute lock for $200 million plus now without a doubt.
I agree Kevin- I don't see Avatar passing Titanic. I can definitely see Avatar breaking $400 million- but not $600 million. A few things are sure, though: 3D ticket prices are helping a lot, and Fox must be very relieved that Avatar is such a resounding success!
The 3D will helping a lot, I guess the IMAX will too.
I guess the good news on that front is that it will be a while before another major film takes over it's IMAX slots so it could play there for quite some time yet.
I don't think there will be any major 3D releases either so that will help it's legs. But yeah, somewhere I'm betting somebody is relieved it hasn't bombed.
Mind, since no-one can agree on what it really cost to make and promote (studio 'official' figures aside) it's hard to tell what would be a truly profitable performance in the long run.
Wow, Avatar doing great business! It should hold on well next weekend, probably another $40-50M, but after that, it'll be interesting to see.
AC2 did horribly well. Watching that film is like seeing your own death...
@Graham HAH! Well said!
@Graham
It will indeed!
I think it will have a fairly shallow (for a blockbuster) drop rate over the coming weeks. I think a $45 million third weekend is more than possible plus a few more healthy mid-week grosses before then will help it.
Avatar should definitely break the record for best 3rd weekend (Spider Man-$45 million), it can't possibly drop more than 40% next weekend.
But, it will never come close to The Dark Knight's $533 million in the US. TDK had way more buzz (mostly because of Heath Ledger,)and it was a better movie, even though Avatar sure was amazing.
Blind Side went up this weekend 17%. It didn't drop. This is the 2nd time it's b.o. has gone up. That never happens!
And I think Avatar can eek past Transformers 2 to become #1 movie of the year. I'm so happy that an original movie, not based on a comic book/toy/novel, is doing so well and is well-liked by critics and audiences. It's almost like a throwback. It'll be the first original, non-sequel film to be #1 for the year since 1998 (saving pvt ryan).
Phil- my bad! Thanks for correcting me; I fixed it. I posted the results in a flash, and sometimes I make mistakes! :D
@Phil
Yeah, Blind Side's increase is also impressive because it shed something like 650 theatres going into the weekend and still increased it's take!
And I hope it gets past Transformers 2 as well - even if it's just by a dollar! Not that I hated that film, I just want to see Avatar get ahead of it!
Revised figures show that Avatar narrowly stole the record for largest second weekend box office take ever.
Wonder if it will do it in it's third.
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