"Avatar" No. 1 again, surpasses $1 billion

'Avatar' No. 1 again, surpasses $1 billion
by Caitlin Canavati - Tuesday, 5 January 2010, 04:10 PM
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It looks like "Avatar" has met the standards it was expected to meet! in only 17 days this movie has surpassed a total of $1 billion in the global box office! over just the new years weekend it collected 63.8 million alone and a huge amount of 352.1 million over christmas weekend. also, 66.4 million of that grand total came from the imax theaters will is a record for the company. the movies placing behind avatar were sherlock holmes who made a total of $140 million, Alvin and the Chipmunks made a total of $157 million, its complicated made only $59.1 million, the blind side had $209.1 million, up in the air had $45 million, and the princess and the frog racked in $25.6 million total. these very good turnouts compared to last year with the box office up 70% this year.

i am not surprised at all that Avatar has managed to make this much already. i saw the movie and thought it was incredible. i wanted to go again when i got out of the theater. with the movie costing 300 million to make as it was probably a relief to be making it all back and then all of the rest of it! i would definitely see it again and im sure others will too so it will be excited to see the total result of this film!

http://www.cnn.com/2010/SHOWBIZ/Movies/01/03/boxoffice.avatar.ew/index.html?eref=rss_topstories&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fcnn_topstories+%28RSS%3A+Top+Stories%29