Holiday Weekend Box Office Results: ‘Avatar’ Stays at Top
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Dec 28, 2009 | Comments 3
James Cameron’s “Avatar” movie managed to stay in top position at the U.S. box office over the holiday weekend, bringing in a massive $75 million. Guy Ritchie’s new movie “Sherlock Holmes,” debuted at number 2.
Despite it being Christmas weekend, U.S. moviegoers crowded into their local movie theaters, shattering box-office records in the process. And as we already mentioned, “Avatar” led the way with an amazing $75 million.
According to online.wsj.com, that now brings the “Avatar” global total to a whopping $617.3 million. The estimated $278 million that U.S. moviegoers spent on tickets over the last three days topped the previous record of $260.8 million.
That record was set in July 2008, when “The Dark Knight” was released. The new “Sherlock Holmes” movie, which stars Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law, managed to bring in $65.4 million over the holiday weekend.
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I saw Avatar in 3-D last night and all I can say is “OH MY CAMERON GOD!!” I am so lucky to live a time when someone can dream this thing up and share it with the rest of the world in such an amazingly beautiful, but cavalier way. Is the story of beautiful romance; stranger in a strange land; digital vs anolog new? Of course not… But what is new is the genius way this movie tells that oh so familiar story. For as challenging as it must have been to bring each of these vivid characters to life…simultaneously….while flying…and glowing, it is a testament to the visiony filmaker that the technology is not what your thinking about when Jake attempts to tame his own tourok (ok, maybe I was, but that’s because I’m a geek… and a girl). These amazing jaw drapping special fx could have very easily produced a look-what-I-can-do vapid film, but in Cameron’s hands the effects are just a tool that enables him to create to amazingly accessible characters with whom we relate to better than our own kind.
In all, our saving grace as a species is that although we are capable of and have committed many of the atrocities we are depicted committing in this film, we also have the capabilty to dream of how things could be if we made a concious decision to truly “see”Neach other and the many gifts we’ve been bestowed as a species. That J.C. (Cameron not Christ) has the toys and resources to share with us what he sees is just one more of those gifts and from the looks of these box office results, I would say it’s a gift we all opened for Christmas. Thank You J.C.!!!! (Again Cameron, not Christ).
@xylem108
Wow. Avatar was great. I went into this film mindful of what people were saying about shallow plot and characters, but I feel those people were missing the point. It’s like going to a low budget art-house film and then complaining that there weren’t enough explosions…
James Cameron’s greatest talent has always been combining the various film-making techniques at his disposal and using them to their fullest potential. Like the original Terminator – he created exciting and suspenseful special effects sequences using all manner of low budget methods eg. stop motion, background projections, miniatures etc.
I wish cameron would return to do more terminator films, maybe then the franchise will gain high-gross like this avatar.