'Avatar' earns a billion dollars, fastest ever
What's blue, larger than life, and can take down the Titanic? Nope, not an iceberg but James Cameron's ground-breaking fantasy/sci-fi flick Avatar.
According to box-office analyst Chad Hartigan of Exhibitor Relations, Avatar has made more than $670 million internationally and more than $352 million in the US in a mere 17 days since its debut. This brings the movie's box-office total to more than $1 billion dollars, making it the fourth biggest-grossing movie to date next only to Titanic with $1.842 billion, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King with $1.119 billion, and Pirates of The Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest with $1.066 billion.
The figures, however, can still be disputed, as IMAX ticket prices are roughly two times more expensive than a regular theater's. That means despite reaching the billion-dollar mark, Avatar potentially has half the audience of the top three flicks.
In any case, it still shows that people are willing to spend a billion dollars on a sci-fi movie. If Avatar lasts for as long as two months in theaters as did Titanic, it has a real chance of sinking the unsinkable ship movie.
Make no mistake, James Cameron is the only person who can beat James Cameron.
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Via Inquirer.net sales figures via BoxOfficeMojo
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Now just because a movie has made $1 bn does it mean it's actually a good movie? Ah sweet pablum for the m*sses. Great eye candy that only lasts until the credits. Afterward you scratch your head wonder, "Was that supposed to be good?"