
Avatar Box Office Gross
The $430-million Avatar is a big hit at the box office. It has made a roaring start. With holiday approaching it may set new targets. And if does so then 20th Century Fox’s bet on James Cameron is turning true.
From US to Europe, Far East and South Asia, the film is doing great business and it is believed, the box office collections are going to be stronger in the days and weeks to come.
In Mumbai, the biggest filmmaking centre outside Los Angeles, Avatar is attracting movie goers like no other film from Hollywood.
Several Bollywood films that were released recently have been completely overshadowed by the magic that James Cameron has created with his latest film.
The much-talked about film has received an overwhelming response from movie buffs. It is being estimated that it sold $232.2 million worth of tickets around the world this weekend.
This figure is the ninth-biggest global debut of all time. Here ticket-price inflation has not been accounted.
This is sort of an achievement for the Fox’s marketing machine. Experts are trying to figure out how the entertainment industry succeeded in generating such a huge interest in a picture whose name is not so special. Besides, the name of the film doesn’t excite fans.
However, most of the money is being generated from the rest of the world. It has yet to make its debut in Japan and China, where fans are known to love watching sci-fi film.
Already reviews are coming out. Interestingly, the film collected $159.2 million in northern Europe, where the weather as of now is atrocious.
James Cameron has a habit to mesmerizing his audience. He has done it repeatedly through his films one after the other.
Many people said that Titanic was his best film and he may not be able to come up with another film that can be such a great success they never foresaw the Avatar, his latest baby.
People should have thought that if he can recreate such a great magic like Titanic, that was the story of a sunken ship, what he can make with the discovery of another planet.
And he has done exactly that.
Despite, rain, snowstorm and every other challenge in between, people across the world are rushing in to see the magic he has created in the film, with the help of special effects and great acting that his across have come up with.
The film was written off before its launch and many had said that it will not be able to make much money.
But just a few days into the theatre critics are saying that the film may gross as much as a billion dollar at the box office.
So far the film has grossed approximately $250 million worldwide, and if current rage continues it will very easily tough one billion dollar mark.
The futuristic science fiction epic, shown with new 3D technology that was 12 years in the making, thus took in about a quarter of its production costs estimated at $250 to 300 million.
Cameron’s previous phenomenal success was “Titanic”. A record December snowstorm that has shut down roads and commercial firms across most of the East Coast could have eaten into the potential take, Hollywood experts said.
Disney’s animated film “The Princess and the Frog” dropped to second place from first place last week, with $12.2 million, followed by: “The Blind Side” ($10 million); “Did You Hear About the Morgans?” ($7 million); “The Twilight Saga: New Moon”, ($4.3 million); the Nelson Mandela biopic, “Invictus”, ($4.2 million); “A Christmas Carol” (2009) ($3.4 million); “Up in the Air” with George Clooney ($3.1 million); “Brothers” ($2.6 million); and “Old Dogs” ($2.3 million).
James Cameron’s 3-D epic rakes in an estimated $232 million worldwide, despite snow on the East Coast that held its North American box-office sales to $73 million.