Five in a row for Avatar
James Cameron’s Avatar is continuing on it’s five week tear across the box office domestically as it brings in a whopping $41.3 Million for the weekend. Because of that, now Avatar is third on the all-time domestic box office, right behind The Dark Knight and completely stomping out Star Wars from it’s third spot. Meanwhile, in the inflated worldwide box office, all Avatar needs to beat Titanic is about $200 Million more, and if it’s still pulling in numbers like it is then that could be foreseeable.
The Book of Eli got a good boost for it’s opening weekend, grabbing about $31.6 Million despite the behemoth that’s taken over first place. The Hughes Brothers directed feature getting as much as it did was a feat among itself, putting into the equation the wide release of Peter Jackson’s The Lovely Bones. The novel adaptation took in a decent share, $17 Million despite it’s $100 Million dollar budget. Depending on whether or not the film gets an Oscar nod will depend on if the film will get a bigger crowd.
Then we can go tap upon the fate of the Jackie Chan comedy The Spy Next Door, making about $9.7 Million on it’s opening weekend, not too impressive for the feature. Here’s the rest of the weekend box office from Box Office Mojo.:
Weekend Box Office (January 15-17)
- Avatar  ($41.3 M)
- The Book of Eli  ($31.6 M)
- The Lovely Bones  ($17 M)
- Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel  ($11.5 M)
- Sherlock Holmes  ($9.8 M)
- The Spy Next Door  ($9.7 M)
- It’s Complicated  ($7.6 M)
- Leap Year  ($5.8 M)
- The Blind Side  ($5.5 M)
- Up in the Air  ($5.4 M)
Coming up for this next weekend in January comes limited releases of Creation and To Save A Life. Out of the mainstream releases are Extraordinary Measures, Legion and Tooth Fairy.
