Avatar passes 1 billion dollars in sales in just over 2 weeks

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MontanaHatchet said:

Reasonable said:

If you can't read the post there's no point responding.  Not least if you're basically refusing to actually understand a written about and noted fact.  As for the list - I've seen it many times, that's a site I use regularly.  It doesn't change the validity of my arguement one iota.

Montana, as I've seen in other posts you've steamed in and seem unable to then pause and consider you might actually be wrong, so I'm not going to get into extended back and forth.

My point is Titanic benefited from Leomania, which it absolutely did, and that Avatar won't have that advantage although like Titanic it will benefit from having a relatively high level of 'must see' status.

So to be blunt I see nothing in any of your posts that actually convinces me I'm wrong.  On the other hand...

 

 

Your arrogance is quite annoying.

You argued that Titanic got its humongous worldwide gross from Leomania, or some kind of rabid obsession by the teenage girl audience. And then you tried to paint how amazing the 1.8 billion dollar gross is, when I showed you that in total tickets sold, it's not even in the top 5. It benefited from its time just as much as Avatar. Your whole point about it not being able to hold because it doesn't have interesting characters (and whatnot) is solely personal opinion and isn't indicated any way in box office figures. For a movie that supposedly isn't interesting and has bland characters, it's been seeing ridiculous box office numbers for weeks now.

I pointed out that many of the most popular movies of all time (by ticket sales sold) don't have some kind of obvious appeal to teenage girls (seriously, it's not like the girls we're going crazy over Luke Skywalker), and that in reality, Titanic just benefited from the inflated currency of the time. And you earlier brought up Twilight: New Moon, but that doesn't even come close to the highest grossing film of 2009 (it's Avatar, in case you didn't know).

Montana, Titanic didn't get a lot of its initial gross from Leomania, but I can assure you that the reason it had the legs it did (and by extension, its $1.8 billion total) can be largely attributed to that. Hell, it was putting up $20 million in its TWELFTH weekend. That's just insane. That's more than 3 times what E.T did, and that movie also stayed up forever (It actually had more #1 weekends than Titanic did, but not consecutively). Can Avatar beat that? I doubt it, though it will probably break at least a few more weekend records (4/5/6th are $28/30/25 million respectively - by Titanic btw).

As I posted in another thread, Avatar will pass Titanic in:

13 days (January 17, 2010) @ $58 million/day or $406 million/week (the current rate; obviously this is unrealistic)

20 days (January 23, 2010) @ $40 million/day or $280 million/week

27 days (January 30, 2010) @ $30 million/day or $210 million/week

32 days (February 4, 2010) @ $25 million/day or $175 million/week

40 days (February 13, 2010) @ 20 million/day or $140 million/week

53 days (February 26, 2010) @ 15 million/day or $105 million/week

80 days (March 25, 2010) @ 10 million/day or $80 million/week

114 days (April 28, 2010) @ $7 million/day or $49 million/week

but the big question is how bigl will Avatar's legs be? As Reasonable pointed out, with kids going back to school this week and the holidays over, there is a signifcant potential for a large drop this week, though otoh there aren't any really compelling movies coming out in the near future so who knows? we shall see by the end of this week.

Either way, it will definitely destroy the other two movies ahead of it and make at least $1.4-1.5 billion, which is very, very impressive even with ticket prices being what they are. $1.4 billion @ an average of $10.50 a ticket (assuming 25/75 split between 2D/3D at $7/$12 a ticket) is still 133.3 million tickets. By comparison, Titanic's $1.8 billion at an average of $5 a ticket is a massive 360 million tickets, so yes it was more successful, but the studio isn't going to care because money is money no matter how you get it.

fun note: Gone With The Wind's $189 million from its first release in 1939 with an average price of just $0.30 per ticket would be equal to an unbelievably astronomical 630,000,000 tickets sold. (And yes, that figure is accurate as far as I can tell) No one will EVER beat that. EVER