Avatar Wins, Totals $73 Million Over Weekend

Posted by Shel in Film on December 21, 2009 1:02 am / no comments

If Â it were not for the extreme snowy conditions across the country, and the scores of last minute shoppers, Avatar most likely would have brought in much more than the $73 Million the James Cameron film made during it’s opening weekend. Â But great reviews, great trailers and the Cameron reputation didn’t stop enough folks from making Avatar the second highest grossing Christmas film behind Will Smith’s Â ”I Am Legend.” Â Avatar Made $232.2 million worldwide. Â Â The Blind Side hung in and made another $10 Million bringing it’s total to $165 million. Â Disney’s The Princess and the Frog,Â lost the number one spot but only feel to #2, a good outing so far for Disney’s first ever portrayal of a African American Princess.

Did You Hear About the Morgans? opened at #4 with $7 Million. Â Surprisingly, New Moon made another visit to the top five, coming in at number 5 with $4.75 million more to bring it’s domestic total to $275M.

Christmas weekend will see the opening of Sherlock Holmes. Â It will be interesting to see if Avatar can hang on, or be beaten out be Robert Downey Jr.,.

NEXT UP:

1	Avatar (2009)	$73M	$73M
2	The Princess and the Frog (2009)	$12.2M	$44.8M
3	The Blind Side (2009)	$10M	$165M
4	Did You Hear About the Morgans?(2009)	$7M	$7M
5	New Moon (2009)	$4.37M	$275M