This is just guessing. :-p

I'm just going with a slightly better IM than the the films received in 1998 (which I don't like using though). For upper 60's, 27m or so.

If $24m holds, that's also the biggest single January day (and saturday, sunday, weekend and all that too). Which has been known for at least week now, but I don't think it was pointed out by anyone yet.

I said biased because I am obviously "biasing" myself by taking different points, because I think that Avatar will hold its strong Box Office during the winter even better than Titanic did

I have to give you that the drop after Monday is going to be noticeable. It must be. Otherwise I'd be predicting over 1.2 billion domestic

We'll know for sure by MLK

Hmm... I too agree on that but I think so even with 24M Friday there should be 23M,19M on sat, sun respectively that should make it 66M. upper 60's eh

Excuse me but how is it biased? I was using Shack's own criteria, not mine...

I guess he was being biased himself to make Avatar a success

I said biased because I am obviously "biasing" myself by taking different points, because I think that Avatar will hold its strong Box Office during the winter even better than Titanic did

I have to give you that the drop after Monday is going to be noticeable. It must be. Otherwise I'd be predicting over 1.2 billion domestic

We'll know for sure by MLK[/quote]


Excuse me but how is it biased? I was using Shack's own criteria, not mine...[/quote]

I guess he was being biased himself to make Avatar a success[/quote]

You guessed right. I am biased to make Avatar a success... and I am damn good at it because it is happening. LOL.

Excuse me but how is it biased? I was using Shack's own criteria, not mine...[/quote]

I guess he was being biased himself to make Avatar a success[/quote]

You guessed right. I am biased to make Avatar a success... and I am damn good at it because it is happening. LOL. [/quote]

I am with you in this

Did you guys join by searching for Avatar on Google? Or are you from BOM or another movie site?

Edit: 16,000, woot.

16,000 woot for what???

I didn't join searching for Avatar I just happened to be tracking WOKJ for quite sometime now but Avatar made me tempt and I joined just a couple of days back

I think Avatar will end up with about 63m this weekend and a nice 550m total.



I'm a BOM'er.

Cool. WOKJ does have several guests (usually just as many members on), so we lost one of those regular guests and picked up a regular member it seems.

I asked because when a big movie opens, new members tend to join, but I don't recall so many joining before Avatar opened.

(16,000 = post count)


Edit: Another new member. Neato.

Well for me this was initially only for checking up the numbers and how the films are faring that used to be very occasionally on weekdays. But know after I have joined this seems to be fun and I am loving every minute of it. Getting to know others making friends and ofcourse talking about a common hobby movies makes it even better than Avatar's visual experience

After the first week, Avatar led Titanic by $85 mil.
After the second week, Avatar led Titanic by $160 mil.
After the third weekend, Avatar will lead Titanic by $192 mil.
It shouldn't fall behind in the dailies until after the fourth weekend. By then it should be over $210 mil ahead which would put it over $400 mil, easy.

Woah! The big ass boat is going down!

Yes that indeed is impressive but I still would love to see the drops this Monday to decide. I guess I can than be 100% confident about Avatar's Legs. Do remember that I have predicted 602M but then I would love to have this film make more money and make it another benchmark like Titanic. Also considering a decade has passed it would be great to have this movie pass 700-800M domestic

lots of 3d sellouts. i see avatar staying flat today. put me down for 25m saturday.

Same here. Among all the other sites that I was checking about Avatar predictions, this thread in WOKJ seemed to have the nicest people. I confess that I've been following the posts before joining for a while, enough to see that people here have respect for each other. You know how much hate is out there. But here I saw posts of different opinions being respectful and not insulting.
I bet there are many readers like me thinking about joining as I did.

That's the main reason why I left the BOM forum and joined here a couple of years ago...

Anyway, my Saturday prediction: $25,425,000

My Saturday prediction

$27.4m

Yes it'll increase

BOM's friday numbers thread is a festival of stupidity.

I'll say a tiny drop to 24M for Avatar.

$25.08M Saturday

Saturday- $25.7 mil

Deadline just upped the Friday estimate to 25 mil.

BOM still no numbers yet, But it looks like a record 3rd weekend is a no-brainer at this point.

I found this site through google when I saw Avatar's first Monday box office and did a search for it. I'm rooting for this movie so it's cool to find like-minded folks to discuss it with.

I predict an amazing $29.6 million all-time high for Saturday. It'll beat last Saturday's record of $28.3 by 5%.


According to deadline.com, after 13 days last Wednesday Avatar was $268.9 million domestic and $794.1 million WW. Factoring in that Avatar was finally released in China, Argentina, and Uruguay (source BOM), I predict that today Saturday, after 16 days in the theaters, Avatar will cross the $1billion mark and pass TDK to become the 4th largest WW Box Office ever, leaving behind all doubts of passing TDK or not!!!

And it hasn't opened in Italy yet

http://www.deadline.com/hollywood/avatar-to-cross-800m-worldwide-today-leads-total-500m-final-week-of-2009/