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Russia is a very important market for Avatar. If it doesn't do well opening weekend then it is fucked because Sherlock will open huge then.

Movies like this should make a caining in Russia, no? What's so special about Sherlocke holmes?

Sherlocke Holmes i see playing to more mature audiences, and should do similar to National Treasure numbers at best i think.

For the first time the entire country is having holidays from December 31st to January 10th, Non-Stop, so event films will benefit hugely.

Huh? That's not the first time.

First day Paris(today) 56031 tickets(66 screens)

2012 98720 tickets(was a national holiday)/New Moon 83769 tickets.

"Meanwhile an AMC Entertainment spokesman tells EW: “Right now, Avatar is selling well, and is on about the same pace as we saw with Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen."

Advance ticketing for James Cameron's sci-fi actioner "Avatar" is skewing heavily toward male moviegoers, but sales are going so strongly that it shouldn't represent a problem. The pricey Fox pic's theatrical run is targeting a broad range of demos, but online ticketer MovieTickets said Wednesday that a whopping 78% of "Avatar" ticket buyers have been males.

MovieTickets said 89% of advance sales have been for performances in 3D venues.

Advance ticketing also is going strong overseas. An Imax theater in the British Film Institute on London's South Bank reports record sales for "Avatar," outpacing even the heady presales rate for 2008's "The Dark Knight."

[Fandango] said its advance sales for "Avatar" are outpacing three sci-fi actioners from the past several months: "Star Trek," "2012" and "Terminator Salvation."

mark(insidekino) is expecting only 800-850k ow admissions in germany

i hope it can crack 1 million but I won't be surprised. WOM needs to be really good if it wants to do $500+M overseas.

I am sure with Christmas legs it can do that.

I just learned that 210,000 out of the 320,000 admissions in France were 3D...

Dec. 17 (Bloomberg) -- “Avatar,” James Cameron’s 3-D science-fiction movie, is set to break Russia’s box office record, judging by viewer interest and screen bookings, industry research group Booker’s Bulletin said.

“It will definitely surpass the $50 million record,” said Boris Babushkin, editor of Moscow-based Booker’s magazine, by phone today from Yekaterinburg, central Russia.

The movie opened in Moscow last night and will play on a record 1,330 screens across the former Soviet Union, not counting Ukraine and the Baltic states, said Sergei Lavrov, chief statistician at Kinobusiness Today magazine. Lavrov expects “Avatar” to pull in $60 million, mainly from Russia.

News Corp.’s Twentieth Century Fox and partners Dune Entertainment and Ingenious Film Partners have spent an estimated $380 million to make and market “Avatar,” which was shot using a dual-camera 3-D system that Cameron, 55, invented with partner Vince Pace after the director’s success with “Titanic.” That film, released in 1997, is the all-time top- grossing film with $1.8 billion, according to Box Office Mojo.

Only about 300 of the 1,330 screens that will show “Avatar” in Russia and neighboring countries are equipped for 3-D, which may hurt sales, Lavrov said. The current records for both screens and ticket sales is held by the 2007 domestic comedy “Irony of Fate 2,” which played in 1,100 theaters and grossed more than $49 million, he said.

Paris Thursday 44037 tickets vs. Wednesday 56031 tickets

That is only 21% drop. New moon and 2012 both had 48 and 50% drop respectively. Looking good in france.


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