Ya i heard that there will be lots of snow this weekend and entire next week in North america and europe.

Yeah, it's sounding increasingly like this one could have good legs everywhere.

Is that the Wednesday or the Thursday figure?

If it's a Thursday figure, then it's definately a worry because the opening day records held by LOTRs and New Moon are around the $4m-$5m mark.

Wednesday...

Nah i believe that was wednesday previews

Those are not France numbers, those are Paris only...

Yeah lol i meant that

Then it's really good, because Thursday's showings were almost close to SOLD out in the evenings. Yep, AUD$8m+ is assured.

My overseas opening prediction: $142 million

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/enterta ... ening.html

"Avatar" will likely gross about $80 million from Friday through Sunday in the U.S. and Canada, according to several people who have seen pre-release public surveys. Thanks to largely positive reviews, however, the people said the movie could easily outperform what polling currently indicates and end up even higher.

People close to the studio said executives are concerned about managing expectations for their costly picture going into the weekend. Fox's domestic distribution president Bruce Snyder said he expects the movie to open to $50 million to $60 million.

Overseas, where the James Cameron-directed 3-D spectacle is opening this week in 106 countries, including every major market except Italy, Japan and China, it will likely sell more than $100 million worth of tickets and could easily collect around $150 million.

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http://www.screendaily.com/news/distrib ... 80.article

Few films arrive surrounded with as much anticipation as James Cameron’s 3D epic sci-fi adventure and Fox executives will be seeking to capitalise on the positive early word to make a killing in the first weekend and should cross the $2bn mark in overseas ticket sales by the end of next week if not before.

Cameron’s long-gestating opus will play on a total of 17,163 international screens, 5,354 of them 3D, of which 81 are IMAX 3D. Avatar arrives on 13,737 screens in the day-and-date territories, of which 3,935 are 3D, 60 of them on IMAX.

Results are certain to be strong virtually everywhere, with the major numbers coming from France on December 16, followed a day later by Germany, Russia, Mexico, Australia, South Korea, New Zealand, Singapore, Holland, Hong Kong, Switzerland and Thailand.

Avatar touches down on December 18 in the UK, Spain, Brazil, Sweden, Taiwan, Austria and India. It opens in Japan opens next weekend and in China in January

Doing quite well on Friday here in Melbourne, sales are stronger than yesterday evening.

I see it doing something like $1m (Wed) + $2.5m (Thu) + $3m (Fri) + $3.5m (sat) + $2.5m (sun). = AUD$12.5m (5-Day). This is huge alright.

Let's talk when it makes this much. Irony of Fate 2 was a fucking phenomenon. 2012 is currently the highest grossing Hollywood live action film and it's gonna finish with around $37+ m, and it was way more appealing than Avatar. The record number of screens doesn't mean anything. IMAX and 3D ticket prices to Avatar were increased, to the point where it becomes from just expensive to really expensive, so I'm not sure many people will take those theaters by storm.

Also, Irony Of Fate 2 was a New Year's movie in a New Year's holidays. You can't go better from that. Plus Avatar has Sherlock Holmes on New Year's holidays. That will be really tough to beat.

First day sales in admissions are exactly on the same level as 2012 here in Germany...

how many tickets did 2012 sell during its ow. hopefully avatar has a better im and hold better.

Avatar will certainly hold better than 2012.

First of all the reception is much stronger.

Secondly, in its opening weekend Avatar is going to be very male-drive, but WOM will reach out for women in the following weeks. There's a good chance that on average females will like the movie more, but the marketing just didn't make them that interested.

1m...

A better IM will be difficult because of capacity (two thirds go to the 3D version) and because of the snow storm today and tomorrow...

http://newteevee.com/2009/12/18/avatar- ... wTeeVee%29

Great job by FOX

Avatar looks to be heading into the footsteps of the Lotr films. Its doing very very well in English Speaking countries and in Northern Countries...


Avatar scores the 5th biggest opening day ever in Australia with a 3.091 million US opening day.

http://www.the-numbers.com/interactive/ ... ewsID=4686

Wow, Avatar looks it will hit 500 million overseas...

Wow, that's huge, this is on track to gross north of AUD$12m now, very good.

So far you not too far of the mark .933wed (previews post 5pm) 2.541 thurs, 2.6 Fri

Oh, so the US$3m included Wednesday previews as well, i thought it was just Thursdays. Anyway, this is solid and has Boxing Day ahead of it which is good. I can't see anything opening on Boxing Day which will affect this greatly. Sherlocke Holmes is the only challenger left overseas.

Anthing from uk or other countries?

this was posted at bom. any comparisons.