9 million admissions in Germany?! I think not...

PARIS




wow it increases on second Wednesday !!!

Well, only 7.6m more to go...

How much did the LOTR pics make in their weeks leading up to NY compared to afterwards percentage wise.

Might be a good indication.

Wait, WHAT? $100m+ in Germany and France???

Well it seems more plausible for France than Germany at this point, but it's obviously way too early for both to be making those kinda predictions.

Even if it is fun to think about.

That would make it the first film since Titanic and only the second one overall to gross $100m in both markets. Actually, I can't think of any other $100m+ release in Germany since Titanic.


I have no words, really. But this is thrilling. And I'm happy it's an original film, and a great one at that, this time. And no fucking chipmunks in sight...

There have been none in Germany. ROTK and (I think) IA3 are right below $90m.

Yeah, the German box office this decade has been shit, just like Japan's. France and the UK have been troopers. Unfortunately, for the wrong films (Mamma Mia, URGH).

Where is Avatar headed in the UK?

Japan seems will give Avatar 100 million if Hp6 got 93 million and Avatar opened bigger than Hp6.

I'd still be cautious about calling 100m+ for Avatar right now. It did indeed beat Potter's Wednesday with $4.38m, but there's still this:



Say 60% of Potter's opening day audience were women, that's 60% of the tickets sold at half-price for the opening day, a very significant amount. Someone can try to do the math if 60% paid half-price, what would that have been at full price. I wish I could find admissions.

Just trying to keep expectations down a little if it would fail to hit $100m. Let's hope it does.

$19.24 for a ticket, yikes. Japan's mad-expensive.

If they'd paid full price the opening day would have been roughly $5.7m.

Whoops, when I say let's hope it does, I mean let's hope it does hit 100m, not fail to hit 100m.

Thanks.

But then we have to ask, "how much smaller would the female audience have been opening day if they had to pay full price?" I'd assume most would have shown up anyway, but there could have been some who wouldn't. But it seemed to be quite frontloaded either way because screendaily, while just a single source, were expecting a $27m 5-day after the first day, which it didn't come close to.

And in Avatar's case, it opened on a holiday, but I'm not sure if that's a good or bad thing. I don't really notice it helping much in the years the 23rd was on a saturday or sunday at BOM, so perhaps Avatar's opening day isn't inflated.. maybe it's the opposite. Who knows.

Just gotta wait for more numbers. And when they do come in, we can compare:

HP6 (5-day) - Japan – $18.1m (¥1.7bn) and 1.4m admissions from 843 screens, beating HP5 by 8%.

also, i love that japan has a ladies' day at the theatres LOL

this was posted in bom.

New overseas number 219,769,153
http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=avatar.htm

increased on tuesday int.

So far so good...

Opening week in Germany even better than expected:
1,475,000-1,500,000 admissions...

Grosses are blowing up everywhere, this is pretty awesome.

I gotta feeling this one will easily hit $50m, it may even challenge Titanic actually for the all-time record at this rate. It still has 1 monster week of holiday fueled grosses to come with Boxing Day just around the corner.

Just saw Avatar in cinemas today, Chirstmas Eve. 6:20pm session - 2nd last session at the theatre. Was about 40-50% full.

Thoroughly enjoyed the movie. Thank god really because it's so much better than what the trailers made it out to be.

The visuals were awesome and the key pulling power of this movie. I've never been blown away by visuals to this degree, this is a totally new experience and definately the way cinema is heading.

The story itself while charming was quite cliched, though expected. It did have some emotional elements but did not have the weight of a true epic movie i felt.

The score while touching was quite dissapointing. There is not one thematic piece that is memorable, no true defining score. It's solid nonetheless, but you can't remember it.

I was a tad dissapointed in the final battle scene. It had the drama, but lacked the spectacle. I'm sure they'll bring it in the next installment (they normally do) with bigger and better gunships.

Throughout the movie i kept thinking to myself, what if LOTR was in 3D, it would be my dream come true. LOL, fingers cross that day may now come.

Avatar on 3D will surely pull in 2nd viewings, you can't experience it at home so you would have to see it in cinemas if you want the same mind-blowing experience.

Overall:

Visuals = 10/10
Story = 7.5/10
Emotional Impact = 7.5/10
Overall = 8.5/10

Definately one of this years best and truely deserves to live among the highest grossing pics.