new moon hit a new level beyond massive, gargantuanly frontloaded would be more fitting.

ROTK dropped pretty hard from it's 3rd weekend in the States naturally, Avatar will do better given the higher ticket prices, slightly lower running time and the novelty factor of 3D.

Well if it wasn't for IA3 in July then there wouldn't have been a rapid increase in 3D screens overseas....

And China.

awesome

Argentina 1 January 2010
China 2 January 2010
Georgia 2 January 2010
Italy 15 January 2010

Definately, Ice Age 3 and Avatar are literally opening the floodgates for 3D........just liike IMAX, expect opening records to fall and grossers becoming higher comparatively. Toy Story 3 and Shrek 4 are going to be perfect barometers of this.

They need to still perfect 3D for faster moving images, when that happens, expect all uber blockbusters to start coming in 3D>

avatar will do much better sub 20% drop is coming up

Hell fuck, through in $50m+ for China and $10m+ in ARgentina. '

Mark's prediction might not be too far off......this movie is madness

Avatar will drop in it's 3rd weekend around 40% i'm guessing....but this movie continues to post bigger grossers and better drops so who knows. $400m is a lock, $500m is a high possibility....

It would be outrageous if this can be The Dark Knight domestically....last year, i thought that no movie will beat TDK until perhaps the next TDK...LOL

the film is immense this is new level not reached before.

It probably will but it's still going to slow down considerably, unfortunately, with people going back to school or work.

WOM is immense, no way the film falls over 30%

I updated the countries left for avatar to release. Apparently it has yet to be released in Georgia.

It doesn't have the 2nd biggest weekend of 2009 (it'll be 8th or so), it has the second biggest 5-day release of 2009.

Well with China and Argentina, next weekend's drop is going to be hardly anything at all, i'm predicting $125m+ now next weekend.

Ok, if you read it that way...i like combining 5-Day grossers.......BTW - does anyone know what the 2-Day gross is?

3.7m

I don't have grossers in Georgia so can't give an example of a blockbuster opening....though i'm thinking it'll be more like in 100ks then 1million.

With January 1st falling on friday hence inflating the weekend it might drop less than that.

Is that all for Saturday and Sunday?......it means that it dropped pretty hard from the opening day then and registered like 75% of it's run in the first 3-Day.....are you sure about this?

Woops folks....i was actually referring to the 4th weekend.....once holidays are over..

I wished I was an extra earning 0.01% on this movie

Oh, I thought you asked what the 2-D gross was.

The weekend gross should be around 6 or 7m. It was actually pretty frontloaded. This Is It opened to $1.1m on Wednesday and made $10m over the 5-days (5.8m 2-day), and Harry Potter 6 opened to $3.6m on Wednesday and made $18m over the 5-day (10.5m 2-day).