A blizzard with a foot of snow in half of Germany melted away the German admissions tally to 730,000-750,000... Still, AVATAR is at 3.9m admissions after 17 days and fifth biggest movie of the year (probably will be No. 3 by next weekend)...

I believe that 49% drop in UK is a mistake, shouldn't it be an increase?

And still no Japan numbers, strange...

Since Germany provides box office and ticket sales, here's a look at the average ticket prices for 2009's blockbusters (as of December 27th)

In Euros:

6.49 IA3
7.27 HP6
7.45 A&D
5.77 WICKIE UND DIE STARKEN MÄNNER
7.77 2012
7.14 NEW MOON
9.67 AVATAR
7.08 ZWEIOHRKÜKEN

In Australia its going to be the no.1 film of all time.....easily.

If the average AVATAR ticket price holds and the exchange rate stays at $1.43 than AVATAR will need 9.4m admissions to match TITANIC's $130m gross (which sold 18.1m tickets)...

News, entertainment news at least, has been incredible slow for the past week. Eiga didn't even have a new article for anything between Dec. 28-Jan. 3rd. Even Yahoojp had very little news for anything during that time. Since it's a holiday, I suppose. Weekly anime/manga releases, music sales, etc. haven't been released either.

Definately, It's already above AUD$47m i think and only needs $10m to beat Titanic. Hardly a difficult task from now until late-Jan when the school holidays ends.

Likely total is north of AUD$60m, first ever. magical

Definetly north of 60mil, if its not at 50mil with monday definetly tuesday

1-Avatar weekend $aus9.660mil +10% 48.427mil
least time to 40mil 15 days(minus xmas day&wed night prev), Record 3rd wkend, 4th highest grossing film

Archangel though your analysis looks pretty damn good but I heard from someone else in this thread that Dead Man's Chest took 63 days to cross 1B while ROTK took 67. Titanic made it in 73 days.

Avatar is all that matters right!!

The BBC has mentioned that Avatar has broken past $1B like twelve times in 2 hrs now. Never saw something like this.

Avatar smashes $1bn box office speed record

Avatar has become the fastest movie ever to achieve $1bn (£625.6m) in ticket sales around the world.

Distributors 20th Century Fox say it has earned more than $350m (£217m) in the US and more than $670m (£415m) in the rest of the world in only 17 days.

The 3D science fiction blockbuster was directed by James Cameron, who also made Titanic, the best selling movie of all time.

The latest figures make Avatar already the fourth-biggest film ever made.

Ahead of it are Titanic ($1.8bn; £1.1bn), The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King ($1.12bn; £695m) and Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest ($1.07bn; £664m).

Avatar - about a disabled marine who infiltrates a race of giant blue aliens - combines live action with digitally-enhanced performances.

It was reportedly the most expensive film ever made, with a budget of at least $300m (£186m).

Expensive tickets

"This is like a freight train out of control," said 20th Century Fox distribution executive Bert Livingston. "It just keeps on going.

"I think everybody has to see Avatar once, even people who don't normally go to the movies, they've heard about it and are saying, 'I have to see it'," he said.

"Then there are those people seeing it multiple times."

Avatar has now reached most parts of the globe. It opened in China on Saturday and is due to reach Italy - its final market - on 15 January.

The huge box office takings are partly down to the higher cost of tickets for 3D performances, says the BBC's Peter Bowes in Los Angeles.

But as Hollywood enters its traditional slow season, with few big films due for release, Avatar is likely to dominate the box office for several more weeks, he adds.

The BBC has mentioned that Avatar has broken past $1B like twelve times in 2 hrs now. Never saw something like this.