China's opening week is incredible. Any idea how many of the 2474 screens are IMAX/3D?

Germany generated $9.9 million from 994 screens for a cume of $73.4 million

It increased!?!?!

japan looks meh. wasn't it around 40m as of last sunday. so it made under 10m over last week.

A proud look back at the international run:

1st weekend: $165.5m
2nd weekend: $152.8m (-8 %) $413.2m total
3rd weekend: $136.8m (-10 %) $676.9m total
4th weekend: $143.0m (+5 %) $906.0m total

I think with Italy opening AVATAR can squeeze in one more $100m international weekend...

Holy Crap, this is going to slaughter Titanic, who ever thought this could happen. I certainly didn't. The international grosses are amazing. With Italy still to come.

If the extraordinary heights of Titanic’s final box office once seemed unattainable, Avatar proved it is more than up for the challenge internationally at least as it climbed 4.5% in its fourth weekend to gross a further $143m and raise the tally to an estimated $906.2m.

Active on 14,839 screens in 111 countries, the Fox International juggernaut easily secured its place in history as the second biggest international launch behind James Cameron’s legendary romance from 1997. Titanic amassed $1.24bn overseas and at this rate Avatar has a real shot at overtaking it. Combined with $429m in North America, where it also stayed top for the fourth weekend, Avatar’s global tally stands at $1.331bn.

Weekend business was powered by a truly astonishing result from China, which delivered the biggest opening week in history on $40.2m from 2,474 screens and the biggest single day at the Chinese box office of $8.3m recorded on Saturday January 9.

France must also take the plaudits as the country became the first outside of North America to cross $100m and currently stands at $100.5m following an $11.7m weekend haul. Avatar ranks as the fifth biggest release behind Bienvenue Chez Les Ch’tis, Titanic, Asterix: Cleopatra and Les Visiteurs.

IMAX screens generated a further $4.6m and combined with the North American cumulative total to propel Avatar to $91m worldwide, easily passing The Polar Express’ $71m final total to become the biggest grossing global IMAX release. IMAX Filmed Entertained president and CEO Greg Foster said he expected to cross $100m this week.

Sony Pictures Releasing International’s disaster movie 2012 crossed $600m thanks to a $1.9m session that raised the cumulative gross to $600.7m and $40.5m in Japan.
The romantic comedy Did You Hear About The Morgans? grossed $8.4m from 1,885 in 18 markets to boost the early tally to $15.6m. It opened in Germany on $2.3m from 500 screens.

Universal/UPI’s It’s Complicated grossed $8m from 1,700 venues in 17 territories to raise the romantic comedy’s early number to $23.4m and the result was driven by a strong $3.3m launch in second place in Australia from 240 sites.
The Prince And The Frog added $5.5m from 3,187 screens in 25 territories for $56m through Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures International.
Old Dogs grossed $2.5m from 952 in 15 for $30m, while the sci-fi thriller Surrogates was back in action in Italy and Chile, adding a combined $1.5m for $73m. A Christmas Carol added $1.2m from 1,250 in 40 for $185.7m, and Up stands at $430m and is the second biggest Pixar performer overseas.

Full report to follow.


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China's opening week is incredible. Any idea how many of the 2474 screens are IMAX/3D?

TWO FUCKING BILLION DOLLARS!!!

Arch, I doubt this will crack $500m worldwide. I hope I'm wrong though.

$500m is at the very low end I think. Overseas alone, this will do $350m+ easily and I can't see the domestic gross lower than $200m.

I see around $460 million overseas. Thanks to Asia.

I fully expect this to dissapoint OW each and every territory. This is gonna make most of its money the old fashioned way i.e. WOM. But by then it might be too late. Not expecting more than 350M WW

Even if it disappoints at the box-office, it still should be able to gross $350m+ worldwide... easily. Not sure why you're deciding to low-ball so much.

That looks out of reach, thought I wouldn't be surprised to see $600-620m.

I could actually see $700m+ overseas in theory and depending on how it does in China/Japan, but I think #2 WW would be a harder row to hoe.

$620 million is the minimum now.

I'm thinking it will do a billion overseas, France and Germany will contribute at least $100m each...

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

I am predicting around 750,000-800,000 admissions opening weekend and then around 3-3.5 million in total.

But just as in the U.S. the long run is more important than the opening weekend and if wom is good I expect it to beat TERMINATOR 2 (4.7m admissions)...

I don't.

Yes, I have, I loved it and WoM will be very good (I went with four people and three of them loved it). I am also going to see it again and maybe even a third time (maybe). But it is opening with 800,000 or so...so just excellent WoM isn't going to cut it. I mean many films have great WoM but ti approach even 7 million admissions (which I suppose what it'll roughly need to pass IA3 in gross) is quite a stretch. In admissions it's not passing it either.

Just two years ago KEINOHRHASEN opened with 451,058 tickets on its way to 6.3m the week before xmas.
Plus, I heard that in some places Sunday was better than Saturday so my 800,000 estimate might be a bit low...
I'm pretty sure that AVATAR will do more than $700m internationally... and I'm pretty confident that AVATAR will become the No. 2 grosser worldwide...

Well, I don't know whether I'm man enough to withstand Dr. Lecter's wrath, but I think 9m admissions is possible...

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

Hmm, around 3.8-3.9 million until January 10th and probably around 5.5 million overall, depending on Cloudy's exposure. I don't think this film will benefit that much from the Oscars unless it actually wins BP.