Although Avatar‘s $3.793 million Wednesday marks the first time the 3D sci-fi epic has dipped below the $4M mark, it was a drop of only 9.5% from Tuesday. The film’s domestic cume now stands at $512.852M, and it continues to be on pace to pass The Dark Knight ($533.345M) and Titanic‘s $600.788M to become #1 on the all-time best domestic chart. More analysis and the daily chart after the jump.
Worldwide, Avatar stands at an incredible $1.686 billion, also well on its way to beating Titanic‘s record ($1.843B). Over the course of the last week alone (Thursday, January 14th-Wednesday, January 20th), Avatar added $266 million worldwide.
Finishing in second place for the day was the Hughes brothers’ The Book of Eli which held up well on its first Wednesday, dropping 18.3% to $2.033M ($42.959M domestic cume). And in third place was Peter Jackson’s The Lovely Bones with $734,680 ($22.06M domestic cume / $29.162M worldwide cume).
Daily Box Office Chart for Wednesday, January 20, 2010
| Rank | Movie | Wednesday Gross | Percent Change from Tuesday | Theaters |
| 1 | Avatar | $3,792,807 | -9.5% | 3,285 |
| 2 | The Book of Eli | $2,033,108 | -18.3% |
3,111 |
| 3 | The Lovely Bones | $734,680 | -22.5% |
2,563 |
| 4 | It’s Complicated | $722,025 | -8.4% | 2,670 |
| 5 | Sherlock Holmes | $688,355 | -14.6% |
3,173 |
| 6 | Up in the Air | $452,287 | -10.9% | 2,107 |
| 7 | The Blind Side | $409,278 | -8.5% |
2,408 |
| 8 | Daybreakers | $391,644 | -12.0% |
2,523 |
| 9 | Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel | $383,238 | -29.8% | 3,296 |
| 10 | Leap Year | $364,535 | -14.6% |
2,512 |
Source: Box Office Mojo
