Avatar took in $3.24 million on Monday, pushing its domestic cume to $554.982 million. Together with its record foreign gross of $1.304 billion, Avatar has grossed an incredible $1.859 billion worldwide which is a new record (besting the $1.843 billion grossed by Titanic). Even more remarkable is that it did it through just 39 days in domestic release.
Avatar is just $45.806 million within the #1 all-time domestic record held by Titanic ($600.788M) and will pass that mark sometime before next weekend. Avatar was able to surpass Titanic‘s worldwide total before breaking its domestic total due to a stronger domestic/overseas ratio. At the moment, Avatar‘s split is 70.1% / 29.9% in favor of Foreign versus Domestic grosses. Titanic‘s split was 67.4% / 32.6%.
It’s no longer off-base to declare $2 billion worldwide (with at least $700M coming from domestic receipts) a lock. in fact, when all is said and done I think the final number will be closer to $2.3-2.5 billion! Head on over the jump for the daily chart.
Daily Box Office Chart for Monday, January 25, 2010
| Rank | Movie | Monday Gross |
Percent Change from Sunday | Theaters |
| 1 | Avatar | $3,240,192 | -66.2% | 3,141 |
| 2 | The Book of Eli | $1,309,143 | -60.3% |
3,111 |
| 3 | Legion | $1,272,282 | -65.8% |
2,476 |
| 4 | The Tooth Fairy | $647,233 | -82.6% |
3,344 |
| 5 | The Lovely Bones | $505,718 | -73.8% |
2,571 |
| 6 | Sherlock Holmes | $484,342 | -64.4% |
2,670 |
| 7 | It’s Complicated | $448,695 | -64.2% |
2,301 |
| 8 | Extraordinary Measures | $430,013 | -62.7% | 2,549 |
| 9 | Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel | $343,975 | -80.5% | 2,973 |
| 10 | The Blind Side | $304,222 | -63.3% | 1,932 |
Source: Box Office Mojo
