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Friday Box Office (1/8/2010): $13.3M for Avatar; Headed For 4th Weekend Record; Daybreakers Tops Among New Releases With $5.9M

Avatar took in a estimated 1st place $13.275 million on Friday, pushing the film’s domestic cume to an estimated $393.815 million through just 22 days of release.  The film is poised to pass $400M domestically today (Saturday) and become the top-grossing film of 2009 this weekend (currently held by Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen at [...]

Weekend Box Office (January 1-3, 2010): Avatar Tops Again With $68.491M, Sherlock Holmes 2nd With $36.612M, Alvin 2 3rd With $35.190M

Heading into the weekend, the record for the biggest 3rd weekend gross for a film was held by 2002’s Spider-Man.  Avatar was expected to surpass that number this weekend, but the film easily crushed it with an incredible $68.491 million.  That was a decline of just 9.4% over last week’s impressive — and box office [...]

Weekend Box Office Estimates (January 1-3, 2010): Avatar Crushes 3rd Weekend Record With $68.3M; Passes $350M Domestic in 17 Days; Fastest Ever to $1B Worldwide

UPDATE: The weekend actuals have been posted here.

The records continue to fall. According to studio estimates,  Avatar once again exceeded expectations with an estimated $68.3 million in its third weekend (-9.7%), pushing its domestic cume to an incredible estimated $352.111 million through just 17 days of release (2nd fastest ever to $350 million). [...]

Wednesday/Thursday/Friday Box Office: Est. $25.2M Friday for Avatar; Will Break 3rd Weekend Record With Expected $60-65M

Coming off continued strong weekday performances on Monday and Tuesday, Avatar again grossed more on Wednesday (12/30/2009) and Thursday (12/31/2009) than it did the week before.

The 3D sci-fi epic from director James Cameron grossed $18.466 million on Wednesday (+12% from the Wednesday prior) and an estimated $14.925 million on New Years Eve (+34% from the Thursday [...]

Tuesday Box Office (12/29/2009): Avatar ($18.291M) Passes $250M Domestic; Alvin 2 ($12.532M) Passes $100M, Sherlock Holmes 3rd With Est. $10.24M

Avatar held steady on Tuesday as it passed the $250 million mark domestically with an impressive $18.291 million.  That’s a decline of just 5.8% from the day prior and an incredible increase of 13.7% from the Tuesday prior. Coupled with last Tuesday’s performance ($16.086 million), Avatar now holds the 2nd and 3rd biggest non-opening Tuesday [...]

Monday Box Office (12/28/2009): Avatar Grosses $19.418M; 2nd Biggest Non-Holiday Monday Ever

Avatar shows no sign of slowing down anytime soon.  The 3D sci-fi epic from James Cameron decreased just 19.9% from Sunday and improved an incredible 18.5% from its first Monday to gross $19,418,139 for the day.

As noted, Avatar now holds the mark for the second-highest non-Holiday Monday in box office history (behind The Dark Knight [...]

Weekend Box Office (12/25-12/27): Avatar ($75.617M) Breaks 2nd Weekend Record, Sherlock Holmes 2nd ($62.304M), Alvin 2 3rd ($48.875M)

Avatar had another remarkable weekend for 20th Century Fox.  The 3D sci-fi epic from director James Cameron pulled in an extraordinary $75,617,183.  That’s a new record for a second weekend and down just 1.8% from the weekend prior ($77.025 million). Avatar grossed $23,095,046 on Friday, grew 10.8% on Saturday to $28,274,406 (a new best for [...]

Avatar Back on Top Saturday & Sunday; Weekend Estimated at $75.0M, Easily Ahead of Sherlock Holmes ($65.38M) and Alvin 2 ($50.2M) [UPDATED: Avatar Adds $145M From Overseas]

Avatar continues its impressive run at the box office.  The film opened the weekend in a solid 2nd place on Friday with an estimated $23.55 million (Sherlock Holmes finished slightly ahead on Friday with $24.775M).  But it managed to build on that Friday performance by 21% on Saturday with a new high for the film [...]