UPDATE: Big Blue – AVATAR takes in $236.5 million worldwide, breaks December opening record
While the U.S. box office may have been down because of the blizzard on the East Coast, Avatar managed to pull in $232 million worldwide, a record for an original work. The $73 million domestic gross combined with $159 million overseas means that Avatar is now a certified blockbuster. Word of mouth is going to be strong with this one. Combine that with some of the biggest metros in the U.S. remaining untapped markets and the coming wave of holiday moviegoers, and you get a movie that’s going to be huge for weeks to come.
UPDATE: Looks like the snow didn’t keep away as many moviegoers as 2oth Century Fox expected. The final domestic tally for Avatar‘s opening weekend is $77.3 million, according to Variety. That’s just enough to give Avatar the biggest December opening of all-time, ahead of the $77.2 million opening for I Am Legend in 2007. That brings the film’s worldwide opening total to $236.5 million
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