While last week Avatar was snuggly fitting into its number five spot in the Worldwide Boxoffice of All Time, it has since cruised right past Pirates and Hobbits alike to cozy right up against the last film Cameron made to land at second place of all time. In 20 days.
Boxoffice Mojo charts it out:
ALL TIME WORLDWIDE
1. Titanic $1,842,879,955
2. Avatar $1,131,752,464
3. Return of the King $1,119,110,941
4. Dead Man’s Chest $1,066,179,725
5. The Dark Knight $1,001,921,825
Yup, so there it is. 20 days.
It still has a bit of a stretch to go to earn a spot in the Top 10 Domestic list. Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith is currently guarding that spot with a respectable $380million.
But what do we have coming up? Yeah, Avatar’s 4th weekend on the big screen. And it is setting its sights on that next goal with its current $352million.
So all it has to do is rake in some local $28m to take the spot. And in the first three weeks it has easily been bringing in the dough, and has shown only modest declines in boxoffice. Its very achievable.
I was skeptical about each benchmark this film breaks, so I am done doubting. Nothing this film does surprises me anymore.
