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[jett]

edit: nm about that

SLJ being at the top is fucking hilarious, when all of those are minimal two-bit characters.

 

[Johnny Utah]

Realistically, Will Smith, Mike Meyers, Tom Hanks and Harrison Ford.

 

[FuturusX]

Realistically, Will Smith, Mike Meyers, Tom Hanks and Harrison Ford.

But..but did you adjust for inflation?

 

[SCULLIBUNDO]

I know Sculli has mentioned it a few times as have I, but I found this video surfing youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYaaE1HEykw&feature=related. It really does show how close the cast became while filming this movie.

I actually hadn't posted or even seen that interview, so thankyou! That was great and I love Zoe's laugh. Great chemistry there.

 

[racerx]

But does anyone else think she looks dangerously thin?

 

[GhaleonEB]

I actually hadn't posted or even seen that interview, so thankyou! That was great and I love Zoe's laugh. Great chemistry there.

I saw it when it first came out, but watching it now I kinda laughed when she said her favorite movie alien was E.T. - since on Leno she said that's what she was called in high school. It must have really bugger her. :lol

 

[Combine]

Maybe I'm late on this. But Reuters has apparently called it worldwide: http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN2414728620100124

UPDATE 2-'Avatar' replaces 'Titanic' in record books
* "Avatar" earns $1.84 billion worldwide

* Sci-fi film biggest international release of all time

* Harrison Ford's new film bombs (Recasts, updates foreign sales for "Avatar" and details of new releases in North America)

LOS ANGELES, Jan 24 (Reuters) - "Titanic" just hit an iceberg named "Avatar.".

And there it is folks.

 

[Veidt]

I'm so glad i made this motherfucker :lol

It happened folks. It's all done. Cameron takes all :lol

 

[Kaako]

Nicely done Jibril. :lol :lol
History in the making...wow.

 

[Veidt]

Now would be an appropriate moment to make a real * crow serving thread.

*= YOUR REAL LEGS

 

[SCULLIBUNDO]

Somebody needs to fill that rowboat with Batman and Johnny Depp.

 

[MaGlock]

Working at a movie theater for the past 2 years i can say that i've never seen anything like this movie. It may not have had the crowd that TDK had opening night(which was absolutely ridiculous) but ive never seen a movie consistently draw people as well as this one. Always bet on cameron.

 

[Deleted member 22576]

The race to 2billion is on!

 

[Vic]

The race to 2billion is on!

Should last a week...

 

[GhaleonEB]

Maybe I'm late on this. But Reuters has apparently called it worldwide: http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN2414728620100124

And there it is folks.

From the article:

The News Corp (NWSA.O)-owned studio said "Avatar" has sold $1.841 billion worth of tickets worldwide during its unbroken six-week reign, and was a day or so away from surpassing the seemingly insurmountable $1.843 billion racked up by "Titanic" in 1997-1998.

That's the same tally as before - just a few million short. It won't be "official" until Tuesday, when Monday's earnings are reported. Reuters is jumping the gun.

Should last a week...

Yeah, won't be much of a race. It can drop 28% this week and still break $2b next weekend. :lol

 

[Rindain]

It used to be tradition for directors to take out ads in Variety when a movie broke the domestic boxoffice record, i.e. Lucas made an ad showing all the Star Wars characters sinking with the Titanic.

I wonder if Cameron will take out an ad showing himself beating his old record.

 

[Veidt]

Somebody needs to fill that rowboat with Batman and Johnny Depp.

 

[Sharp]

It used to be tradition for directors to take out ads in Variety when a movie broke the domestic boxoffice record, i.e. Lucas made an ad showing all the Star Wars characters sinking with the Titanic.

I wonder if Cameron will take out an ad showing himself beating his old record.

I feel like that would just piss people off and reaffirm the sense that he's way, way too arrogant. Anyway, wouldn't Spielberg have had to do the same thing, or did he never take number one from himself domestically?

 

[Vic]

:lol @ Sculli's assist

 

[Rindain]

I feel like that would just piss people off and reaffirm the sense that he's way, way too arrogant. Anyway, wouldn't Spielberg have had to do the same thing, or did he never take number one from himself domestically?

Not sure about Spielberg...did ET take the record from Jaws, or did Star Wars or Empire break it first?

 

[∀ Narayan]

Hell yeah BOYEEEEE!

 

[Kurtofan]

Maybe I'm late on this. But Reuters has apparently called it worldwide: http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN2414728620100124

And there it is folks.

Awesome!

 

[ryutaro's mama]

I'm so glad i made this motherfucker :lol

It happened folks. It's all done. Cameron takes all :lol

It's not over until 601.

FINISH THE FIGHT.

 

[shadowsdarknes]

saw avatar for a second time a couple days in a real 3D theater. my first time viewing avatar was in IMAX 3D sober, and i think real 3D was more impressive but that might have been the acid i took before hand. long story short my mind was blown and i believe avatar as a piece of art is partly unappreciated. my conclusion of avatar is pandora and the characters portrayed throughout the story is essentially displaying everything we humanity are not; the beautiful world working as one unit in peaceful harmony opposed to humanity struggling with obvious flaws like greed, impatience, resolving conflict immorally to continue down a path towards destroying ourselves and everything blocking our desire for power and wealth. my conclusion about why avatar is one of the greatest piece of art in cinema; sure the story is not twisting and turning and for the most part it is predictable, but those qualities do not define whether a story is great or not. the story is great because every character and every set piece is so well strung together that the predictable ending still delivers tremendous emotional impact and satisfaction. lastly, I am not sure cameron intended to oppositely reflect our worlds problems by imagining pandora, a familiar world, perfect in every way our world is not.

 

[Garcia]

Amazing !

No bets for the final international gross yet? How about 2.5 bill ?

I think I'll watch it again this week.

It'll be my 3rd time. Such an entertaining movie .

 

[Rindain]

Any "so good!" pics with avatar Jake eating the fruit?

 

[Vic]

Amazing !

No bets for the final international gross yet? How about 2.5 bill ?

I think I'll watch it again this week.

It'll be my 3rd time. Such an entertaining movie .

I say between 2.7 to 3 billions.

 

[khefka]

saw avatar for a second time a couple days in a real 3D theater. my first time viewing avatar was in IMAX 3D sober, and i think real 3D was more impressive but that might have been the acid i took before hand

It wasn't just the acid. I saw it for the first time in Imax 3d and, although the movie was enjoyable, was disappointed in the 3d. I went a second time to a real3d screening and was amazed at the effects. With imax, it was more about depth... nothing 'comes out of the screen' like it did with the real3d.

Avatar is the first 3d movie I've seen using this newer tech, but I'm definitely looking forward to more.

 

[Sharp]

I say between 2.7 to 3 billions.

So you're figuring on like $2 billion overseas minimum, then? That seems a bit overoptimistic to me, but then again I've been wrong on this movie before.

 

[Vic]

So you're figuring on like $2 billion overseas minimum, then? That seems a bit overoptimistic to me, but then again I've been wrong on this movie before.

For the record, my old prediction was between 2.2 to 2.5 billions, yet I didn't excepted the movie to top Titanic or reaching 2 billions (very soon) so fast. Avatar already have good legs (the weekly gross barely went down since the opening week) and it will probably do very good until the end of it's run. +2.7 billions seems like a safe prediction to me.

GhaleonEB: Could you post the worldwide weekly gross numbers if you have them?

 

[Tricky I Shadow]

So it’s finally happened, AVATAR...the most successful movie of all time! I like the sound of that.

I’ve said for a while now that it’ll beat Titanic...and I never once doubted that. The success is very well deserved if you ask me.

Looking back at some of the early comments is hilarious. So many misinformed, narrow-minded, or just plain stupid people! :lol

 

[cvxfreak]

So glad Avatar is finally beyond Titanic, and in absolutely no time too.

I wonder if 2.5 Billion is too much for it. It's only been a month.

 

[HolyCheck]

Now wheres this thread I've heard legends of, one involving crow, and eating.

 

[Tricky I Shadow]

So who here remembers this really early review that was written on the 12th of December?

Read this: “An astonishing, breathtaking masterpiece. Cameron did it! It will easily surpass Titanic’s box office. I think Cameron created a few new colors.”

It was brought up in this thread. I remember people laughing at her, thinking she was crazy. And now look at AVATAR.....look how far its come. She was right! :lol

 

[fanboi]

So I was on this yesterday... and:

Dear god? As many have stated, the story was mind blowing or anything, it did the job.
But something about the people, the environment just felt... so alive.

I actually feel saddened that we humans live a completely different lives compared to the blues, hectic, destroying etc... they felt so... calm.

As for sequels... I would love it, but I hope that they don't milk the franchise...

 

[Solo]

Take yourselves back 6 weeks. Did ANYONE foresee Avatar not only being successful, not only being ridiculously successful, not only challenging Titanic, but wiping the floor with it in under 40 days?

Incredible.

 

[fanboi]

Take yourselves back 6 weeks. Did ANYONE foresee Avatar not only being successful, not only being ridiculously successful, not only challenging Titanic, but wiping the floor with it in under 40 days?

Incredible.

Only missing Sean Connery as the Colonel, am I right?

 

[Deleted member 30609]

i'm fairly sure tricky shadow did, actually :lol

 

[Gui_PT]

So who here remembers this really early review that was written on the 12th of December?

Read this: “An astonishing, breathtaking masterpiece. Cameron did it! It will easily surpass Titanic’s box office. I think Cameron created a few new colors.”

It was brought up in this thread. I remember people laughing at her, thinking she was crazy. And now look at AVATAR.....look how far its come. She was right! :lol

If you read the comments on that page, no one really believes Avatar would beat Titanic. And it was actually reasonable, no other movie had gotten close to beating it. But look at how things are today :lol

 

[picko]

So glad Avatar is finally beyond Titanic, and in absolutely no time too.

I wonder if 2.5 Billion is too much for it. It's only been a month.

$2.5b sounds about right. It's still doing $100m weeks overseas, so it's still got a lot more money to go. Another $700m doesn't seem all that ridiculous given the holds its been having.

 

[jett]

The worldwide drops Avatar's been getting are ridiculous. If it weren't for the fact that it will inevitably shed its 3D screens two months from now who knows what the limit could be for this thing.

Last week it earned over 220 million worldwide. The madness doesn't seem like it's gonna stop. The historic two-billion record will fall this upcoming weekend.

What the fuck man.

 

[Lyonaz]

Well deserved. All Hail James Cameron!

 

[Sharp]

If you read the comments on that page, no one really believes Avatar would beat Titanic. And it was actually reasonable, no other movie had gotten close to beating it. But look at how things are today :lol

When the review was written, the movie hadn't even come out yet, tracking was in the mid-fifties, people had just found out it was getting only like 3,400 theaters, and the only indication that the movie wouldn't totally bomb was that it was getting some rave reviews on RT. If some overenthusiastic reviewer writes a fanboyish, gushing article about how the movie will "easily surpass" Titanic, you can bet people will laugh at you. Going in expecting a huge blockbuster to average sub-20% drops after the holidays is completely ridiculous. It's as ridiculous as expecting a movie to have an over 7.8x multiplier or force the Chinese government to change its mind. But hey, all that this teaches us is that there are always outliers and that even what seem to be the craziest predictions cannot be dismissed entirely out of hand as long as they are technically possible.

 

[Binabik15]

Rocky may have ended the Cold War, but James Cameron beat the Chinese government of 2010.

I fully expect Avatar to cure aids and stop global warming, the sequel will bring world peace and heal cancer and the third movie will be shot on terra-formed Mars using real Avatars. For the fourth Cameron will build a spaceship capable of FTL travel and shoot on Pandora.

 

[duckroll]

For the fourth Cameron will build a spaceship capable of FTL travel and shoot on Pandora.

So the movie will take at least 13 years to make? :lol

 

[JGS]

The one Oscar I dont think there is any question of this winning is Visual Effects. I dont know why they would even bother nominating anything else really.

For further "huh" moments in Sound:
2001 (74th)
SOUND
Amélie -- Vincent Arnardi, Guillaume Leriche, Jean Umansky
Black Hawk Down -- Michael Minkler, Myron Nettinga, Chris Munro (deserved)
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring -- Christopher Boyes, Michael Semanick, Gethin Creagh, Hammond Peek
Moulin Rouge -- Andy Nelson, Anna Behlmer, Roger Savage, Guntis Sics
Pearl Harbor -- Kevin O'Connell, Greg P. Russell, Peter J. Devlin

2002 (75th)
SOUND
Chicago -- Michael Minkler, Dominick Tavella, David Lee
Gangs of New York -- Tom Fleischman, Eugene Gearty, Ivan Sharrock
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers -- Christopher Boyes, Michael Semanick, Michael Hedges, Hammond Peek
Road to Perdition -- Scott Millan, Bob Beemer, John Patrick Pritchett
Spider-Man -- Kevin O'Connell, Greg P. Russell, Ed Novick

2003 (76th)
SOUND MIXING
The Last Samurai -- Andy Nelson, Anna Behlmer and Jeff Wexler
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King -- Christopher Boyes, Michael Semanick, Michael Hedges and Hammond Peek
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World -- Paul Massey, D.M. Hemphill and Arthur Rochester
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl -- Christopher Boyes, David Parker, David Campbell and Lee Orloff
Seabiscuit -- Andy Nelson, Anna Behlmer and Tod A. Maitland

So the only fluke was Chicago. But 2001 one had some tough competition for Sound Oscars.

When all the nominees are deserved it often splits the vote amongst them so much that the underdog wins. It happens in the larger categories but not as often. Many think that was the reason Marisa Tomei won for My Cousin Vinny.

Chicago's was derserving of the nomination if not the win imo but it's a very different movie and would have still been the underdog. That + recognition of a legend as one poster said is certainly the reason for The English Patient's win too.

 

[Tricky I Shadow]

Take yourselves back 6 weeks. Did ANYONE foresee Avatar not only being successful, not only being ridiculously successful, not only challenging Titanic, but wiping the floor with it in under 40 days?

Incredible.

i'm fairly sure tricky shadow did, actually :lol

I always knew it was gonna be a massive success, but not that massive! :lol

The amount of money it’s raked in is just insanity.....and it's still early days.

 

[Binabik15]

So the movie will take at least 13 years to make? :lol

Pfft, just cryo-sleep until Cameron is done :lol

 

[ryutaro's mama]

So who here remembers this really early review that was written on the 12th of December?

Read this: “An astonishing, breathtaking masterpiece. Cameron did it! It will easily surpass Titanic’s box office. I think Cameron created a few new colors.”

It was brought up in this thread. I remember people laughing at her, thinking she was crazy. And now look at AVATAR.....look how far its come. She was right! :lol

OMG...the comments section is a gold mine:

PVT writes:
on Dec 12 2009 05:10 PM

In reply to this comment (#2571381)
there is no way this will surpass Titanic. It will be lucky to make 400 mil domestic.

Michael G. writes:
on Dec 13 2009 08:17 AM

hahaha, easily surpass Titanic???? What a joke! This will probably not even crack the top 10.

merrimac writes:
on Dec 13 2009 04:04 AM

Are you kidding? I don't think there's any way a movie with blue people will become the number one grossing movie of all time in non-adjusted dollars.

It ain't gonna happen. They should be happy if this thing breaks even.

Simpleton writes:
on Dec 14 2009 12:53 AM

Gotta love the delusions of this reviewer. Not only will this flick NOT surpass Titanic, but it won't come close either. To suggest "easily" is pure idiocy. The Dark Knight had far greater appeal than this flick ever will, and it couldn't do it either. Utterly laughable. May I suggest to this reviewer to actually THINK before finalizing the review? With that out of the way, I cannot wait to glue my eyes onto the big screen for this flick.

and my favorite, the last comment:

Ted C. writes:
on Jan 24 2010 11:37 AM

Hey guys!!! Guess what? She was RIGHT.

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[LosDaddie]

I'm happy I could help Avatar become #1 this weekend with my 2nd IMAX viewing