Now with the usual Add On.
The Nikkster has the numbers early on a Saturday, and we're happy to see that Jimmy Cameron's animation hybrid Avatar maintains its hold on the movie-going public, even though it has those disgusting and un-American Librul themes running through it ...
1. Avatar (20th Century Fox) Week 4 [3,422 Theaters] Friday $12.6M, Est Weekend $45M, Cume $425M
2. Daybreakers (Lionsgate) NEW [2,523 Theaters] Friday $5.8M, Est Weekend $15M
3. Sherlock Holmes (Warner Bros) Week 3 [3,626 Theaters] Friday $5M, Est Weekend $17M, Cume $165M
4. Alvin & The Chipmunks: The Squealquel (Fox) Week 3 [3,641 Theaters] Friday $3.2M, Est Weekend $15M, Cume $176.3M
5. It's Complicated (Universal) Week 3 [2,955 Theaters] Friday $3.1M, Est Weekend $10M, Cume $76.7M
6. Leap Year (Universal) NEW [2,511 Theaters] Friday $3.1M, Est Weekend $9M
7. Youth in Revolt (The Weinstein Co) NEW [1,873 Theaters] Friday $2.7M, Est Weekend $7M
8. Blind Side (Warner Bros) Week 8 [2,928 Theaters] Friday $2.1M, Est Weekend $7M, Cume $218M
9. Up In The Air (Paramount) Week 6 [2,218 Theaters] Friday $2M, Est Weekend $7M, Cume $54.4M
10. Princess And The Frog (Disney) Week 7 [2,620 Theaters] Friday $850K, Est Weekend $3.5M, Cume $91.6M
Other Top Ten animated titles aren't doing badly either: Alvin scampers toward $200 millioncomestic, and The Princess and the Frog looks poised to hit $100 million soon.
(As always, we like to point out that larger box office means more employment.)
Add On: The top three pictures from last week repeat this week, and Fox's two animated hybrids (and Avatar is an animated hybrid despite denials) are making several truckloads of money.
Avatar at numero uno has now made $485 million this weekend and $429 million since its release.
Sherlock Holmes has uncovered $165.2 million, and Alivn and the Chipmunks, the Squeakquel has roared past $178 million on its way to $200 million.
And tenth place The Princess and the Frog (dropping from #7) has racked up $92.6 million in ticket sales after seven weeks of release.
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Don't let James Cameron catch you calling Avatar an animated film. In multiple interviews he's gone out of his way to distance himself from the label of "animation" . He's a "Real Serious Film Maker" , see ? Not some lowly animation director.
He decries the indignity of 3D having largely been confined to childish fluff like animated films.
Here is Cameron's own description of his process making "Avatar" -
"It's this form of pure creation where if you want to move a tree or a mountain or the sky or change the time of day, you have complete control over the elements."
—James Cameron on Virtual Filmmaking
So, even though that sounds exactly like a description of the creative control that animated filmmakers have enjoyed since the beginning, it's different now that a serious filmmaker like James Cameron is involved. What Cameron is doing is serious "Virtual Filmmaking" , not animation . Sort of like when Ralph Bakshi was making "The Lord of the Rings" with the mo-cap technology available circa 1978 and said : “Don't call me an animator! I hate animation. I'm doing moving illustrations”
To paraphrase Shakespeare:
What's in a name? that which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet;
So Animation would, were it not Animation call'd,
Retain that dear perfection which it owes
Without that title...
Atta boy, Steve, stick it to the right-wingers over a non-animated film, and meanwhile make no mention of the utter failure of Princess and the Frog, which is at the bottom of the top 10 and couldn't even snag a million.
Or is that how you make yourself feel better?
PATF is not an utter failure, its an under-achiever. An utter failure is Astro Boy or even worse, Delgo.
PATF will make its money back in domestic box office alone. All overseas box office is profit, and the merchandising is even more profit. A hell of a lot of profit.
And when it comes out on DVD, it'll be even more profit.
James Cameron has a long history of showing contempt toward animators, usually referring to them as "stupid animators."
Probably because, for a guy who prides himself at being proficient at every job on a film set, it's the one part of film-making that he cannot do.
Probably because, for a guy who prides himself at being proficient at every job on a film set, it's the one part of film-making that he cannot do.
Other than writing screenplays with clunky-ass dialogue, I mean.
*All overseas box office is profit*
Wrong.
*PatF will make its money back in domestic box office alone*
Wrong again. You don't know Hollywood bookkeeping. PatF needed to make at least 200 million to be considered a box-office hit. It won't even get close to that now.
We've all discussed this to exhaustion on these boards.
NO ONE KNOWS what the REAL budget is. No one. ONly whats reported on BoMojo.
Besides, I never claimed it was a HIT. I said it WASNT an utter failure.
I swear to christ some of you cant read.
don't swear. its not good for you.
Once again ...for the slow ones here...IT'S...ALL...ABOUT...PERCEPTION!!
Frog is a bomb...even Entertainmaent Weekly has declared it a loser.
Sure it'll eventually make turns of money acting as a commercial for tons of toys and probably DTV sequels (how much you want a bet that's being floated?) But for all time it will be known as the film that shutdown Disney for the 2nd time (hmmm...wonder how John and ron will be remembered...? They've had that distinction twice now)
i'm sure you're saying "that won't happen! JL won't let that happen!" BS...he's not an advocate for 2D...he only said he'd give it a shot and the board is probably thinking if John can't make it work no one can.
"Frog is a bomb...even Entertainmaent Weekly has declared it a loser."
Well .
That PROVES it !
Thanks for clearing that up.
"It's this form of pure creation where if you want to move a tree or a mountain or the sky or change the time of day, you have complete control over the elements."
Spoken like a true control freak. He actually thinks he has complete control. That is not filmmaking. That is just masturbating with computer toys to make pretend. He doesn't realize that what made his early work great was how raw it was. Now he's just churning out the same over-produced bloated hype that every other moron with a computer hacks out.
What do James Cameron's buttocks look like?
"BS...he's not an advocate for 2D...he only said he'd give it a shot and the board is probably thinking if John can't make it work no one can."
What a Tard you are. If you think Lasseter isn't an advocate for 2D then you haven't heard him in interviews. Now and in the past he's always talked about his love for hand-drawn animation.
And you have about as much wisdom about what will happen to Disney Animation as you do to his love of 2D as well.
Atta boy, Steve, stick it to the right-wingers over a non-animated film, and meanwhile make no mention of the utter failure of Princess and the Frog, which is at the bottom of the top 10 and couldn't even snag a million.
In the next ten to fifteen days, PandTF ticks over a $100 million domestic.
It's an under-performer compared to Pixar or DreamWorks CG films, but hardly a failure.
I just got out of a Sunday Matinee screening of Avatar, in 3D on a regular screen. The theater was packed...
I'm a 2d animator, I animate by hand and still feel if the right combination of story and style are married in a 2d feature, in can make a successful run.
But I have to admit that Avatar will probably go down as being the, highest grossing and most globally successful film made to this date and will probably hold the record through the decade. It very well might might win the Oscar for best picture this year and deservedly so.
The technical achievements reached in Avatar will probably change not only a lot of the way's films are made, but distributed. The nature of the production makes in only viewable in true 3D on digital projectors. This full beauty of the film can only be fully appreciated on large screens that encompass as much of the human field of vision as possible. This is not something you can wait to see on DVD, if you do, you'll never understand what is getting the theater goers talking. Mr Cameron may have inadvertently saved the big screen, if not forcing cinemas to construct IMAX arenas for the future of productions.
Putting aside the technology for a moment, Of all the things astonished me the most was the absolute unapologetic portrayal of Capitalism as being the all consuming destroyer of worlds and Socialism being the righteous way. It goes beyond that even, Avatar is like a mirror, and in it we are forced to reflect upon what we, as the United States have become since the post WWII pursuit of a Capitalist Empire to the present.
This theme is nothing new, but I would have never thought THE INDUSTRY could produce a film that says "we are the USA, we plundered and destroyed the nations of our own world and will do it to others, but our technology will fail us when the will of the collective peoples (and descent from within) is bent to stop us, and we will fall.
And to have that film be the highest grossing film to ever be made and gain phenomenal interest from around the world shows that the message is true.
Yes there is a lot of eye candy and borrowing of almost line for line dialog from Braveheart when it comes to the motivational speeches. Avatar also owes much of it's inspiration to the Miller brothers who created the old computer game of MYST and most of all, the fantasy novel "A Voyage to Arcturus" by David Lindsay, upon which much of the world and life systems of Pandora were based.
I'm not the guy who goes out and watches movies all the time, my annual cinema patronage is maybe 2 or 3 times a year. A lot of modern films and animations I've seen on TV or DVD I think are crap and I am glad I did not waste my money at the box office.
Avatar is not crap, those who say it is have either not seen it, did not understand it, or more likely are just jealous that they were not on board.
You have to have some deep seated hatred of this film in order to sit through it and not have a moment where you say to yourself "Damn, that IS pretty cool."
Whether you're into the revolutionary aspects,the nature of GOD, fantastic eye candy, sexy blue nearly naked aliens or just plain shit gettin blown up, Avatar has something for everyone and is a worthy achievement in the history of film making.
-Rodger
Capitalism made the movie Avatar possible, so spare us the socialist lecture, okay?
And Avatar is, in truth, little more than eye candy (albeit lavish eye candy) to anybody with sense. It has no profound message, unless you also think The Phantom Menace had a profound message. Cameron just needed a bare-bones story to hang his pretty pictures on, and the hokey old "mean-people-cut-down-trees-and-abuse-native-peoples" plot fit the bill. People aren't going to see Avatar because of its brilliant scripting, because it has none. It's just a mind-blowing experience, as Disney's Fantasia was during an earlier age.
Oh, and you might remember that the USA has saved the world twice over during wars we didn't start, and we are the first and most generous country to help out with our evil capitalist dollars when natural disaster strikes anywhere in the world.
I bet you wet yourself when you saw "Fahrenheit 9/11". You seem the type.
that is pretty funny.
I dont care for Cameron much either. He is a visual story teller with out much story but great visuals.
Capitalism made the movie Avatar possible, so spare us the socialist lecture, okay?
Hey now. Of course he's socialist. He's a bankster for Citibank.
How much more socialist can you get?
Disney, Pixar, Warner Brothers, MGM - all of the studios that built animation into a viable commercial product came about under a capitalist society. Which in turn created the industry this blog supports. Beats me why some of the people here like to bash capitalism so much. What would Walt have done without support from banks and other capitalist entities? In a socialist society, Walt would have had to borrow cash from the rich - if he could find any - or from the government, and gee, think such a gov't would have allowed him to do what he liked, even without its financial input?
Even socialist nations - the ones who have any kind of viable economy at all - need a little capitalism to prosper. I wonder if those who are defending socialism here are the same ones who naively voted for the mealy-mouthed wimp who's wrecking our economy and trying to appease our enemies, who are laughing at us and defying us with impunity (see: Iran)? I can't help but wonder how they'd feel about socialism if they had ever lived in Cuba, like my grandfather did. They'd get a real education, I can tell you that - if they have the capacity to learn anything but moronic platitudes.
Capitalism has failed. Where's my bailout? Where's my AIG shares? Or my GM shares? I keep waiting for them to turn up on my mailbox.
Thank you Government. enjoy the new nanny state.
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