Dec 21 2009Weekend Box Office Gets Blue and Cat-Like
Your last weekend box office report before Christmas. Print and laminate it for a quick gift.
1. Avatar - $73 million. Pretty impressive considering a massive storm hit the east coast, bringing with it mountains of snow and, somehow, the overwhelming feeling that from the Avatar trailer alone, everyone already feels like they get it enough to not even bother.
2. The Princess and the Frog - $12.2 million. Now that we have a black princess, it's about time Disney gets to work on another underrepresented demographic in their princess universe: lepers.
3. The Blind Side - $10 million, nearly $165 fucking million total. STOP MAKING MONEY, THE BLIND SIDE.
4. Did You Hear About the Morgans - Only $7 million? Maybe you guys don't get the concept. See, the main characters are from Manhattan, but now they have to live in the country. Do you not see how funny that fish-out-of-water scenario would be?
5. New Moon - $4.4 million. One more week in the top five and it gets the canvas tote. Good luck!
Weekend Box Office Results [Box Office Mojo]
Reader Comments
1. che-che - December 21, 2009 1:31 PM
avatar was all right, would;ve been better if weaver;s avatar flashed the camera a bit. she had some large wazonkas!!
2. Fuzzy Tingle Times (NS) - December 21, 2009 2:11 PM
It just doesn't look that amazing to me. But Yeah... I was snowed in.
3. Beastman AIDS - December 21, 2009 4:50 PM
I really enjoyed Avatar. Dunno about Sigourney's 'wazoonkas' being big, let alone flash worthy. They were attached to a 10' blue cat woman who looked creepily similar to Sigourney Weaver.
4. Jonathan - December 21, 2009 7:30 PM
I loved Avatar! I'm probably going to watch it again and again
5. Matt - December 22, 2009 12:55 AM
I think the IWS writer saw Avatar over the weekend but still wants to be on the "Avatar is gonna suck" bandwagon so he's tryin to play it off. @ 2.....so did you actually see it? Trust me....its more amazing that you could think. The visuals combined with the 3D is just something you've never seen before. You can never tell whats real and whats CG. Even my buddy, who I kinda thought was not gonna like it, loved it!
The "Avatar is gonna suck" bandwagon ran out of steam on Friday....time to go see it and enjoy it cause I know you will.
6. AaronZZZ - December 22, 2009 5:10 PM
@5 is totally right, I was even a bit skeptical, until I saw it... Yea Its Epic, Yea Its awsome... Yea the story has been done before but then so has everything else..... Graphics are amazing...see it 3D!
7. Ickorus - December 24, 2009 7:43 PM
Avatar is a damn good movie, i had a firm belief that it would either be a huge success or a huge failure and it managed to pull off the former.
Let's just say i'll be buying the Blu-Ray.
8. aman - January 1, 2010 8:31 AM
Avatar over the weekend but still wants to be on the "Avatar is gonna suck" bandwagon so he's tryin to play it off. @ 2.....so did you actually see it? Trust me....its more amazing that you could think. The visuals combined with the 3D is just something you've never seen before. You can never tell whats real and whats CG. Even my buddy, who I kinda thought was not gonna like it, loved it!
9. Species 8472 - January 23, 2010 11:03 AM
I think someone here has money invested in Avatar. I hoped it would be at least as good as one of those National Geographic IMAX things.
Disappointment. Lots of Disney caricature faces. They glaze the real stuff with CGI to desensitize you to the full CGI (as many noticed in the trailers).
It's pretty okay. I figured Cameron would make an okay movie. It is okay. It's not great. I've watched some movies four times in the theater. I saw Watchmen twice. I'm not scheduling a second viewing for Avatar.