"Avatar" hits 1 Gigadollar

[theoldwolf]

Since it's opening 17 days ago, Avatar has grossed 1 billion dollars worldwide. Seventeen days.

According to CNN, Dark Knight took almost its entire theatrical run to do that.

I guess that shuts the hqiz out of any mealy-mouthed reviewer that didn't like the film.

And, that pretty much guarantees the next sequel. Booyah!

Comments

[carlfoxmarten]

Okay, I gotta ask: Who does your emoticons?
All of them are totally neat and make me wish I had a set of them of my own fursona...

[secoh.livejournal.com]

same here! I've been wondering for a while lol

[ccdesan.livejournal.com]

I do them myself, based on a set of wuffers I found out there. The set I plundered had the basic emotions, and I've just tweaked and built on those.

[secoh.livejournal.com]

I'm convinced Avatar (and Up and Pixar as well in general) are proof that worldwide audiences are sick of being treated like chumps by marketing departments of movie companies.

[deckardcanine.livejournal.com]

How do you mean?

[secoh.livejournal.com]

I mean people are thoroughly sick of remakes, insipid comedies and second rate comic and cartoon characters turned into movies.

Even though avatar has a linear plot lifted straight from fern gully, it is different and original enough to stand head and shoulders from all the crap at the cinemas in the last 5 to 8 years ( with a few exceptions of course).

[deckardcanine.livejournal.com]

I'd feel more confident of that trend if The Dark Knight weren't right behind Avatar in financial success.

Also, the plot was more Dances With Wolves than FernGully. I think nobody who liked FG ever makes the comparison.

[secoh.livejournal.com]

Credit where credit is due, they did a darn good job on dark knight, and if Heath Ledger hadn't have done the role of the Joker so well (and subsequently died) it would have also been a mediocre movie and probably wouldn't have done so well.

I liked Fern Gully. I'm comfortable with the comparison. I also enjoyed Dances with Wolves, but think it isn't the best fit for comparison.

[ccdesan.livejournal.com]

What he said!

[deckardcanine.livejournal.com]

No, it does not guarantee a sequel. Titanic didn't get one. Avatar has a more open ending, what with the likelihood of another human attack, but I find it hard to picture how they'd make a whole movie out of it.

[ccdesan.livejournal.com]

Yes, it does guarantee a sequel. Cameron has already said he has two more scripts more or less complete, and was just waiting to see if the first was successful.

[secoh.livejournal.com]

I bet they take my advice and come back with a longwall. Haha

[r-caton.livejournal.com]

Well, it would be hard to Raise the Titanic....
especially after Lew Grade had tried....

[makovette.livejournal.com]

Pirates of the Caribbean IV - The Black Pearl gets an upgrade :D

CYa!
Mako