“Avatar” has become the highest-grossing U.S. film of 2009, with $429 million, passing “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen”. I’m still surprised by “Avatar”‘s incredible success, because I don’t love the film. But I’m also happy that it will be the top film of the year, and not “Transformers 2” which I hated.
Very soon “Avatar” will move into 3rd-place all-time domestically, but will need another $600 million to catch James Cameron’s previous epic – “Titanic”, and probably won’t get there. But internationally, “Avatar” has a good shot at catching “Titanic” and becoming the new #1.
I still don’t get it (obviously the IMAX ticket prices have helped) but it’s still an amazing accomplishment for a film about humans battling aliens on a strange planet (hasn’t everyone see that before).
In other news: Jay’s out of Prime Time; the Gumby creator passes, and Disney will re-release the ’51 animated classic “Alice in Wonderland” in an Un-Anniversary Edition on March 30th, while Tim Burton’s new live-action “Alice” IS STILL IN THEATERS. Very curious.