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No brother. I haven't gone to see the movie yet.
Waiting for the holiday period to blow over.
I won't get lost (at least I hope I won't) because I've taken the bus I need to take to around the same area twice before.
If you feel like a smurfycat stuck in a human body, you might want to consider seeing a shrink.:o
Waiting for the holiday period to blow over.
I won't get lost (at least I hope I won't) because I've taken the bus I need to take to around the same area twice before.
If you feel like a smurfycat stuck in a human body, you might want to consider seeing a shrink.:o
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HuffPost Weekend Box Office in Review: Avatar Dominates Record-Breaking The biggest three-day weekend of all-time, at $263.9 million.
Avatar ($75.5 million) - Biggest second weekend of all time. Smallest dip (-1.8%) for any movie opening over $42 million. Tenth-smallest drop for any super-wide release. Biggest Christmas weekend ever. Tenth-fastest to $200 million.
Sherlock Holmes ($62.3 million) - Biggest Christmas opening-weekend ever. Fifth-biggest December opening weekend ever. Second-largest opening weekend not to be number 01 (behind The Day After Tomorrow's $68 million Memorial Day launch).
Alvin and the Chipmunks 2: The Squeakuel ($48.8 million) - Eighth-biggest December opening weekend. Fourth-biggest opening weekend not to be number 01.
OK, now that we have that out of the way, let's discuss the nitty-gritty. Coming off shockingly consistent weekday numbers ($16 million each day on Mon-Wed, then $11 million for Christmas Eve), James Cameron's Avatar easily took the box office crown for the second weekend in a row. Dropping an almost insignificant 1.8%, the sci-fi epic has now amassed $212 million in ten days. Oh, and its already pulled in $623 million in global ticket sales. So, in just ten days, Avatar is pretty much in the black in regards to costs ($240 million) and marketing ($150 million). Say what you will about the higher prices of 3D and IMAX tickets, but the consistent performance of Avatar is downright astonishing. The Lord of the Rings films didn't have holds anywhere near this good. Spider-Man dropped 38% in its second weekend. Twister dropped 9.7% in its second weekend with absolutely no competition. Heck, even The Sixth Sense dropped a whole 3.6% in its second three-day run. In my lifetime, for numbers of this relative scale, I've only seen this once before. Yes, James Cameron's Titanic actually increased its opening weekend by 23% from $28 million to $35 million over Christmas weekend 1997. I hesitate to even think that James Cameron may have done the impossible twice in a row, but the ground-level sentiment feels the same as it did twelve years ago. Everyone in every demographic is telling everyone to see it, and everyone seems to be relatively satisfied. And, since we're dealing with twelve years of inflated numbers, Avatar only has to be an unstoppable force for about six weeks, as opposed to Titanic's four-month reign of terror. George Lucas famously said that he knew Star Wars's reign at the top of the domestic box office was toast at the end of Titanic's third weekend. If Avatar pulls in anything resembling the $135 million that it grossed over the last seven days in the last week of the year, we'll know that the domestic record may be in serious peril (Titanic's third weekend drop just 6%). Of course, adjusted for inflation, Titanic's $600 million domestic total would equal $921 million today. But we'll cross that bridge if we need to.
How do you gross $62 million over your opening weekend and still end up with no respect? When you end up in the shadow of a cultural phenomenon, that's how. Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes (which was either a reinvention or a return to the literary roots, depending on which Doyle stories you have on your bookcase) knocked out the biggest Christmas opening of all time, but it still was only good enough for second place. The Robert Downey Jr/Jude Law vehicle was hurt both by the Avatar media firestorm, and by the misfortune of being the third major movie of note by the time Christmas day came around. Since Avatar had guaranteed access to the bigger screens and Alvin and the Chipmunks 2 had the benefit of a Wednesday opening (and $18.8 million opening day), Sherlock Holmes had to settle for smaller auditoriums in many of its theaters. Anecdotal evidence has abounded of this would-be franchise starter playing in shockingly small auditoriums. My parents actually found their first showtime of choice being sold out, and they too reported a smaller-than-expected theater (for the record, neither of them liked the movie). Still, $62 million is nothing to complain about (it's the ninth-biggest opening of the year), and a $175 million-$200 million total is likely barring a complete collapse due to mediocre word of mouth (its 2.5x weekend multiplier was actually pretty low for this time of year). We can expect to see a sequel to this one in the next two or three years, depending on Downey Jr's Iron Man/Avengers schedule.
Third place embarrassingly went to Alvin and the Chipmunks 2. Unlike other kid-centric adaptations whose sequels could only hold onto a portion (Scooby Doo: Monster's Unleashed) or a fraction (The Flintstones In Viva Rock Vegas) of their originals' box office take, the Fox 'secret weapon' (a cheap profit machine in case Avatar flopped) grossed $48.8 million over the Fri-Sun portion, with a Wed-Sun total of $75.5 million. The prior film opened with $46 million the weekend before Christmas in 2007 (against I Am Legend's record $77.25 million December opening) and inexplicably made it to $217 million. Fox's other sequel that no one demanded, Night at the Museum: Battle For the Smithsonian ended up with 70% of the original's domestic take. A similar path would give Alvin and the Chipmunks 2 about $153 million. But with $75 million already in the bank, $200 million is a strong possibility unless America wises up and takes their kids to The Princess and the Frog instead.
Fourth place went to It's Complicated, which pulled in $22.1 million. This is Meryl Streep's third-consecutive wide-release opening of over $20 million, and her seventh such opening of her career. In a rare double-whammy, our most respected actress is now officially the most bankable female star in Hollywood, all at the tender age of... oh who cares how old she is. George Clooney's Up in the Air debuted in wide release with $11.7 million, which is right in the $11-14 million safe zone for George Clooney star vehicles not involving Vegas capers, giant storms, caped crusaders, or an assist from Brad Pitt and the Coen brothers. The Oscar front-runner has now grossed just under its $25 million budget. The Blind Side increased by 17% over the weekend, grossing an amazing $11.7 million in its sixth weekend. The film has now amassed $184 million, and is now the biggest-grossing 'based on a true story' movie of all time, give or take the alleged non-fiction nature of The Passion of the Christ. Barring a backlash over the 'gosh it's a big-studio drama that people just like' nature of the film (to say nothing over the absurd comparisons with Sandra Bullock's character and Sarah Palin), I fully expect a Best Picture Oscar nomination to go along with Bullock's Best Actress nod.
Well, if you want to discuss movies that are likely Best Picture nominees despite terrible reviews and box office failure, let's talk Rob Marshall's Nine. Coming in at number... uh, eight (drat!), the musical sensation that's earning 40% on Rotten Tomatoes pulled in $5.5 million over its three-day wide debut. Disney must be absolutely kicking themselves over hiring this guy to direct the next Pirates of the Caribbean film (will all the swashbuckling be in Jack Sparrow's head?), as opposed to giving it to someone competent like Kathryn Bigelow or Neill Blomkamp. I have no idea which songs were from the original show and which were made up for the movie, but the film version has worse, more on-the-nose musical lyrics than Repo: A Genetic Opera. It will be interesting to see if Oscar can resist the allure of the many attractive stars, or whether Harvey Weinstein can use what's left of his capital to pull nominations for a movie that no one likes.
The Princess and the Frog dropped a sad 26%, and it now sits at just $63.6 million. Come on, people... there's no excuse for not checking this one out. I don't know whether the blame lies with the platform release (interest peaked during Disney's 2-theater Thanksgiving engagement), the overtly female nature of the story (combined with the heavy female drawing power of Avatar and Sherlock Holmes) or, dare I say it, its African-American characters and locale, but something went a little wrong for this sure-fire smash. Below that are a slew of limited releases (A Serious Man, An Education, The Young Victoria, The Road, etc) that are stuck in neutral, hoping and praying for Oscar glory to help them dig out of their ruts. The only limited opening was Terry Gilliam's The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, which pulled in $124,743 on four screens.
That's all for this weekend. Join us next weekend for the thrilling opening weekend of... nothing. Expect the rankings to stay relatively similar, and the big question is whether Avatar can race to the $300 million mark by year's end. For more, including the year's worst films, a quick look back at the decade in film, and what happened at Christmas last year, go to Mendelson's Memos.
Scott Mendelson
Avatar ($75.5 million) - Biggest second weekend of all time. Smallest dip (-1.8%) for any movie opening over $42 million. Tenth-smallest drop for any super-wide release. Biggest Christmas weekend ever. Tenth-fastest to $200 million.
Sherlock Holmes ($62.3 million) - Biggest Christmas opening-weekend ever. Fifth-biggest December opening weekend ever. Second-largest opening weekend not to be number 01 (behind The Day After Tomorrow's $68 million Memorial Day launch).
Alvin and the Chipmunks 2: The Squeakuel ($48.8 million) - Eighth-biggest December opening weekend. Fourth-biggest opening weekend not to be number 01.
OK, now that we have that out of the way, let's discuss the nitty-gritty. Coming off shockingly consistent weekday numbers ($16 million each day on Mon-Wed, then $11 million for Christmas Eve), James Cameron's Avatar easily took the box office crown for the second weekend in a row. Dropping an almost insignificant 1.8%, the sci-fi epic has now amassed $212 million in ten days. Oh, and its already pulled in $623 million in global ticket sales. So, in just ten days, Avatar is pretty much in the black in regards to costs ($240 million) and marketing ($150 million). Say what you will about the higher prices of 3D and IMAX tickets, but the consistent performance of Avatar is downright astonishing. The Lord of the Rings films didn't have holds anywhere near this good. Spider-Man dropped 38% in its second weekend. Twister dropped 9.7% in its second weekend with absolutely no competition. Heck, even The Sixth Sense dropped a whole 3.6% in its second three-day run. In my lifetime, for numbers of this relative scale, I've only seen this once before. Yes, James Cameron's Titanic actually increased its opening weekend by 23% from $28 million to $35 million over Christmas weekend 1997. I hesitate to even think that James Cameron may have done the impossible twice in a row, but the ground-level sentiment feels the same as it did twelve years ago. Everyone in every demographic is telling everyone to see it, and everyone seems to be relatively satisfied. And, since we're dealing with twelve years of inflated numbers, Avatar only has to be an unstoppable force for about six weeks, as opposed to Titanic's four-month reign of terror. George Lucas famously said that he knew Star Wars's reign at the top of the domestic box office was toast at the end of Titanic's third weekend. If Avatar pulls in anything resembling the $135 million that it grossed over the last seven days in the last week of the year, we'll know that the domestic record may be in serious peril (Titanic's third weekend drop just 6%). Of course, adjusted for inflation, Titanic's $600 million domestic total would equal $921 million today. But we'll cross that bridge if we need to.
How do you gross $62 million over your opening weekend and still end up with no respect? When you end up in the shadow of a cultural phenomenon, that's how. Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes (which was either a reinvention or a return to the literary roots, depending on which Doyle stories you have on your bookcase) knocked out the biggest Christmas opening of all time, but it still was only good enough for second place. The Robert Downey Jr/Jude Law vehicle was hurt both by the Avatar media firestorm, and by the misfortune of being the third major movie of note by the time Christmas day came around. Since Avatar had guaranteed access to the bigger screens and Alvin and the Chipmunks 2 had the benefit of a Wednesday opening (and $18.8 million opening day), Sherlock Holmes had to settle for smaller auditoriums in many of its theaters. Anecdotal evidence has abounded of this would-be franchise starter playing in shockingly small auditoriums. My parents actually found their first showtime of choice being sold out, and they too reported a smaller-than-expected theater (for the record, neither of them liked the movie). Still, $62 million is nothing to complain about (it's the ninth-biggest opening of the year), and a $175 million-$200 million total is likely barring a complete collapse due to mediocre word of mouth (its 2.5x weekend multiplier was actually pretty low for this time of year). We can expect to see a sequel to this one in the next two or three years, depending on Downey Jr's Iron Man/Avengers schedule.
Third place embarrassingly went to Alvin and the Chipmunks 2. Unlike other kid-centric adaptations whose sequels could only hold onto a portion (Scooby Doo: Monster's Unleashed) or a fraction (The Flintstones In Viva Rock Vegas) of their originals' box office take, the Fox 'secret weapon' (a cheap profit machine in case Avatar flopped) grossed $48.8 million over the Fri-Sun portion, with a Wed-Sun total of $75.5 million. The prior film opened with $46 million the weekend before Christmas in 2007 (against I Am Legend's record $77.25 million December opening) and inexplicably made it to $217 million. Fox's other sequel that no one demanded, Night at the Museum: Battle For the Smithsonian ended up with 70% of the original's domestic take. A similar path would give Alvin and the Chipmunks 2 about $153 million. But with $75 million already in the bank, $200 million is a strong possibility unless America wises up and takes their kids to The Princess and the Frog instead.
Fourth place went to It's Complicated, which pulled in $22.1 million. This is Meryl Streep's third-consecutive wide-release opening of over $20 million, and her seventh such opening of her career. In a rare double-whammy, our most respected actress is now officially the most bankable female star in Hollywood, all at the tender age of... oh who cares how old she is. George Clooney's Up in the Air debuted in wide release with $11.7 million, which is right in the $11-14 million safe zone for George Clooney star vehicles not involving Vegas capers, giant storms, caped crusaders, or an assist from Brad Pitt and the Coen brothers. The Oscar front-runner has now grossed just under its $25 million budget. The Blind Side increased by 17% over the weekend, grossing an amazing $11.7 million in its sixth weekend. The film has now amassed $184 million, and is now the biggest-grossing 'based on a true story' movie of all time, give or take the alleged non-fiction nature of The Passion of the Christ. Barring a backlash over the 'gosh it's a big-studio drama that people just like' nature of the film (to say nothing over the absurd comparisons with Sandra Bullock's character and Sarah Palin), I fully expect a Best Picture Oscar nomination to go along with Bullock's Best Actress nod.
Well, if you want to discuss movies that are likely Best Picture nominees despite terrible reviews and box office failure, let's talk Rob Marshall's Nine. Coming in at number... uh, eight (drat!), the musical sensation that's earning 40% on Rotten Tomatoes pulled in $5.5 million over its three-day wide debut. Disney must be absolutely kicking themselves over hiring this guy to direct the next Pirates of the Caribbean film (will all the swashbuckling be in Jack Sparrow's head?), as opposed to giving it to someone competent like Kathryn Bigelow or Neill Blomkamp. I have no idea which songs were from the original show and which were made up for the movie, but the film version has worse, more on-the-nose musical lyrics than Repo: A Genetic Opera. It will be interesting to see if Oscar can resist the allure of the many attractive stars, or whether Harvey Weinstein can use what's left of his capital to pull nominations for a movie that no one likes.
The Princess and the Frog dropped a sad 26%, and it now sits at just $63.6 million. Come on, people... there's no excuse for not checking this one out. I don't know whether the blame lies with the platform release (interest peaked during Disney's 2-theater Thanksgiving engagement), the overtly female nature of the story (combined with the heavy female drawing power of Avatar and Sherlock Holmes) or, dare I say it, its African-American characters and locale, but something went a little wrong for this sure-fire smash. Below that are a slew of limited releases (A Serious Man, An Education, The Young Victoria, The Road, etc) that are stuck in neutral, hoping and praying for Oscar glory to help them dig out of their ruts. The only limited opening was Terry Gilliam's The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, which pulled in $124,743 on four screens.
That's all for this weekend. Join us next weekend for the thrilling opening weekend of... nothing. Expect the rankings to stay relatively similar, and the big question is whether Avatar can race to the $300 million mark by year's end. For more, including the year's worst films, a quick look back at the decade in film, and what happened at Christmas last year, go to Mendelson's Memos.
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Number 1 in second week, with massive competition 2 and 3
USA Weekend Box-Office Summary
week of 25 December 2009 Rank Title Weekend Gross
1 Avatar (2009) $75.6M $213M
2 Sherlock Holmes (2009) $62.4M $62.4M
3 Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel (2009) $48.9M $75.6M
4 It's Complicated (2009) $22.1M $22.1M
5 The Blind Side (2009) $11.5M $184M
6 Up in the Air (2009/I) $11.3M $24M
7 The Princess and the Frog (2009) $9M $63.7M
8 Nine (2009) $5.45M $5.83M
9 Did You Hear About the Morgans? (2009) $5M $15.6M
10 Invictus (2009) $4.04M $23M
USA Weekend Box-Office Summary
week of 25 December 2009 Rank Title Weekend Gross
1 Avatar (2009) $75.6M $213M
2 Sherlock Holmes (2009) $62.4M $62.4M
3 Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel (2009) $48.9M $75.6M
4 It's Complicated (2009) $22.1M $22.1M
5 The Blind Side (2009) $11.5M $184M
6 Up in the Air (2009/I) $11.3M $24M
7 The Princess and the Frog (2009) $9M $63.7M
8 Nine (2009) $5.45M $5.83M
9 Did You Hear About the Morgans? (2009) $5M $15.6M
10 Invictus (2009) $4.04M $23M
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Five Reasons Avatar Still Won’t Win Best Picture
12/28/09 at 3:30 PM Comment 32Comment 32Comments
Photo: Courtesy of Fox
We go on vacation for a few measly days, and look what happens: James Cameron's ecstatically reviewed, box-office-conquering Avatar is suddenly, improbably, the front-runner in this year's Best Picture race. Far be it from us to tell the HMFIC what he can and can't do, but we still don't see the King of the World reigning on another Oscar night. After the jump, we count down the five biggest reasons why Avatar can't win the Academy's top award (or at least the five reasons we'll be surprised when Cameron swaggers up to the Oscar podium, spikes his award, and tells his haters to suck it in Na'vi).
1. The Special Effects.
When it was released in 1997, Titanic, too, had CGI impressive enough to distract from Cameron's tin-eared dialogue — but the film's clear focus was its sweeping, tragic, human-based love story (not that this helped Cameron get a nomination for his screenplay, of course). Avatar's script is serviceable, we guess, but have you heard a single person raving about anything but the movie's special effects? We have not.
2. The Academy: still snobby.
While it may be true that only whiny snobs are still complaining about Avatar's extravisual shortcomings, it's worth noting that the Academy's current membership is comprised primarily of whiny snobs. Remember last year, when they snubbed The Dark Knight in favor of The Reader? Or the year before that, in which the cumulative gross of the five Best Picture nominees was approximately half of what it costs to see Avatar in IMAX? Not since 2003's The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King have popcorn-allergic Oscar voters rewarded anything crowd-pleasing and blockbusting in the top category.
3. Screeners.
Another thing Academy members are snobby about is sharing recirculated movie-theater air with mouth-breathing non-Oscar-voting plebeians. Studios interested in winning awards generally have to furnish agoraphobic, non-theater-visiting voters with DVD copies of their movies — standard-definition, 2-D DVDs obviously incapable of showcasing the three-dimensional, IMAX-def glory that is Avatar.
4. Oscar still hates science fiction.
Like comedy, animation, and movies featuring brown people, science fiction has historically been ignored by the Academy Awards. No space-based movie has ever won Best Picture, and none have been nominated since E.T. in 1982 (it lost to Gandhi, which featured not a single alien).
5. Actors.
One argument for Avatar's Best Picture chances is that 3-D movies (and higher ticket prices) are the film industry's current best hope for longevity, and that the Academy might cast a vote for its own survival. Fat chance, we say: The organization's biggest contingent, by far, is actors, the very same people replaced by blue pixels on James Cameron's computer-generated, thespian-free Pandora. Sure, one could correctly argue that Avatar features the motion-captured performances of real human beings, but just try explaining that to technophobic ballot-wielding elderlies like Mickey Rooney and Dame Judi Dench.
Read more: Five Reasons Avatar Still Won’t Win Best Picture -- Vulture http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2009/12/five_reasons_avatar_still_wont.html#ixzz0bHfXKDIq
Five Reasons Avatar Still Won’t Win Best Picture
12/28/09 at 3:30 PM Comment 32Comment 32Comments
Photo: Courtesy of Fox
We go on vacation for a few measly days, and look what happens: James Cameron's ecstatically reviewed, box-office-conquering Avatar is suddenly, improbably, the front-runner in this year's Best Picture race. Far be it from us to tell the HMFIC what he can and can't do, but we still don't see the King of the World reigning on another Oscar night. After the jump, we count down the five biggest reasons why Avatar can't win the Academy's top award (or at least the five reasons we'll be surprised when Cameron swaggers up to the Oscar podium, spikes his award, and tells his haters to suck it in Na'vi).
1. The Special Effects.
When it was released in 1997, Titanic, too, had CGI impressive enough to distract from Cameron's tin-eared dialogue — but the film's clear focus was its sweeping, tragic, human-based love story (not that this helped Cameron get a nomination for his screenplay, of course). Avatar's script is serviceable, we guess, but have you heard a single person raving about anything but the movie's special effects? We have not.
2. The Academy: still snobby.
While it may be true that only whiny snobs are still complaining about Avatar's extravisual shortcomings, it's worth noting that the Academy's current membership is comprised primarily of whiny snobs. Remember last year, when they snubbed The Dark Knight in favor of The Reader? Or the year before that, in which the cumulative gross of the five Best Picture nominees was approximately half of what it costs to see Avatar in IMAX? Not since 2003's The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King have popcorn-allergic Oscar voters rewarded anything crowd-pleasing and blockbusting in the top category.
3. Screeners.
Another thing Academy members are snobby about is sharing recirculated movie-theater air with mouth-breathing non-Oscar-voting plebeians. Studios interested in winning awards generally have to furnish agoraphobic, non-theater-visiting voters with DVD copies of their movies — standard-definition, 2-D DVDs obviously incapable of showcasing the three-dimensional, IMAX-def glory that is Avatar.
4. Oscar still hates science fiction.
Like comedy, animation, and movies featuring brown people, science fiction has historically been ignored by the Academy Awards. No space-based movie has ever won Best Picture, and none have been nominated since E.T. in 1982 (it lost to Gandhi, which featured not a single alien).
5. Actors.
One argument for Avatar's Best Picture chances is that 3-D movies (and higher ticket prices) are the film industry's current best hope for longevity, and that the Academy might cast a vote for its own survival. Fat chance, we say: The organization's biggest contingent, by far, is actors, the very same people replaced by blue pixels on James Cameron's computer-generated, thespian-free Pandora. Sure, one could correctly argue that Avatar features the motion-captured performances of real human beings, but just try explaining that to technophobic ballot-wielding elderlies like Mickey Rooney and Dame Judi Dench.
Read more: Five Reasons Avatar Still Won’t Win Best Picture -- Vulture http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2009/12/five_reasons_avatar_still_wont.html#ixzz0bHfXKDIq
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I cannot reveal my plans over the internet.
People are watching me....looking for me in Pakistan etc....looking for any excuse to....
http://www.badongo.com/pic/7973920
Main reason for this? To bury a dark secret.
http://chiam-see-tong.blogspot.com/2009/08/now-available-in-pdf-format.html
I don't want to openly invite a drive-by shooting.
People are watching me....looking for me in Pakistan etc....looking for any excuse to....
http://www.badongo.com/pic/7973920
Main reason for this? To bury a dark secret.
http://chiam-see-tong.blogspot.com/2009/08/now-available-in-pdf-format.html
I don't want to openly invite a drive-by shooting.
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i went to second showing of avatar, now in a very small cinema.
just to see if imax is really much better.
and i can tell you. it is much better.
the sound system of imax is much much better.
the massive screen also bring the 3D alive, it was not as good on small screen.
even the glass they lend us to see 3d is worse.
this movie is made for imax 3d.
even you can. please please go and see in imax 3d. If you cannot, just go to biggest best screen you can see 3d near you. small theatre is not optimal.
BIGGER is better. BIGGER also mean the sound stage is better too, like listening to hifi in a big room than a small one.
I did not enjoy the second showing, due poor sound system, smaller screen.
just to see if imax is really much better.
and i can tell you. it is much better.
the sound system of imax is much much better.
the massive screen also bring the 3D alive, it was not as good on small screen.
even the glass they lend us to see 3d is worse.
this movie is made for imax 3d.
even you can. please please go and see in imax 3d. If you cannot, just go to biggest best screen you can see 3d near you. small theatre is not optimal.
BIGGER is better. BIGGER also mean the sound stage is better too, like listening to hifi in a big room than a small one.
I did not enjoy the second showing, due poor sound system, smaller screen.
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Washington, Jan 2 (IANS) US President Barack Obama and his family spent part of their New Year’s eve watching the 3D science fiction epic ‘Avatar’ in Hawaii.
The family, along with some friends, visited a movie theatre near their rented vacation home to watch James Cameron’s blockbuster, reports okmagazine.com.
The family had the theatre to themselves, officials said. Though "Avatar" is rating PG-13, eight-year-old Sasha Obama and 11-year-old Malia Obama were reportedly allowed to attend with their parents.
The Secret Service reportedly cleared a movie theater for the first family to take in the film.
The family, along with some friends, visited a movie theatre near their rented vacation home to watch James Cameron’s blockbuster, reports okmagazine.com.
The family had the theatre to themselves, officials said. Though "Avatar" is rating PG-13, eight-year-old Sasha Obama and 11-year-old Malia Obama were reportedly allowed to attend with their parents.
The Secret Service reportedly cleared a movie theater for the first family to take in the film.
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oh my god, this is so not a kid show, the banshee bite the marine and throw into death, hammerhead rhino charge and crush a marine, and viperwolf eat marine for breakfast. The great Leonopteryx grab a scoripon and throw against the floating mountain of pandora.
it is very violent film for small kids.
what is the president thinking???
it is very violent film for small kids.
what is the president thinking???
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Box Office - 'Avatar' Fastest to $1 Billion Worldwide
DateSunday, January 3, 2010 at 11:22AM
While it still has about $800 million to make to beat James Cameron's other box office wonder for the honor of the biggest movie of all time, Avatar crossed a billion dollars this weekend, already the fourth-highest-grossing movie ever on the worldwide stage. It took just three weeks to amass a billion, and it goes without saying that it's the fastest any movie has ever done that.
How did it do domestically? Another $68 million, a record for a third weekend, and a drop of just over 10% from last weekend. The total now stands at $352 million, meaning that an overwhelming amount of its total business is in foreign countries, which is something more and more movies are being built for. It won again, almost doubling Sherlock Holmes, which maintained second place with $38 million.
The Guy Ritchie reinvention of the world's top sleuth has now earned a respectable $141 million in ten days. The ceiling for this film looks to be around $225 - $250 million, which bodes well for Robert Downey, Jr.'s Iron Man 2 this summer. This weekend was about a typical 40% drop, and even if it loses half its audience over each of the next two weekends, the film should cross $200 million by January 17th.
Alvin and the Chipmunks took third place, earning $37 million, taking its total to $157 million. There's very little else to even pay attention to unless you're tracking The Blind Side, Up in the Air, or, surprisingly, The Princess and the Frog. Blind Side is now at $209 million, the Oscar darling Up in the Air is at $45 million, and seems destined for about $80 million before the Academy Awards (which could help it even more), and Disney's return to hand-drawn animation made another $10 million this weekend, so if nothing else, it's almost guaranteed not to lose money. It won't be a huge hit, but it's no longer a black eye.
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While it still has about $800 million to make to beat James Cameron's other box office wonder for the honor of the biggest movie of all time, Avatar crossed a billion dollars this weekend, already the fourth-highest-grossing movie ever on the worldwide stage. It took just three weeks to amass a billion, and it goes without saying that it's the fastest any movie has ever done that.
How did it do domestically? Another $68 million, a record for a third weekend, and a drop of just over 10% from last weekend. The total now stands at $352 million, meaning that an overwhelming amount of its total business is in foreign countries, which is something more and more movies are being built for. It won again, almost doubling Sherlock Holmes, which maintained second place with $38 million.
The Guy Ritchie reinvention of the world's top sleuth has now earned a respectable $141 million in ten days. The ceiling for this film looks to be around $225 - $250 million, which bodes well for Robert Downey, Jr.'s Iron Man 2 this summer. This weekend was about a typical 40% drop, and even if it loses half its audience over each of the next two weekends, the film should cross $200 million by January 17th.
Alvin and the Chipmunks took third place, earning $37 million, taking its total to $157 million. There's very little else to even pay attention to unless you're tracking The Blind Side, Up in the Air, or, surprisingly, The Princess and the Frog. Blind Side is now at $209 million, the Oscar darling Up in the Air is at $45 million, and seems destined for about $80 million before the Academy Awards (which could help it even more), and Disney's return to hand-drawn animation made another $10 million this weekend, so if nothing else, it's almost guaranteed not to lose money. It won't be a huge hit, but it's no longer a black eye.
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Alien Sex Scenes Cut from Avatar May Pop Up in DVD
While watching "Avatar" did you find yourself asking: How do they mate?
How do Avatar's Na'vi have sex? In a recent interview, Zoe Saldana explains that the film's outdoor mating scene were snipped to avoid an R rating. But they will likely be restored for the unrated, special-edition DVD. For impatient fetishists who must know now, they stick their tails together.
Says Saldana:
If you sync to your banshee and you’re syncing to a tree, why not sync into a person? I almost feel like you’ll have the most amazing orgasm, I guess. It was a very funny scene to shoot because there were so many technical things that sometimes you have to keep in mind that paying attention to all those might disrupt the fluidity of how a scene is supposed to take place. And because Jim was shooting for a PG-13 rating, we couldn’t move in certain directions. The motion would look a little too past the PG-13 rating standards. So it was really funny for Sam and me. We had a lot of giggles there.
While watching "Avatar" did you find yourself asking: How do they mate?
How do Avatar's Na'vi have sex? In a recent interview, Zoe Saldana explains that the film's outdoor mating scene were snipped to avoid an R rating. But they will likely be restored for the unrated, special-edition DVD. For impatient fetishists who must know now, they stick their tails together.
Says Saldana:
If you sync to your banshee and you’re syncing to a tree, why not sync into a person? I almost feel like you’ll have the most amazing orgasm, I guess. It was a very funny scene to shoot because there were so many technical things that sometimes you have to keep in mind that paying attention to all those might disrupt the fluidity of how a scene is supposed to take place. And because Jim was shooting for a PG-13 rating, we couldn’t move in certain directions. The motion would look a little too past the PG-13 rating standards. So it was really funny for Sam and me. We had a lot of giggles there.
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James Cameron's 'Avatar' hits China today
Chinese moviegoers are eagerly anticipating tonight's opening of James Cameron's science-fiction epic "Avatar."
Chinese cinemas will show the film in standard 35-mm format and new 2-D and 3-D formats along with a limited number of 12 IMAX 3-D screens nationwide.
Beijingers will have the chance to watch the first-ever 3-D in IMAX format at Wanda International Cineplex in the capital's Shijingshan district and at the UME Huaxing International Cinema in Haidian district.
Despite the favorable film market warmed up by a bevy of competing domestic films for the Chinese New Year, many new movies have adjusted their screening dates to avoid clashing with "Avatar." The foreign film "Sherlock Holmes" decided to give way to "Avatar" and will not be open in China until the second half of January
James Cameron's 'Avatar' hits China today
Chinese moviegoers are eagerly anticipating tonight's opening of James Cameron's science-fiction epic "Avatar."
Chinese cinemas will show the film in standard 35-mm format and new 2-D and 3-D formats along with a limited number of 12 IMAX 3-D screens nationwide.
Beijingers will have the chance to watch the first-ever 3-D in IMAX format at Wanda International Cineplex in the capital's Shijingshan district and at the UME Huaxing International Cinema in Haidian district.
Despite the favorable film market warmed up by a bevy of competing domestic films for the Chinese New Year, many new movies have adjusted their screening dates to avoid clashing with "Avatar." The foreign film "Sherlock Holmes" decided to give way to "Avatar" and will not be open in China until the second half of January
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they will love it
because the graphic is very good, they dun care about story, the bad guy are amercian.
any country, like middle east, japan, china, korea, africa and south amercia will love it, they dun like amercian, they will be happy to see US army get eaten up by monsters.
what? only one imax 3d in the whole china?
like that, how? Is it the stone age?
because the graphic is very good, they dun care about story, the bad guy are amercian.
any country, like middle east, japan, china, korea, africa and south amercia will love it, they dun like amercian, they will be happy to see US army get eaten up by monsters.
what? only one imax 3d in the whole china?
like that, how? Is it the stone age?
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