_Avatar_, directed by James Cameron

must be weird for Kathryn Bigelow that The Hurt Locker is probably gonna lose every major award to a movie her ex-husband made

I figure if Avatar got the Golden Globe it's gonna really clean up at the Oscars

possibly the best 3D effect of the whole experience was the Cheshire cat in the Alice in Wonderland trailer even though there's no way I'm actually gonna go see that movie. I'll totally see that NASA Hubble movie tho.

wait this won best picture over the hurt locker????

jesus fucking christ

Golden Globes, people. Golden Globes. Move along, nothing to see here.

I loved "Avatar" but Cameron's acceptance speech is really making me reconsider.

China pulls Avatar

things chinese people and na'vi have in common: they are both 8 feet tall and blue

they are both 3-d

s1ocki and nrq otm about the 3d bullshit. ice cr?m right about everything else though.

http://abadah.ytmnd.com/

lol

Step aside Titanic

ha remember when everyone was all lolhahaha dis gonna bomb dis gonna bomb? u just know cameron had to have made a pact with some kind of weird underwater spirit or something

I GIVE MY SOUL TO THE DEEP, IN EXCHANGE FOR 100 BAZILLION DOLLARS

i still really don't get it, but he also arranged for me to be laid off apparently so BOW DOWN BEFORE THE ONE YOU SERVE

but he also arranged for me to be laid off

you were part of the staff on Pandora?

(le fikshunal planit)

nah, i just mean he spoke with the powers that be and had me put on the dole to teach me a lesson

what did you do?

what the hell

he has a billion dollars folks
i am suggesting he is using it to crush those that doubt him
i am explaining a joke

it was well formed

sorry to hear that

my best to your family

they're working in the furry mines now

Avatar is also just like Titanic in that I don't personally know anyone who has been to see it, and yet it's the hugest movie in the world. I smell conspiracies!

Do they ever do these charts in terms of tickets sold rather than highest gross? Because, yeah, a big movie that a lot of people are going to see in IMAX at 2010 ticket prices is naturally going to gross an assload of cash. But I'd really be interested to see how many individual people paid money to see it.

Avatar is also just like Titanic in that I don't personally know anyone who has been to see it

You just aren't asking.

I know boxofficemojo tracks domestic rankings adjusted for inflation (Avatar is currently #26, Titanic #6, Gone with the Wind #1), but I don't see anything based on number of tickets.

boxofficemojo has an estimated tickets page, altho it's the same as their adjusted gross page and doesn't take avatar's high ticket price into account.

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/adjusted.htm?adjust_yr=1&p=.htm

if you added $3 to the average price of avatar's tickets, it would have around (7.35/10.35 * 76.8M =) 54.5 million tickets sold, placing it around #78.

Yeah, that sounds more like it. I know no one is claiming this, but I really have a hard time believing that Avatar is totally kicking the box office world's ass in terms of breaking ticket sale records.

Avatar 2 is being produced with a new filmmaking technology that will allow theater owners to project it against the nighttime sky! Of course, you're going to have to shell out an extra $4,000 for the disposable jetpack that will allow you to see it with the clarity with which it was meant to be seen...

Oh, look at that! We've broken another box office record!

i mean its making mad dollars but compare 3-d price today to reg tick price in 97

(the boxofficemojo page also ignores roadshow prices, doesn't adjust rereleased movies correctly, and probably a bunch of other things. i highly doubt fantasia was that popular.)

I think I remember reading that Fantasia was hugely popular. Disney and feature-length animation were very new at that point, and a feature-length animated Disney film that wasn't aimed solely at kids in 1940(?) would've surely been a big draw.

Hugely popular in its first run, I mean.

in Britannia the 3D glasses are a one time cost. Avatar costs as much as any other non-3D movie. Though yeah in general the gross is inflated because of that. not that Fox gives a flying shitting fuck.

Wikipedia:
Fantasia was originally released by Walt Disney Productions itself rather than RKO Radio Pictures, which normally distributed the Disney films, and exhibited as a two-hour and twenty minute roadshow film (counting the intermission) with reserved-seat engagements. The film opened to mixed critical reaction and failed to generate a large commercial audience, which left Disney in financial straits.

apparently the film didn't really pay off until 1969

yeah, i think it was a serious gamble that never really paid off until it hit rerelease xp

Well, that shut me up. Ha ha.

Fantasia + pot = profit

If only stoned kids had been around in the '40s to save it.

haha xp

http://media.photobucket.com/image/%25252760s%20fantasia%20poster/angral/fant.jpg

Avatar should have had a poster like this.

Fox said 72 percent of worldwide sales for “Avatar” came from 3-D screens. If Mr. Dergarabedian’s estimates are correct, the movie has accounted for roughly 56 million admissions in domestic theaters to date.

That is about the same number of tickets that “Titanic” had sold at this point in its theatrical run, he said.

But “Titanic” played and played, remaining in theaters until September 1998 and racking up about 128 million admissions. “Avatar” still needs a very long tail to surpass the number of viewers who saw “Titanic.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/27/movies/awardsseason/27record.html

Avatar Will Take Ya Far!

On Tuesday Tom Rothman, a chairman of the Fox film operation, said the global success of “Avatar” carried a lesson beyond economics. “It tells you all of us on the planet have more things in common than we have dividing us,” Mr. Rothman said.

man, it's like the end of Return Of The Jedi over there, aint it

I shudder trying to imagine what the Fox executive equivalent of "Yub Nub" is

Indigo & Ivory

http://queserasara.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/scrooge-mcduck.jpg

It tells you all of us on the planet have more things in common than we have dividing us