"Avatar" is the winner and new worldwide boxoffice champion.The chart below shows the top ten grossing regions of the world and as can be seen, the breakdown of revenue for Avatar is much more broad and diverse than that of Titanic (take note of China and Russia).
After six rounds on the foreign circuit, "Avatar" is now the biggest-grossing film of all time, as earlier predicted.
Distributor 20th Century Fox said the James Cameron mega-budget blockbuster's worldwide cume -- excluding Puerto Rico -- was through the weekend just $2 million shy of "Titanic's" global boxoffice record of $1.843 billion. (Boxoffice in Puerto Rico, although generated offshore, is considered by Fox as part of its domestic total.)
The distributor confirmed that "Titanic's" historic benchmark fell as of early Monday.
With less dependence on a number of markets to date, this tells me that haven't seen anything yet. Boxoffice Guru projects total revenues of ~$700 million domestically and well north of $2 billion worldwide when all is done... I think that may be a low ball estimate.
Source: Box Office Mojo
Great graph, as usual! James Cameron really got the Asian distribution system this time.
ReplyDeleteI think you meant "~$700 million domestically", not "billion".
indeed and updated
ReplyDeleteI'm always curious when I see charts like this, comparing totals from different time periods
ReplyDeleteinflation-adjusted or not?
They indicate that they try to account for this:
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/about/adjuster.htm
It looks like their sample chart of R movies:
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/domestic/mpaa.htm
...has the exorcist at $232.7MM which matches the "all-time" table entry for exorcist exactly, but only for domestic
Makes me think they are being coy but it really is adjusted
If so, Avatar is indeed the new winner, even in real terms
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