Snowstorm slows AVATAR: NA box office at $73 Million, worldwide opens with $232million!

Submitted by Kas Report on Sun, 12/20/2009 - 15:45

The massive East Coast snowstorm kept many theatre goers home and prevented James Cameron’s big budget technopic from setting box office records as Avatar is projected to bring in an impressive, but not staggering $73 million this weekend at the box office. Avatar did fantastically internationally, grossing $159.18M from 106 territories (the six territories that have not opened are Japan, China, Italy, Poland, Argentina, and Uruguay). With North America's slow-slowed grosses of $73M, that's a worldwide total of $232.18M which the studio says is the “highest original content (non-sequel, non-franchise) opening weekend ever”.

Set in the 22nd century, “Avatar” stars Sam Worthington and Zoe Saldana in a story of a human-alien conflict on a distant moon. The movie has received largely positive reviews from critics so far that's why the studios expected it to do so well in the box office.

Have you watched Avatar? Did you love it? Would you recommend it?

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