xage

Looks like Valentines arrived early..Dear John sets to rule the weekend?


Friday Estimates:

1. Dear John $13,800,000
2. Avatar $6,200,000
3. From Paris with Love $3,000,000

Supermallet

Holy shit, I thought Valentine's Day would be the one to take Avatar down.

BJacks

It's super bowl weekend. I think it's traditionally pretty weak for films that skew male.

islandclaws

It's a sad day when something starring Channing Tatum takes down anything.

BJacks

QFT. The most boring leading man in the last decade.

JumpCutz

Only 6 million for Avatar? I knew that movie wouldn't have legs.

resinrats

Avatar, what a bomb.

superdeluxe

1 dear john $35,000,000 $35,000,000
2 avatar 3000 $23,000,000 $629,493,323
3 from paris with love $8,000,000 $8,000,000
4 edge of darkness $7,000,000 $29,092,480
5 the tooth fairy $6,750,000 $34,582,973
6 when in rome $6,125,000 $21,520,605
7 the book of eli $5,000,000 $82,327,805
8 crazy heart $3,500,000 $11,037,730
9 legion $3,500,000 $34,778,283
10 sherlock holmes $2,500,000 $201,449,296
11 the blind side $2,500,000 $241,526,369
12 up in the air $2,250,000 $76,581,193

Patman

It'll be funny if Avatar beats Dear John next weekend, though.

J. Farley

Any numbers for Frozen? I saw it earlier today and loved it. Surprising coming from the director of Hatchet.

xage

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/0..._n_256850.html

hardercore

Jim Cameron thinks Avatar will hit $2.5b worldwide, and $3b worldwide were it not for Alice in Wonderland taking away 3-D screens when it arrives. Thoughts?

zekeburger1979

I'm not surprised that Dear John beat Avatar. At work tonight, a group of 15 girls came in to get sandwiches and I overheard a couple of them talking about the movie. They sounded relieved that something right up their alley was in theaters.

xage

The Notebook is to be blamed (it was excessively overused as a promotional tagline for the movie)

DGibFen

So for box office superiority, a sci-fi film (Lost in Space - yes, you can tag it sci-fi) defeated Cameron's chick-flick (Titanic), and a chick-flick (Dear John) defeated Cameron's sci-fi film (Avatar). Makes sense.

maingon

me too. I cant believe Dear John did so well. Wonder how its going to far saturday and Sunday.

Patman

Ironic Symmetry.

RocShemp

It's the constant mention of The Notebook that has kept me far away from this movie.

big e

I feel kind of dumb asking this, but what's Dear John?

OldBoy

big screen adaptation of the tv series starring Judd Hirsch and Jere Burns. some say it was an odd idea adapting this particular series and i don't think Seyfried has the comedy chops to take on the Burns role, but when the Hollywood well runs dry...

MrSmearkase

Not to be confused with...

...both adaptations from the same author.

UGH

Brent L

I remember that show and the theme song and opening way too well for some reason.

I almost hadn't even heard of this movie until this thread.

Dr. DVD

I actually see Dear John getting a minor spike in ticket sales for it's late afternoon shows today (aka when the SuperBowl is on TV). I thought The Wolf Man might take down Avatar.

Avatar has already made its money, so it can now digress. While I have no plans to see the movie, I do think Amanda Seyfried is a talented actress and am happy to see her bounce back after the disaster that was Jennifer's Body.

Supermallet

She can also be seen weekly in Big Love.

xage

I think its a movie not produced in 3-D with no motion capture technology, no CGI effects and from the author of The Notebook