After Avatar fell behind The Book Of Eli on Friday, the box office behemoth roared back. Falling just 18% from last weekend, Avatar earned an estimated $41.3 million through Sunday, coming closer to the Titanic record.
The twelve estimated top producing motion pictures for the weekend, per data collected as of Sunday, January 17, 2010 include:
Rank | Title | Distributor | Weekend Gross | Cume | Locations |
1 | Avatar | 20th Century Fox (NYSE: NWS) | 41,300,000 | 491,767,005 | 3285 |
2 | The Book Of Eli | Warner Bros. (NYSE: TWX) | 31,615,000 | 31,615,000 | 3111 |
3 | The Lovely Bones | Paramount (NYSE: VIA and VIA.B) | 17,060,000 | 17,526,663 | 2563 |
4 | Alvin And The Chipmunks: The Squeakquel | 20th Century Fox (NYSE: NWS) | 11,500,000 | 192,591,843 | 3296 |
5 | Sherlock Holmes | Warner Bros. (NYSE: TWX) | 9,825,000 | 180,018,400 | 3173 |
6 | The Spy Next Door | Lionsgate (NYSE: LGF) | 9,700,000 | 9,700,000 | 2924 |
7 | It’s Complicated | Universal (NYSE: GE) | 7,671,510 | 88,223,335 | 2670 |
8 | Leap Year | Universal (NYSE: GE) | 5,827,840 | 17,529,010 | 2512 |
9 | The Blind Side | Warner Bros. (NYSE: TWX) | 5,565,000 | 226,774,265 | 2408 |
10 | Up In The Air | Paramount (NYSE: VIA and VIA.B) | 5,460,000 | 62,833,018 | 2107 |
11 | Daybreakers | Lionsgate (NYSE: LGF) | 5,000,000 | 24,188,401 | 2523 |
12 | Youth In Revolt | The Weinstein Company | 2,829,891 | 11,968,923 | 1873 |