“Avatar” took yet another week at the box office, beating out a slew of newcomers including “Legion,” and “The Book Of Eli.” Avatar beat Titanic’s international record, becoming the number one movie off all time internationally as it closed on the domestic record.
The twelve estimated top producing motion pictures for the weekend, per data collected as of Sunday, January 24, 2010 include:
Rank | Title | Distributor | Weekend Gross | Cume | Locations |
1 | Avatar | 20th Century Fox (NYSE: NWS) | $36,000,000 | $552,797,418 | 3141 |
2 | Legion | Sony (NYSE: SNE) | $18,200,000 | $18,200,000 | 2476 |
3 | The Book Of Eli | Warner Bros. (NYSE: TWX) | $17,000,000 | $62,003,223 | 3111 |
4 | Tooth Fairy | 20th Century Fox (NYSE: NWS) | $14,500,000 | $14,500,000 | 3344 |
5 | The Lovely Bones | Paramount (NYSE: VIA and VIA.B) | $8,800,000 | $31,624,141 | 2571 |
6 | Sherlock Holmes | Warner Bros. (NYSE: TWX) | $7,115,000 | $191,563,783 | 2670 |
7 | Extraordinary Measures | CBS Films | $7,000,000 | $7,000,000 | 2549 |
8 | Alvin And The Chipmunks: The Squeakquel | 20th Century Fox (NYSE: NWS) | $6,500,000 | $204,236,844 | 2973 |
9 | It’s Complicated | Universal (NASDAQ: CMCSA) | $6,189,690 | $98,649,750 | 2301 |
10 | The Spy Next Door | Lionsgate (NYSE: LGF) | $4,750,000 | $18,710,115 | 2924 |
11 | The Blind Side | Warner Bros. (NYSE: TWX) | $4,515,000 | $234,027,266 | 1932 |
12 | Up In The Air | Paramount (NYSE: VIA and VIA.B) | $4,333,000 | $69,676,526 | 1707 |