Avatar (2009) - Box Office Mojo

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Domestic Total as of May. 24, 2010: $748,860,222
Distributor: Fox	Release Date: December 18, 2009
Genre: Sci-Fi Adventure	Runtime: 2 hrs. 40 min.
MPAA Rating: PG-13	Production Budget: N/A

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Total Lifetime Grosses

Domestic:	$748,860,222	27.5%
+ Foreign:	$1,978,000,000	72.5%

= Worldwide:	$2,726,860,222

Domestic Summary

Opening Weekend:	$77,025,481
(#1 rank, 3,452 theaters, $22,313 average)
% of Total Gross:	10.3%
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Widest Release:

3,461 theaters

In Release:

158 days / 22.6 weeks

The Players

Director:	James Cameron
Writer:	James Cameron
Actors:	Sam Worthington Zoe Saldana Sigourney Weaver Michelle Rodriguez Giovanni Ribisi
Producers:	James Cameron Jon Landau
Composer:	James Horner

2009 Academy Awards®

Nominated for Nine Oscars, Including Three Wins.
View full award breakdown...

Genres

Genre	Rank
3D	1
CGI Star	1
Disability - Paraplegic / Quadriplegic	1
Environmentalist	1
IMAX (Feature-length)	1
Sci-Fi - Adventure	1

Franchises

Franchise	Rank
Showdown: All Time Grossers	1
Showdown: Cameron Clash	1

Charts

Chart	Rank
All Time Domestic	1
All Time Adjusted	14
All Time Worldwide	1
Top Movies in the Past 365 Days	1
Yearly 2009	1
Yearly Opening Weekends 2009	5
Yearly PG-13 Rated 2009	1
Worldwide Openings	9
Worldwide Yearly 2009	1
Foreign Opening Weekends	6
Opening Weeks	17
Opening Day Gross	37
Single Day Gross	83
Non-Opening Friday Gross	9
Non-Opening Thursday Gross	13
Non-Opening Tuesday Gross	2
Non-Opening Wednesday Gross	2
Single Day Friday Gross	34
Single Day Monday Gross	7
Single Day Saturday Gross	32
Single Day Sunday Gross	21
Single Day Thursday Gross	17
Single Day Tuesday Gross	3
Single Day Wednesday Gross	15
Non-Holiday Monday Gross	2
Theater Averages (Wide Releases) - All Time	31
Theater Averages (Wide Releases) - All Time	133
Theater Averages (Wide Releases) - All Time	33
Theater Averages (Wide Releases) - All Time	48
Theater Averages (Wide Releases) - All Time	193
Theater Averages - Wide Opening Weekends	31
New Years Days	1
Christmas Days	2
Sunday Share of Opening Weekends	122
Opening Weekends	30
Opening Weekends - December	2
Opening Weekends - Holiday	6
Eleventh Weekends	2
Ninth Weekends	2
Tenth Weekends	2
Top 10-Day Grosses	9
Top 3-Day Grosses	28
Top 4-Day Grosses	28
Top 6-Day Grosses	24
Top 7-Day Grosses	23
Top 8-Day Grosses	18
Top 9-Day Grosses	14
Twelfth Weekends	2
Twelfth Weekends	3
Top 5-Day Grosses	25
Most Weekends at #1 (non-consecutive)	12
Most Weekends in Top 10 (non-consecutive)	63
Most Weekends in Top 5 (non-consecutive)	23
Consecutive Weekends At #1	10
Consecutive Weekends In Top 10	49
Consecutive Weekends In Top 5	17
Martin Lurther King 4-Day Holiday Weekends	1
President's Day 4-Day Holiday Weekends	13
Second Weekends	1
Third Weekends	1
Fourth Weekends	1
Fifth Weekends	1
Sixth Weekends	1
Seventh Weekends	1
Eighth Weekends	2
Smallest Drops, 3,000+ theaters (Super-Saturation)	10
Smallest Drops, 2,500+ theaters (Saturation)	20
Smallest Drops, 2,000+ theaters (Very Wide)	32
Smallest Drops, All Wide Releases	203
Rated PG-13	1
Rated PG-13, Opening Weekends	20
Widest Releases	167
Widest Opening Releases	154
Widest PG-13 Rated Openings	78
Widest PG-13 Rated Releases	88
Fastest to $100 million	26
Fastest to $150 million	20
Fastest to $200 million	10
Fastest to $250 million	6
Fastest to $300 million	3
Fastest to $350 million	2
Fastest to $400 million	2
Fastest to $450 million	2
Fastest to $500 million	1
Slowest to $100 million	391
Slowest to $200 million	88
Best Picture Nomination Effect	83
BOM Users' Grades	25
BOM Users' Grades (2009 Releases)	6
Charts (Premier Pass Users Only)	Rank
Highest All Time Rank (on February 4, 2010)	1
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