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According to Box Office Mojo, yesterday Avatar earned another $18.4 million at the US/Canada box office. After 13 days out, the total domestic gross of James Cameron’s sci-fi epic now stands at $268.9m. Avatar is officially the top December opener ever (having surpassed Will Smith’s I Am Legend) and it’s the sixth biggest grosser of 2009, following Michael Bay’s Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen ($402.1m), the Daniel Radcliffe franchise Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Pete Docter’s Up, the Robert Pattinson-Kristen Stewart-Taylor Lautner vehicle The Twilight Saga: New Moon, and The Hangover ($277.3m), starring Bradley Cooper.
Internationally, Avatar earned $36.9m on Wednesday, for a total of $525.3m. Approximately two-thirds of the film’s overall revenue has come from overseas. Worldwide cume to date (Wed.): $794.2m. The Best Wednesday in December record, however, still belongs to Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King ($34.4m on Day 1 in 2003), followed by The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers ($26.1m on Day 1 in 2002), and Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel ($18.8m on Day 1 last week).
As per the Box Office Mojo chart, also doing quite well this past Wednesday were Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel ($11.7m); the Guy Ritchie-directed Sherlock Holmes ($9.7m), starring Robert Downey Jr and Jude Law; and the Meryl Streep-Alec Baldwin-Steve Martin vehicle It’s Complicated ($4.4m).
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