Monday Morning Box Office Report: Avatar Sticks it to Mad Mel

Posted by on February 1st, 2010   Filed under: Box Office
Source: IMDb

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Seven weeks after its debut, Avatar is still holding strong at #1, and on pace to overtake Titanic for the domestic box office record sometime this week. There is certainly nothing standing in its way, as no other movies have even come close to stopping its reign thus far. As far as this weekend’s new releases go, Mel Gibson’s Edge of Darkness grossed a mediocre $17 million, while the Kristen Bell rom-com When in Rome earned just $12 mil. The Tooth Fairy and The Book of Eli rounded out the top 5, while Legion slipped all the way down to #6. Both Sherlock Holmes and Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel still continue to make money as well, remaining in the top 10. So how long will it be before someone finally breaks Avatar’s stranglehold on the box office?

1. Avatar — $30M
2. Edge of Darkness — $17.1M
3. When in Rome — $12.1M
4. Tooth Fairy — $10M
5. The Book of Eli — $8.77M
6. Legion — $6.8M
7. The Lovely Bones — $4.74M
8. Sherlock Holmes — $4.51M
9. Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel — $4M
10. It’s Complicated — $3.72M



  • nothing will overtake Avatar, its over, I’m free to admit I’m a disciple of Eywa and James is her Jesus. This will be the last film released as Mr. Cameron has received word to start delivering the BLUE kool-aid to all of us mother nature destroying, meat puppets. I leave you now and return to the Tree of Life [pot].

  • Drewsifer

    So gay

  • Rusty

    If it’s not Feb 12th weekend I’ll be surprised. WOLFMAN should out perform AVATAR at this point. VALENTINES DAY may even get No. 1 that weekend. But if not then Shutter ISland will definitely beat it on the 19th.

  • Werner

    All the AVATAR haters must be so much in pain :P