M. Night Shyamalan and Tom Brady dethrone Avatar, at least for this week, at the weekend box office
James Cameron's reign of terror is over, welcome to Tom Brady's reign of terror!
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Avatar: The Way Of Water is done. Welcome to a new era of box office domination, one where Tom Brady and M. Night Shyamalan are the ones breaking records and rocketing up the list of biggest movies of all time… though, granted, neither of them have broken any records or made any impression on the all-time box office list the way Avatar has… and they almost certainly won’t… but, at least for this weekend, they both managed to top The Way Of Water at the domestic box office!
For the first time in about two months, something new is the number one movie in America: Shyamalan’s Knock At The Cabin, which opened to $14 million and was followed somewhat closely by 80 For Brady (the film that dares to ask: What if there was a popular athlete named Tom Brady?) with $12 million in its debut. Then we have the real stinky stinker, Avatar: The Way Of Water, which made a pathetic $10 million this week (and has made over $630 million in the U.S. alone after eight weeks).
Below that is Puss In Boots: The Last Wish, falling just short of Avatar once again (it made nearly $8 million), and then BTS: Yet To Come In Cinemas, which made a respectable $6 million from only 1,100 or so theaters (compared to Cabin’s 3,600). The rest of the list largely follows a pattern from previous weeks, with the one standout being a rerelease of the first two episodes of Churchy show The Chosen’s third season, which screened in theaters near the end of last year. They’re back now, for some reason, and they made over $3 million (meanwhile, the similarly Churchy Left Behind: Rise Of The Antichrist dropped over 90 percent from its surprise debut in the top 10 last week, making less than $200,000).
The full top 10 list from Box Office Mojo is below.
- Knock At The Cabin
- 80 For Brady
- Avatar: The Way Of Water
- Puss In Boots: The Last WIsh
- BTS: Yet To Come In Cinemas
- A Man Called Otto
- M3GAN
- Missing
- The Chosen Season 3: Episode 1 & 2
- Pathaan
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…Avatar: The Way Of Water…has made over $630 million in the U.S. alone…
I’ve read somewhere these box office estimates on average have a 99% margin of error.
You mean like a contractor’s estimate? Those are always quite reliable.
It’s actually made over 630 million doll hairs.
And using “Hollywood accounting”, it’s projected to never make a profit.
We saw “Women Talking” and you should too.
I would have seen it, but when I got notified about an advance screening I was out of town for Christmas. She Said seemed less interesting, but had better timing for my purposes.
Not even showing in my town. I live in the capitol of a state you know well and it’s so fucking backwards here that I nearly lose my mind on the daily.It’s hell and I can’t get out.
This seems to be a very common problem (the not showing part, not the backwards part (but that too)). Fortunately, you won’t lose much watching it on a TV when it comes to streaming or if you rent it. It’s not Top Gun.
Figures – I finally got around to seeing Avatar today. What am I, chopped liver?
(Don’t answer that.)
I bet James Cameron is FUCKING PISSED about being beaten by the Tom Brady movie. I guess I should’ve bet against him after all.“Tom Brady will NOT be cast in any future Avatar sequels. Repeat, WILL NOT.” – James Cameron loudly dictating a press release over the phone to some sobbing intern right now, probably
If you’d only paid the $5 million upcharge to see it in IMAX, you’d have put it over the top!
Why are they always chopping the liver? Can you not saute it whole?
There’s some pretty good recipes just a click away.
::Dr. Lecter has entered the chat::
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These ladies are all great, but the football bullshit aspect, along with the actual title, means I’m never seeing this. Fuck Tom Brady.
Hey, that’s the sequel: octogenarian gang-bang!
NGL, I was honestly not expecting any movie to topple Avatar 2 until Ant Man 3 came out.
I guess you think that’s pretty funny, huh AV Club? Well, I’ll tell you what’s not so funny: James Cameron is at home right now, crying like a little girl!