It looks like Avatar has finally met its match. The death blow came from a most unlikely quarter: the romantic drama Dear John. The latest movie to carry the “from the author of The Notebook” tag, Dear John opened to a stronger-than-expected $13.8 million on Friday and is now on its way to a projected weekend take in the $30 million range. Avatar brought in less than half of John‘s total – though its $6.1 million in week eight still smoked the estimated $3 million collected by From Paris with Love on its debut date. Avatar has lost Fridays in the past only to go on to victory in the weekend race. But on those occasions, the film’s margin of defeat was much smaller and there was no demographically-appealing sporting event looming. Avatar fans, start stealing yourselves for a second place finish… just in case.
| Title | Friday | Total | |
| 1 | Dear John | $13,800,000 | $13.8 |
| 2 | Avatar | $6,100,000 | $612.6 |
| 3 | From Paris w/Love | $3,000,000 | $3 |
| 4 | Edge of Darkness | $2,300,000 | $2.3 |
| 5 | When in Rome | $2,000,000 | $2 |
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Wow, how depressing. Avatar couldn't hold its bag for one more week to be beat by a respectable opponent like The Wolfman?
Damn shame isn't it? It loses to a damn romance movie that probably wont last two weeks.
Yeah. I suppose there is a slight hope that it might win (if for example Dear John behaves like Twilight and drops like a box of rocks on saturday and sunday), but somehow… I doubt it. Avatar-goers will be sitting in front of Super Bowl on Sunday while the women go and check out Dear John more than likely. I didn't see this coming, but I should have. Lol.
Was there ever any doubt?
stealing?
Yeah. I suppose there is a slight hope that it might win (if for example Dear John behaves like Twilight and drops like a box of rocks on saturday and sunday), but somehow… I doubt it. Avatar-goers will be sitting in front of Super Bowl on Sunday while the women go and check out Dear John more than likely. I didn't see this coming, but I should have. Lol.
Was there ever any doubt?
stealing?