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Avatar Earnings – $2 Billion and Growing

Avatar Earnings - $2 Billion and Growing

Well Damn! That’s all I can say. Avatar is making money like there’s no tomorrow. Current Avatar’s earnings stepped over $2 Billion US making it the first movie in history to earn more than two billion dollars and Avatar is still showing. It’s a movie you can still go to see in a movie theater and you will sit in a sold out room – how much are the earnings going to grow once DVDs are released and once Lightstorm Entertainment starts milking obsessed Avatar fans with release of fan cards, figurines and whatever else can be utilized to make more money? Take a look at the picture above. If you split Avatar’s earnings into one hundred dollar bills, this is how big a pile you would get. Almost 24 palettes stacked up high with one hundred dollar bills. Damn!

According to Box Office Mojo, current Avatar’s earnings are exactly at $2,039,200.00 range. Of this total, 29.2% or $594.5 Million was earned in the USA, and 70.8% or 1,444.8 Million was earned overseas. Avatar is pretty damn popular all over the world, as you can see. And these earnings will not even reflect future earnings of 3D TV Manufacturers who will see lots of sales of their home 3D TV Sets thanks to Avatar. I saw the movie, I liked it, but it would never have occurred to me that it will be such massively successful. Just damn. Avatar’s earnings continue to grow. i predict more than $3 Billion when all is said and done and Avatar has earned a few Oscars.

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Avatar is NOT The Best Selling Movie of All Time – Far From It

Avatar is NOT The Best Selling Movie of All Time – Far From It

The world of movie making is all abuzz about Avatar because it’s become the highest earning movie of all time. In gross figures so far, Avatar has earned $1,858,562,198 worldwide (almost two billion dollars US). This makes Avatar the best gross earning movie of all time, but not the best selling movie of all time as many falsely claim. Avatar is actually far and some more from being the best selling movie of all time. Let me explain:

Titanic, a movie which as Avatar was also directed by James Cameron was the highest grossing movie up until a few days ago with $1,843,201,268 in earnings but when Titanic was released, the cost of a movie theater ticket was much lower than it is today. Cinemas rip us the movie goers off nowadays so gross earnings of latest movies are expectedly higher than gross earnings of movies from a few years back. Hence gross earnings are not a very good indicator of real movie popularity.

To get a better sense of which movie is the best selling movie of all time, one would have to take a look at ticket sales and that’s where Avatar lacks (albeit it still counts as a very popular movie). Throughout the history of filmmaking, there have been 25 movies that saw more movie theater tickets sold than Avatar. Above mentioned Titanic for example sold 128,345,900 tickets whereas Avatar only sold 76,421,000. Below is the list of top 20 movies of all time based on ticket sales:

1 Gone With the Wind (1939): 202,044,600
2 Star Wars (1977): 178,119,600
3 The Sound of Music (1965): 142,415,400
4 E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982): 141,854,300
5 The Ten Commandments (1956): 131,000,000
6 Titanic (1997): 128,345,900
7 Jaws (1975): 128,078,800
8 Doctor Zhivago (1965): 124,135,500
9 The Exorcist (1973): 110,568,700
10 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937): 109,000,000
11 101 Dalmatians (1961): 99,917,300
12 The Empire Strikes Back (1980): 98,180,600
13 Ben-Hur (1959): 98,000,000
14 Return of the Jedi (1983): 94,059,400
15 The Sting (1973): 89,142,900
16 Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981): 88,141,900
17 Jurassic Park (1993): 86,205,800
18 The Graduate (1967): 85,571,400
19 Star Wars: Episode I (1999): 84,825,800
20 Fantasia (1941): 83,043,500

It’s understandable that a movie which was released in times when a ticket cost 50 cents will not show gross earnings comparable to a movie which was released when a ticket cost $20. That’s why calling Avatar the best selling movie of all time is premature. It’s only best grossing movie of all time because seeing a movie today costs more than it did in 1997 when Titanic was released.

That being said, modern technologies make it much easier today for many people to see a movie without going to the movie theater. Gone with the Wind may be leading the list of ticket sales, but back then going to a movie theater was the only option for people to see the movie. When Titanic was released, certain technologies such as DVDs or VHS were already available making it easier to come by illegal pirated copies (bootlegs) which could have affected ticket sales. In case of Avatar, internet makes the option to see a bootlegged copy of the movie at any given moment from the comfort of your living room chair real, which must have affected ticket sales even more.

Because of wide availability of pirated movies, ticket sales can no longer be considered a solid benchmark of movie popularity, but it is better than taking gross sales only. Avatar is a great movie, don’t get me wrong. I saw it and loved it. I didn’t particularly think it was gonna get this insanely popular, but I did enjoy it and ranked it as one of the finest I have seen. It’s still far from the best movie made, though. Let’s not call it the best selling movie of all time, because it simply isn’t.

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Avatar Depression – New Condition You Experience After Seeing the Movie in 3D

Avatar Depression - New Condition You Experience After Seeing the Movie in 3D

It’s a new phenomenon. New medical condition. Many people who went to see Avatar in 3D report that they have experienced post movie depression upon realization that they were back on Earth, not on Pandora. The world seems grey after you have taken off the 3D glasses as the last line of Avatar credits rolls off the screen. This is what 2010 will be all about – people depressed because of a movie.

I have seen Avatar and loved it. Yes, it is a story that’s been beaten to death and yes, you know exactly what happens next, yet I still enjoyed it. After the movie I’ve moved on. But let’s put all movie making aside and focus on Avatar Depression. As you will see in a video below, CNN did a report about it and to get to the right answers, they’ve invited two seriously dumb people to comment on the phenomenon. Both have no clue what the eff they’re talking about and both are irritating to listen to.

Jo Piazza who’s an entertainment writer for CNN sounds like she’s got walnuts in her throat (or some other nuts) and what she says is so out of whack I was tearing my own nuts off to shove them down her throat so she could just shut the eff up. Obviously, Ms. Jo Piazza must have just found out about the internet yesterday. I don’t know why they employ people who spent last two decades living in a cave, but then again, it’s CNN. They also kiss Barack Obama’s ass which says it all.

Jo Piazza doesn’t understand the internet. She doesn’t know that what people say on the internet does not necessarily reflect who they really are. These people often have no other life so their on line acquaintances represent the community they want to fit in with. They will do and say anything they have to in order to get attention, for they lack it in real life. Jo Piazza has no grasp of this phenomenon whatsoever. How can she understand the Avatar depression phenomenon if sheer basics escape her lacking smarts.

Psychotherapist Stacy Kaiser was a little bit less clueless with her responses but also doesn’t get firm grasp of reality either. Then again, since her title bears word “psycho” she’s doomed to not understand what real people deal with and feel. Psychologists are as clueless about real people as they get.

People exaggerate. This simple premise is often overlooked by so called experts. People also pretend to be, have, or feel what they are not, don’t have or feel. That’s the way people are. Furthermore, people are affected by their surroundings. They respond to stimuli offered by those they are in contact with. If there is going to be something bad looking out of the Avatar depression, it will be in response to weak minded individuals giving in to the momentum created by attention seekers. However those weak individuals would flip sooner or later anyway. They just need the trigger. And Avatar Depression could easily be one if they focus on it intensively enough.

Duh, input from “experts” never ceases to amaze me. Just how dumb do you have to be to let bullshit out of your mouth on national TV. And how dumb are the people to eat that along with cherry on top. We’re doomed. The world is grey and flat. I want to live on Pandora. The video is below:

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