...but this stuff fascinates me! I am convinced even more than ever that Avatar will break all records, including overtaking Titanic, and not only gross $3 billion but will get there faster than Titanic got to $2 billion.
But the more interesting comparison is to "Dark Knight" which holds most of the records of getting to its totals faster than anyone else. See the following and scroll down to the "faster to" entries: http://boxofficemojo.com/alltime/ But Avatar after only 14 days has already passed Dark Knight in its foreign gross during its entire run. See: http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=avatar.htm ...and... http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=intl&id=darkknight.htm ...and even more interesting is that Avatar's per theatre domestic gross is holding steady while Dark Knight had a much higher initial per theatre domestic gross but then fell off sharply after a week or two. See: http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=daily&id=avatar.htm ...and... http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=daily&id=darkknight.htm Avatar appears to have staying power -- and this is my own guess -- an appeal to a much wider demographic than either Dark Knight (comic book geeks) and Titanic (teenagers who love Leo).
