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also Alvin and Chipmunks is another 20th Century Fox release this week. This was done to leverage against Avatar, if the movie was to take a hit. Alvin and the Chipmunks made 360 million dollars! and the cost was just 60 million, a whopping 300 million extra! The sequel is around the same budget and will easily cross the 250 million mark again, thus giving 20th century fox, the distributors for both Avatar and Alvin and Chipmunks, enough reason to smile and be relaxed. Overall the combined collections from both these movies and in the world market, will garuntee that the company walks away with healthy profits. These guys are all pretty smart folks. Yes things can go horribly wrong and we have seen how big budget movies massively flop, but i think this time they got this right. The timing, the budgets, the risk, the international exposure, everything combined is going to make all of this easily a profitable December venture.

Movie made a spectacular 170 million on the opening weekend in the international market. That is huge. On top of that the entire East Coast was under a severe storm past few days and many people did not go out. The movie will continue to make a good money for the next few weeks. The international market will pool in over 300 million and the domestic market will cross 250 million as well. Whether you like the movie or not, has nothing to do with the actual numbers. On top of that a movie like "New Moon" for example was pretty lame, but the numbers were good because of their target audience in girls. Avatar is a very intelligent, futuristic and spectacular visuals. The point is to stimulate imagination. We forget that we are on a planet suspended in space. Our future is space exploration and colonization and eventual cosmic voyages to distant stars in the next 500 to 1000 years. Cameron should be applauded for taking such a risk and making this so grand. The story perhaps will not excite everyone and that is fine. A movie like Dark Knight in my opinion was amazing, but millions actually did not even like the plot, the dark theme and the visuals. There can never be 100% consensus on these things. so relax guys, either enjoy the movie or watch something else.