James Cameron's Avatar grossed another $6 million on Thursday, an 11 percent drop from Wednesday, according to Box Office Mojo. The sci-fi epic's total gross to date in the US/Canada is $380.5m. It's now the tenth biggest blockbuster ever at the domestic box office (not taking inflation/higher 3D/IMAX ticket prices into account), slightly ahead of Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith. Depending on how well it does over the weekend, by Monday Avatar could be somewhere between slots #4 and #8.
Written and directed by Cameron, Avatar stars Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Stephen Lang, Sigourney Weaver, Laz Alonso, Giovanni Ribisi, CCH Pounder, and West Studi. It's been nominated for both the Directors Guild and the Producers Guild awards, and it's up for a Best Film (drama) Golden Globe. Earlier today, Avatar received a nod from the Art Directors Guild.
Yesterday, most films had double-digit drops from the day before. Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes, starring Robert Downey Jr and Jude Law, remained in second place, with $1.9m, followed by Meryl Streep's It's Complicated ($1.3m, above, with Steve Martin), Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel ($1m), and George Clooney's Up in the Air ($765,000).
Rounding out the top ten were Sandra Bullock's The Blind Side, Disney's The Princess and the Frog, the Sarah Jessica Parker-Hugh Grant comedy Did You Hear About the Morgans?, Rob Marshall's musical Nine, and Clint Eastwood's Invictus.
The Robert Pattinson-Kristen Stewart-Taylor Lautner drama The Twilight Saga: New Moon was right on the heels of the Invictus rugby players, with $240,929.
Photo: Avatar (ILM / 20th Century Fox), It's Complicated (Melinda Sue Gordon / Universal)