Avatar still #1

The weekend box-office:

1. Avatar - $48.5 million ($429.04) - 4 wks (Fox) -29.2%
.....3422 screens / $14,173 per screen / $250 mil prod budget
2. Sherlock Holmes - $16.61 ($165.18) - 3 wks (WB) -54.6%
.....3626 / $4581 / $90
3. Alvin & Chipmunks 2 - $16.3 ($178.18) - 3 wks (Fox) -53.7%
.....3641 / $4477 / $75
4. Daybreakers - $15 - 1 wk (LG)
.....2523 / $5945 / $20
5. It's Complicated - $11.01 ($76.37) - 3 wks (U) -41.5%
.....2955 / $3725 / $85
6. Leap Year - $9.17 - 1 wk (U)
.....2511 / $3650 / $19
7. The Blind Side - $7.75 ($219.2) - 8 wks (WB) -34.9%
.....2880 / $2691 / $29
8. Up in the Air - $7.1 ($54.7) - 6 wks (Par) -33.8%
.....2218 / $3201 / $25
9. Youth in Revolt - $7 - 1 wk (Dim)
.....1873 / $3737 / $18
10. The Princess & the Frog - $4.7 ($92.6) - 7 wks (BV) -52.2%
.....2620 / $1794 / $105

Avatar is getting 75% of its ticket sales from 3D, which are $2-3 more per ticket, but even so, it's extraordinary for a film in this day and age to make $48.5 million over its fourth weekend of wide release. It actually has a chance of passing Titanic, domestically and globally.

Of the new films, the vampire craze fared the best with Daybreakers.