James Cameron - What the hell?

Alright, so a brief note about James Cameron, Avatar, and box office Success. On December 18 a small film about love and trust finds it's way into theaters without much in the way of fanfare; Avatar. In two brief weeks it has racked in 283 811 000 in the domestic box office. This is pretty impressive haul for it's first two weeks especially when you consider it is wholly original (no Dances With Wolves jokes please) and had virtually no shot at a 100 million opening weekend.

Now with that said, would it really have been too much to ask for a measly 86,000 more dollars That is just two more people seeing it per screen! The idea that Twilight will end 2009 with a higher gross than Avatar is almost too much to bear...grrrr. Ahhh well, I suppose knowing it will pass it for good around 1pm January 1st is a small consolation.

Also, what is up with James Cameron and the box office? He's got Titanic, T and T2, True Lies, The Abyss, and Avatar all as box office successes. I'm not great with math but that's a success rate of roughly 100 percent? At this point in his career he can pretty much bankroll anything he wants to make himself, but he can also walk into any Executive Producer in the business, pitch a movie that stars himself taking a shit for 4 hours, and walk out with a 250 million dollar budget. Pretty nice place to be in your career.