Avatar Opens With $232 million Box Office Total

Date: 12/21/09 | Newsroom
Filed under: Hollywood, Zoe Saldana, Laz Alonso

'Avatar' might just be profitable, easing worries of those behind the $400 million film. According to final box office figures for the weekend, 'Avatar' soared to no.1 with $232.2 million in earnings worldwide.

In the United States the film raked in $73 million, slammed by the wide reported Northeast snowstorm. Overseas the flick, which stars, among others, Zoe Saldana and Laz Alonso, pulled in $159.2 million.

"What they spent on this movie was totally justified, and they're going to more than earn it back," Paul Dergarabedian, box-office analyst for Hollywood.com shared Sunday.

"Avatar" stars Sam Worthington and Zoe Saldana in a love story amid human-alien conflict on a distant moon in the 22nd century.