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Eqlypz said:
Hii itakuwa one of the worst movies ever made, maana wameanza kuitangaza tangu mwaka jana November.
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Kuitangaza movie kwa muda mrefu haina maana itakuwa mbaya. Ni promotion ili kuhakikisha inakuwa na mvuto wa hali ya juu na kuonwa na wengi ili waingize faida kubwa. Mfano Titanic ilianza kutangazwa nadhani mwaka au hata na zaidi kabla ya kuanza rasmi na hadi hii leo inashikilia rekodi ya kuingiza mapato makubwa kuliko sinema yoyote ile. Hii pia inaweza kuingiza mapato makubwa lakini sidhani kama itaifikia Titanic lakini inaweza kuwepo katika top 20.
 
Thanks. Kweli kuvuma sana hakumaanishi kitu kizuri au kibaya, kinampa mtu atafakari zaidi mara nyingi nyingi ili kuamua kutoa credit. Lakini mara nyingi twaambiwa kizuri chajiuza kibaya chajitembeza. Huoni contradiction hapo?

Leka
 
 
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Weekend Box Office: Another $48.5M for 'Avatar'

Frigid Heartland temps barely slow Cameron's 3D juggernaut; "Daybreakers" opens strong with $15M


By Daniel Frankel
Published: January 10, 2010

Studio Report Cards (Slideshow)
In a record-breaking year at the box office, TheWrap graded seven movie studios on their 2009's. Find out who made bank, who merely survived, and who lost their shirts despite the bonanza.

Despite record-cold temperatures across the Midwest, James Cameron 3D epic "Avatar" continued its history-making run at the domestic box office this weekend, with the second highest grossing film of all time taking in another $48.5 million, according to studio estimates.
Dropping just over 30 percent from New Year's weekend, The Fox-distributed movie, which should complete this weekend with $429 million in total North American gross, has now exceeded the $1.2 billion mark globally, with foreign totals due to be announced later on Sunday.

"Avatar" faced little competition from three new entries at the domestic box office this weekend.
Lionsgate vampire movie "Daybreakers," a $20 million R-rated horror film starring Ethan Hawke and Willem Dafoe, met its pre-release projection with a solid $15 million opening.
Meanwhile, Universal romantic comedy "Leap Year," which stars Amy Adams, got off to an adaquate $9.2 million start, just below the $10 million benchmark the studio was hoping for. Universal paid $19 million to Spyglass Entertainment to release the film in North America.
And Weinstein-distributed "Youth in Revolt" underperformed to the tune of $7 million. The R-rated comedy, which stars Michael Cera, has a reported production budget of $18 million.
With Bismarck, N.D. checking in at minus-37 degrees Saturday, and plenty of other locations across the U.S. andCanada reporting their own record lows, studio distributors were worried going into the weekend that the audience would stay home.
However, with the overall market generating about $147 million this weekend, about flat with the same week last year, the weather proved to be a minimal factor.
"I think some people might have gone to the movies to stay warm," theorized one distribution president.
Continuing to maintain its own heat after three weeks of release, Warner's "Sherlock Holmes" stayed in second place at the domestic box office with $16.6 million, a drop of just over 50 percent from last weekend. The $90 million action-oriented re-imagining, which stars a ripped and shredded Robert Downy Jr., has now grossed $165.2 million domestically and over $250 million worldwide, with its foreign total to be announced later on Sunday.
Just behind in third place, Fox's "Alvin and the Chipmunks" sequel will finish the three-day weekend period with about $16.3 million, bringing the $75 million family film's three-and-a-half-week domestic total to $178.2 million.
In fifth place, right behind "Daybreakers," Universal's "It's Complicated" dropped a respectable 41 percent in its fourth weekend to $11 million. The $80 million Nancy Meyers-directed romantic comedy has now grossed $76.4 million.
Also hanging strong in the top 10, but doing it after eight weeks of release, Warner's "The Blind Side' added another $7.6 million this weekend and is now up to $219.2 million domestically.
Money-losers dropping out of the top 10 this weekend included Weinstein's Rob Marshall-directed musical "Nine," which cratered 58 percent to $1.5 million. The $64 million film, which is nominated for three Golden Globes, lost 352 locations going into the weekend -- it played at 1,060 theaters – and it has only grossed $16.8 million to date.
Also dropping out of the top 10 in its fifth week, Warner-distributed Clint Eastwood film "Invictus" took in $1.6 million, bringing the $60 million movie's domestic total to just $33.4 million.
Distributors for both films hope that the upcoming Golden Globe Awards and Oscar nominations turn the momentum around for their respective films.
For its part, Fox has all the momentum it needs right now for "Avatar," but it seems like it'll need a big push to get it all the way to $1.8 billion globally, the all-time revenue benchmark established by Cameron's last film, "Titanic," over a decade ago.

Playing for nearly nine months from December 1997 through August 1998, that film got a 43 percent February bump following its Best Picture win at the Oscars.
"Avatar" should have real competition at the box office next weekend, when Warner opens Denzel Washington-starrer "The Book of Eli."
"Avatar" passed "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" as the highest grossing film in the last year this weekend.
 
Audiences experience 'Avatar' blues

By Jo Piazza, Special to CNN
January 11, 2010 8:06 a.m. EST


"Avatar" is on track to be the highest grossing film of all time, but some viewers say it leaves them depressed.


STORY HIGHLIGHTS
  • Some fans say James Cameron's "Avatar" may have been too real
  • "Avatar Forums" has a topic thread discussing depression over "Pandora being intangible"
  • Cameron's movie has pulled in more than $1.4 billion in worldwide box office


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(CNN) -- James Cameron's completely immersive spectacle "Avatar" may have been a little too real for some fans who say they have experienced depression and suicidal thoughts after seeing the film because they long to enjoy the beauty of the alien world Pandora.
On the fan forum site "Avatar Forums," a topic thread entitled "Ways to cope with the depression of the dream of Pandora being intangible," has received more than 1,000 posts from people experiencing depression and fans trying to help them cope. The topic became so popular last month that forum administrator Philippe Baghdassarian had to create a second thread so people could continue to post their confused feelings about the movie.

"I wasn't depressed myself. In fact the movie made me happy ," Baghdassarian said. "But I can understand why it made people depressed. The movie was so beautiful and it showed something we don't have here on Earth. I think people saw we could be living in a completely different world and that caused them to be depressed."

A post by a user called Elequin expresses an almost obsessive relationship with the film.
"That's all I have been doing as of late, searching the Internet for more info about 'Avatar.' I guess that helps. It's so hard I can't force myself to think that it's just a movie, and to get over it, that living like the Na'vi will never happen. I think I need a rebound movie," Elequin posted.

A user named Mike wrote on the fan Web site "Naviblue" that he contemplated suicide after seeing the movie.
"Ever since I went to see 'Avatar' I have been depressed. Watching the wonderful world of Pandora and all the Na'vi made me want to be one of them. I can't stop thinking about all the things that happened in the film and all of the tears and shivers I got from it," Mike posted. "I even contemplate suicide thinking that if I do it I will be rebirthed in a world similar to Pandora and the everything is the same as in 'Avatar.' "
Other fans have expressed feelings of disgust with the human race and disengagement with reality.

Cameron's movie, which has pulled in more than $1.4 billion in worldwide box office sales and could be on track to be the highest grossing film of all time, is set in the future when the Earth's resources have been pillaged by the human race. A greedy corporation is trying to mine the rare mineral unobtainium from the planet Pandora, which is inhabited by a peace-loving race of 7-foot tall, blue-skinned natives called the Na'vi.
In their race to mine for Pandora's resources, the humans clash with the Na'vi, leading to casualties on both sides. The world of Pandora is reminiscent of a prehistoric fantasyland, filled with dinosaur-like creatures mixed with the kinds of fauna you may find in the deep reaches of the ocean. Compared with life on Earth, Pandora is a beautiful, glowing utopia.

Ivar Hill posts to the "Avatar" forum page under the name Eltu. He wrote about his post-"Avatar" depression after he first saw the film earlier this month.
"When I woke up this morning after watching Avatar for the first time yesterday, the world seemed ... gray. It was like my whole life, everything I've done and worked for, lost its meaning," Hill wrote on the forum. "It just seems so ... meaningless. I still don't really see any reason to keep ... doing things at all. I live in a dying world."
Reached via e-mail in Sweden where he is studying game design, Hill, 17, explained that his feelings of despair made him desperately want to escape reality.

"One can say my depression was twofold: I was depressed because I really wanted to live in Pandora, which seemed like such a perfect place, but I was also depressed and disgusted with the sight of our world, what we have done to Earth. I so much wanted to escape reality," Hill said.

Cameron's special effects masterpiece is very lifelike, and the 3-D performance capture and CGI effects essentially allow the viewer to enter the alien world of Pandora for the movie's 2½-hour running time, which only lends to the separation anxiety some individuals experience when they depart the movie theater.

"Virtual life is not real life and it never will be, but this is the pinnacle of what we can build in a virtual presentation so far," said Dr. Stephan Quentzel, psychiatrist and Medical Director for the Louis Armstrong Center for Music and Medicine at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York. "It has taken the best of our technology to create this virtual world and real life will never be as utopian as it seems onscreen. It makes real life seem more imperfect."

Fans of the movie may find actor Stephen Lang, who plays the villainous Col. Miles Quaritch in the film, an enemy of the Na'vi people and their sacred ground, an unlikely sympathizer. But Lang says he can understand the connection people are feeling with the movie.

"Pandora is a pristine world and there is the synergy between all of the creatures of the planet and I think that strikes a deep chord within people that has a wishfulness and a wistfulness to it," Lang said. "James Cameron had the technical resources to go along with this incredibly fertile imagination of his and his dream is built out of the same things that other peoples' dreams are made of."

The bright side is that for Hill and others like him -- who became dissatisfied with their own lives and with our imperfect world after enjoying the fictional creation of James Cameron -- becoming a part of a community of like-minded people on an online forum has helped them emerge from the darkness.

"After discussing on the forums for a while now, my depression is beginning to fade away. Having taken a part in many discussions concerning all this has really, really helped me," Hill said. "Before, I had lost the reason to keep on living -- but now it feels like these feelings are gradually being replaced with others."

Quentzel said creating relationships with others is one of the keys to human happiness, and that even if those connections are occurring online they are better than nothing.
"Obviously there is community building in these forums," Quentzel said. "It may be technologically different from other community building, but it serves the same purpose."

Within the fan community, suggestions for battling feelings of depression after seeing the movie include things like playing "Avatar" video games or downloading the movie soundtrack, in addition to encouraging members to relate to other people outside the virtual realm and to seek out positive and constructive activities.
 
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