Sherlock Holmes tops Avatar at Record Setting Christmas Day Box Office
Posted on Saturday, December 26th, 2009 by Peter Sciretta
Guy Ritchie‘s Sherlock Holmes edged out James Cameron‘s Avatar to win Christmas Day at the box office, $24.9 million to $23.6 million. Avatar is currently tracking to smash $200 million in just 10 days of release (on Sunday) and should hit $250 million by Wednesday (in only 13 days of release).
But the bigger news is that, even though we’re in a recession, Christmas Day ticket sales have destroyed previous years records. The record for a Christmas Day opening was set last year when Marley and Me grossed $14.4 million. In fact, if you add the grosses of the the top three films of Christmas Day 2008 you would get $35 million. If you add the Christmas gross of this year’s top three films, you get $63 million. [reuters]
