We know thatJames Cameron‘s Avatar has scan in a disk - disclose $ 1.34 billion internationally . But where precisely did Cameron make the most greenbacks off his epic of 10 - foot - grandiloquent sky-blue cat people who make erotic love with their coiffure ?
SCI FI Wirerecently compiled a handy chart delimit the blockbuster ’s take by country . As you could see here , Cameron ’s Terrans - and - pterodactyls epic did peculiarly boffo box bureau in Western Europe , Russia , and the Pacific Rim .
Argentina $ 1,355,873
Australia $ 49,284,892
Austria $ 6,390,284
Brazil $ 20,677,696
Bulgaria $ 1,750,831
Chile $ 4,129,164
France $ 69,084,433
Germany $ 54,057,488
Hong Kong $ 11,131,296
Japan $ 35,050,720
Mexico $ 23,376,392
New Zealand $ 4,487,227
Russia $ 41,599,901
Portugal $ 4,383,348
South Korea $ 48,571,075
Spain $ 46,154,230
Switzerland $ 7,480,763
Turkey 8,969,218
United States & Canada $ 430,846,514
United Kingdom $ 53,315,370
Other Foreign Sales 410,849,799
Given all the katzenjammer surrounding the picture ’s base ( heck , eventhe Vaticanchimed in yesterday , brand the 162 - min - long Zea mays everta picture show as “ a eye blink towards the pseudo - doctrine which have made ecology the organized religion of the millennium ” ) , we ’re just waiting for some brave social scientist to divine these statistic and influence what Avatar ’s box office take say about a country ’s national character . Here are some of io9 ’s nominate thesis titles :
– Na’vi Neo - Pantheism and Controlled Substance Policy in the Low Countries : A Comparative Analysis
– Blue Aliens , Red Legacy : Avatar ’s Heresthetical Pacifism Vis - à - Vis Russian Expansionism
– Bulgarians Do n’t Like Sam Worthington For Some Reason
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