Heavy snowfall on the East Coast slowed 20th Century Fox's high-stakes opening of "Avatar" to a solid but not spectacular studio-estimated $73 million this weekend in the U.S. and Canada, while international ticket sales totaled a spectacular $159.2 million.
[...]The ultimate profitability of the movie, however, will depend even more on its performance overseas, where "Avatar" is off to a phenomenal start. Its $159.2-million gross from 106 foreign countries is the seventh-biggest foreign launch of all time and the second-biggest outside of the summer movie season, just barely behind last month's "2012." The Roland Emmerich-directed disaster movie opened with $165 million and has gone on to collect more than $600 million overseas, and "Avatar" could easily do the same.
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