Inception Passes $500 Million Worldwide

Posted on Monday, August 16, 2010 at 5:43 pm by George

After a solid fifth weekend in North America and its third consecutive weekend atop the box office overseas, Inception became the sixth film of 2010 to cross the $500 million mark worldwide. Falling 39%, Inception ended its fifth North American weekend at #4 with $11,285,051. That three-day brought Inception’s domestic total to an impressive $248,469,482, and the sci-fi thriller should finish off somewhere around $290 million. Inception will not face much new competition over the next few weeks, so drops closer to (or even lower than) its earlier weekends are expected. An August 27th re-release for Avatar (with nine additional minutes) is the wild card, but currently set for only 750 theaters.

Foreign receipts dropped just 24.9% in 59 markets for a $35.9 million weekend, bringing Inception’s overseas total to $315.4 million. Inception put up the strongest numbers in Spain, with a second straight weekend at #1 for $2.9 million. The United Kingdom remains Inception’s largest foreign market at $44.7 million, with strong numbers in South Korea, Japan, and France following. $563.9 million is Inception’s worldwide tally after a month in theaters. Where do you think Inception will end its box office run?

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Chee

Re-release of Avatar? Oh James Cameron, you money-whore.
Dark enV

I think Inception will end around $270-$300 million domestically and around $700 million+ worldwide.
Alberto

I hope it will pass 1 billion.
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Jay

Around 730 million over all, I guess.

And what makes this James Cameron think that he should re-release it?
I don’t want my mind to be raped by this man or his li’l wish to gather a bunch of papers called ‘money’.
http://www.nolanfans.com George

Chee and Jay, do keep in mind that The Dark Knight had a re-release in January 2009 (and without the promise of any additional material).
EMIRC-DNIM

I HOPE INCEPTION GETS RE-RELEASED! IF NOT, BLU-RAY IS GOOD ENOUGH FOR ME
leagueofshadows

@EMRIC-DNIM. I hope the blu-ray comes in a small special edition brief-case.
Triplethor

To me the film in Italy Inception can break the bank at the box office!!!!!!!!!!!
brian

it will easily top $600 million world wide,…as its yet to open in China!
$700 million world wide is possible
brian

and for the anti-cameron folks above,,,please check your petty envy in at the door…try not to drag down Inception with your snipes at AVATAR
ThePointLady

and of course, its not finish..
ThePointLady

its not the decision of James Cameron to release Avatar again…he makes some money and what? like the others director i think…
Jenny

Anyway ! Inception is the Best !
jor

on s’en tape ! who cares !!!
Robert

Well unlike Cameron, Nolan doesn’t make films that rant about greed and excess while his AVATAR made as much money as the wealth of 3rd world country.

He’s made more than enough money to fund for another two trilogies, and yet still wants to milk millions from the audiences unhealthy obsession with his single brainless, black-white, childishly conceived film with the most the expensive wrapping.

Nolan on the other hand is humble and completely absent with an ego, with only the desire to make the best movie possible.
EMIRC-DNIM

@leagueofshadows, that, would, be, so, AWESOME!!!
NolaNvsNathaN

my dream blu ray inception special edition would be in an exact replica of the dream machine and when you press the main button (that makes you go to sleep) it opens up a compartment which holds the discs. (going down) the first dist would have a picture of level 1 and would contain the movie, second disc would be second level and have a feature length making of documentary, third disc would be level 3 and would have extra special features, and the fourth disc would be limbo, and would have (I know very unlikely) and never before seen extended cut! I would also love for it to come with cobb’s, arthur’s and ariadne’s totems. THAT WOULD BE AWESOME!!!!!!
Muhammad Anis

I hope it gets re-released, that would be awesome!!and plus everyone getting mad at the re-release of avatar is unneeded….TDK also had one, but think which better?
Richard

Okay, why do we think James Cameron’s re-release of Avatar was greedy and ALL HIS IDEA, but when Nolan re-releases The Dark Knight, it’s fine, probably a studio decision and it’s good for its box office?
Personally I think, greedy or not, director’s decision or studio decision, re-releasing massive successes is a good idea. Film is a business, after all, and a very risky one, too, so it makes sense for a studio to milk whatever money they can out of their biggest hits.
And it’s exactly this studio “greed” and “profiteering” that allows studios to take risks and give us great films like Inception.

And Robert, it sounds like you resent Avatar and James Cameron for his success. Even if you don’t like his films, it doesn’t mean that you should assume he’s a bad person with only the worst of intents.
brian

‘Well unlike Cameron, Nolan doesn’t make films that rant about greed and excess while his AVATAR made as much money as the wealth of 3rd world country’

films that rant about greed and excess…so you approve of greed and excessive?

You also criticise AVATAR for being…popular…! LOL

‘audiences unhealthy obsession with his single brainless, black-white, childishly conceived film with the most the expensive wrapping

AVATAR is so popular BECAUSE it struck a socia nerve)that you dont possess)that is angry at greedy excessive corporate indifference to the environment andd indigenous cultures…eg BP and the amazon indians…
brian

and i forgot:
‘He’s made more than enough money to fund for another two trilogies, and yet still wants to milk millions from the audiences unhealthy obsession with his single brainless, black-white, childishly conceived film with the most the expensive wrapping’

thats a rant! only you seem to favor greed and excess.
Robert

@Richard Difference is that The Dark Knight was a monumentous acheivement in film history by taking superhero films to unexplored territory. They re-released it to remind the Academy Awards that blockbusters can once in a while be works of art, and even rarer it’s about a guy wearing a cape.

AVATAR was nothing revolutionary, except with visuals that are supposedly used to compensate for a black-white, no intelligence required story. Odd that he himself declares that he complains about industry and capitalism and makes AVATAR that uses all the same workings at a ridiculous budget, uses McDonalds to promote the film, while living in his mansion. The Oscars came, they weren’t convinced, he lost and still wants people to watch it the most expensive way.

I like ‘most’ of Cameron’s films, though his only masterpiece was Terminator 2.
Robert

@brian
No I don’t approve of it, but I don’t want to be lectured and preached about it from a hypocrite. I’m not saying that other corporations don’t have greed or wish to excess, but it’s idiotic that the world’s largest anti-corporate film has used it to it’s fullest advantage.

“Industry is destroying the world.” Yet he spent $1/2 billion to make and promote it. How much paper, electricity, oil, etc. did he use? And let’s not forget the toys that came with every McDonald’s Happy Meal.

“Capitalism is the evil of man.” Yet you played the same cards like you did in ‘Titanic’ and make more money than entire 3rd World regions. And he knew he had a trilogy planned out, but he needs a huge amount of money to do it. So it’s all about money to fuel his enterprise that rants the exact thing he’s doing.
Robert

Anyone, name a few things that Nolan’s film preaches. Nolan just wants to entertain us with, not secretly use it as an advantage to let out his ego.

Inception, even though it’s all about the invasion of the most personal space, their minds, he didn’t preach or rant about how it would abuse human’s rights and give it political issues. He makes it be about people and how they’ll use that power for better or worse from a subjective standpoint.
brian

‘No I don’t approve of it, but I don’t want to be lectured and preached about it from a hypocrite. I’m not saying that other corporations don’t have greed or wish to excess, but it’s idiotic that the world’s largest anti-corporate film has used it to it’s fullest advantage.

“Industry is destroying the world.” Yet he spent $1/2 billion to make and promote it. How much paper, electricity, oil, etc. did he use? And let’s not forget the toys that came with every McDonald’s Happy Meal.

“Capitalism is the evil of man.” Yet you played the same cards like you did in ‘Titanic’ and make more money than entire 3rd World regions. And he knew he had a trilogy planned out, but he needs a huge amount of money to do it. So it’s all about money to fuel his enterprise that rants the exact thing he’s doing.
==========================

Lets congratulate Cameron in getting Fox to fund a film that is diametrically opposed to all that Murdoch and Fox believe in…
whose lecturing you? There were no lectures in the film, Robert…Its clear you object to Camerons telling it like it is….that showing a mining corporate consortium as they behave today on Earth….as the rest of your rant serves to indicate.
Or what would you featre in AVATAR if it were your film?
AVATAR is about the destruction of our world here and now by capitalist entities..and clearly you hate to be reminded of that.
brian

‘Anyone, name a few things that Nolan’s film preaches. Nolan just wants to entertain us with, not secretly use it as an advantage to let out his ego.’

Thats just pathetic…its also NOT what the mass of viewers wanted…as its popularity shows.
So just keep telling us you want a film with no politics no rerflection of our life here and now…just a candy floss entertainment…Well there are plenty of those…
Robert

It lectures by showing things in black-white context when they’re more complicating than that. By simplifying and reducing everything in real life in a movie to the flatest demoninator, it means you wants to tell you what to believe.

‘Under no circumstances is mining good. Mining is a stupid as unobtanium.’ But if you look at the backstory info, unobtanium is a energy resource that people of Earth depend on with their lives. But that’s deleted, disguising that what reason or motivation the humans have for coming here are ‘really’ for greed.

‘Humans are with few exception, evil and stupid. Na’vi are by no exceptions good and righteous.’ Only good humans are the traitors. And Eywa is suggesting that ‘god is on their side.’ Those humans are not even real people, just cardboard bad guys set up unrealistically by the filmmaker and knocked down to prove in the story how wrong that way of thinking is and how morally superior his own ideology is.

By such declarivication the workings of the film are, it doesn’t engage thinking, it tells what you should think. Nolan on the other hand shows the troubles of being a hero and the temptations of evil in a more difficult manner in The Dark Knight.

Personally, I suggest you check this out instead. He’s more subjective and thoughtful than just to rant or rave about things.
http://browse.deviantart.com/?qh=&section=&q=avatar+problems+solutions#/d2hdnk6
Robert

If AVATAR can even get just nominated for his film that most people can only point out anything great than just the visuals, than INCEPTION is a shoe-in to be triumph having visuals, stories, characters, and ideas that reach us people more deeply than just a rosy version of the wonders of nature and evils of humanity, our dreams.
brian

Ah Robert, AVATAR suffered at the oscars cause the voters, like you, were upset by the political elements in the film(didnt the preference for Hurt Locker enlighten you?!)…esp the Iraq war references..THATS why it lost…AVTAR has visualos, stories, ideas that reached many people who made it ..well the most popular film of the decade!

‘eviols of humanity’…not of humanity..just greedy corporate/private military contractor INhumanity…all of which can be seen in current events, which get ignorned by the corporate MSM.

‘It lectures by showing things in black-white’

life is black and white…

‘‘Under no circumstances is mining good. Mining is a stupid as unobtanium.’ But if you look at the backstory info, unobtanium is a energy resource that people of Earth depend on with their lives. But that’s deleted, disguising that what reason or motivation the humans have for coming here are ‘really’ for greed.’

Hmm..well here it is…your defence of mining would make you a good PR man for BP…after all our world is dependent on the unobtainium called OIL, which is now nuking the Gulf of Mexico…or hasnt that bit of news gotten past your censor?
Does your life depend on OIL? NO Do human lives in 2154 depend on Unobtainium? NO…if they did how did humans survive BEFORE these ‘necessities’ were discovered?
The Na’vi dont need Unobtainum…and they thrive…humans then as now are boxed in by industrial developments that discover new needs we never knew we had.

How many mofre Chernobyls and Gulf of Mexico apocalypses can humans stand before they get the message: we DONT need the UNOBTAINUMs..
after alll you get by without UNOBTAIMIUM…right? So do the Na’vi….
Robert

So you perfer politics than stories in movies now? That stories and characters should now just be props to serve the message rather than have a fleshed-out story with real characters natuarally bring up messages that serve the story? The only movie that deserved to win was UP.

Yes, it has done horrific damage, but Obama and others think that the best solution to this is to stop drilling in the Gulf. Which would cost the Gulf’s economy, including the fishing industry that’s been reliant on having local oil. Oil kills fish, but it’s also oil that fuels the boat to catch the most fish.

Oil is energy, fuel source that’s holding up society. It energy that transports food from farms to cities, transports goods from factories 100s of miles away, it gives fuel to take irrigation further, it fuels the power grid that’s running almost everything electric. All that you see everyday is made possible by the easy access of energy. Keep trying alternatives, but we found carbon-based fossil fuels to be the most powerful and reliable fuel source there is, but that’s unreplinishable. In fact statisically speaking if we’re to go back to a world without oil, localizing things again, our Earth and oil-free society then can only sustain 1 billion people. How will you handle the loss of 5 billion+ people?

Hey, I’m a believer of “Peak Oil,” but I know it’s not going to be easy to wind down with minmum damage, in fact it’s going to get nasty when everything gets more expensive and less accessible, but to you we can ‘just’ stop and everything will take care of itself.

How can they Humans in 2154 Earth go back? Jake said “There’s no green there, we killed our mother.” Check the background info. and you’ll see that it has 10 billion+ people and that it needs energy to maintain that or it’ll collapse. So humanity is at state where it can’t go back unless the they could help them, but in the end Jake decides to “Send them back to their dying world.” So he rather lets them suffer their richly deserved deaths for all he cares.

Life is nothing but “black and white?” Well I just presented you obstacles that you overlooked and crossed your mind. Ever consider Beaver Dams to be just as horrifically damaging to the ecosystem by how they block rivers? Oh, I thought only humans cause that sort of damage. The world is full of details, your just not bothering to look deeper and just round things up to make it simpler to comprehend.

This is getting awkward by how extensive this argument is going. True I made some declaritive statements, asking for a debate, but this article is all about Inception’s boxoffice success, so we’re carried away. To everyone else reading this, I’m sorry to get carried away, so I’ll wrap this up.

The more intelligence you put into decoding AVATAR, the less in-depth you realize it is. Like you, thinking life is just ‘black and white,’ yet going to so much trouble with the details of the environment and the colors of the plants
INCEPTION, while underwhelming at first, gets better every single second I look deeper in thinking about every frame, edit, and line of dialogue.
EMIRC-DNIM

Uhhhh, I thought this was Nolanfans.com. I clearly must be lost…
Robert

@EMIRC-DNIM
My apologies.
EMIRC-DNIM

@Robert, no need to apologize, my good sir. You were just expressing your thoughts and opinions (which I agree with…I think, I skimmed through yours and the other fellas’ conversation.)
einvaust

Avatar is good but still …
if i prefer movie to collect and watch again …i still take all Nolan movie.
First movie i watch is “Memento” … then got me falling in love on the way of interacting dialogue on movie.. feels like heavy guilt on poem or more like art … after that i watch “Insomnia” ..look very2 surprise how the role on actor Robin William became like that ..and the twisted plot with many heavy word.
Then Nolan still surprise me on “Batman Begins” … the story of hero more like humanism dramatic than a comical story …then came “The Dark Knight” make my vision on superheroes change …cause its look like hero is not only one man to protect the city …hero still only one human and more superb is the dialogue of course i never forget the joker on the that movie..( i said to myself ” man, this director is great …i will always watch movie he making in future”)
So then came “Inception” the summer box office that’s require us to think for 150 minutes and still i said myself …goddamn this director ..how he can make twisted movie so great ” all time until now….
Its not me that fanatic for only one director it just i love the movie …and all movie from Nolan until now still great to be watch again and again.
i have love many movie but when i see it my rack of collection …why i have Nolan movie (memento, insomnia, Batman Begins, The prestige and the dark knight) on the first rack then now i know i still saving my money wait to buy Inception first when they came out on Blue-Ray than Avatar.