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Financed on a medium budget and released to little fanfare, the sequel to the 1995 film Friday continues to outpace all expectations, with a total box office now topping $30m.
In the UK and Ireland, the film finished in fourteenth place for the year with a total box office gross of £3.84 million.
China has had a particularly good first quarter, with a total box office of $3.17 billion that surpassed the U.S. for the first time during that period, according to the state-run New China News Agency.
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It's officially the most successful Christmas film of all time with a total box-office taking of $530m internationally, not to mention the gargantuan subsequent VHS and DVD sales.
With a US total box office of just $31m and some of the worst reviews for a film this year, Alex Proyas's Gods of Egypt always looked like a disaster waiting to happen.
That made it the second most popular film of that year, after "Top Gun," and it was also a hit not only in Australia, where it made another $50 million, but also around the world, with an estimated total box office of more than $325 million.
When you adjust for inflation, though, and compare box office revenue on an even playing field, Avatar is actually number 14. Gone With the Wind, with a total domestic box office of less than $200 million is actually the leader, because it achieved that goal in 1939.
With a total worldwide box office of nearly $2.4 billion, the series is among the 15 top-grossing movie franchises ever made.
The film has done better overseas than in the U.S. with a total global box office of $195 million so far.
As of Monday, Ashton Kutcher's Steve Jobs biopic Jobs tiptoed into the black with a total domestic box office of $12.3 million to offset its $12 million budget.
Theatregoing is on the rise in the UK with more than 1,300 theatre venues in the country, according to Theatres Trust, with total box office sales hitting £470m in 2016 - up from £455m in 2015 [pdf].
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