In their first day of head-to-head competition Alvin beat Avatar by a wide margin. Early reports indicate that on Wednesday, Alvin and the Chipmunks The Squeakquel with a first-day estimated total of $20 million bested the 3D blockbuster, which managed to scrape up "only" $16 million. The results came in after analysts had observed that the $16.4 million that Avatar had taken in on Monday and the $16 million that it earned on Tuesday represented record grosses for those days outside of summer and were the third-largest for those days ever. Alvin 's Wednesday victory posed no problem for Fox, which is releasing both movies. But it does appear to be coming at the expense of Disney's The Princess and the Frog , which earned only about $2.4 million on Wednesday, according to studio estimates.

24/12/2009