Any help with this appreciated, I maybe dealing with misinformation or have no knowledge of important factors.
When Avatar was released in 2010 it got all it's 2D screens cut (two thirds of the total screens).
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/entertainmentnewsbuzz/2010/01/avatar-pulled-from-2d-screens-by-chinese-government.html
"The movie will remain on nearly 900 3-D screens, which have so far generated $49 million, or 64% of its total ticket sales, according to Fox."
Using the above when the 2D was cut the run had grossed $76.6m total from all screens, so the remaining ~$127m came from 3D screenings. If the same ratio of 3D to 2D sales held up then that's approximately $70m that Avatar lost out on.
Does this sound right, am I missing something? I'm surprised by it because I've never heard it talked about before.
EDIT: Found a nice site following jan 2010 http://www.boxofficefollower.com/2010/01/
seems as though an unknown number of 2d screens were given back to Avatar, so Avatar may have only gone 3-4 days without 2d screens. This info is so hard to get hold of.