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Originally Posted by Nehkara
BOX OFFICE UPDATE
James Cameron has done it again.
Avatar grossed $25 million on New Year's Day, setting it up perfectly to destroy the best-ever 3rd weekend record currently held by Spider-Man ($45 million). Early estimates suggest Avatar will earn ~$61 million this weekend.
If estimates are accurate, Avatar will end the weekend with over $340 million domestic and well over $800 million worldwide. Only 4 movies have ever broken the $1 billion worldwide mark, the most recent being The Dark Knight.
It looks as though, when the dust settles, Cameron will sit with not only the #1 movie at the box office ever, but probably #2 as well.
This is the top 5 as it stands today:
All-Time Worldwide Gross
1. Titanic ($1842.9 million)
2. LOTR: ROTK ($1119.1 million)
3. POTC: DMC ($1066.2 million)
4. The Dark Knight ($1001.9 million)
5. Harry Potter 1 ($974.7 million)
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It's inevitable at this point that Avatar will rank at least #2. I also hope that it beats titanic for 2 reasons:
1) It will encourage movie makers to take things to the next step. What Avatar did was create a whole new experience for the audience; and
2) It is humanities great shame that a movie as craptacular as Titanic is the highest grossing film of all time.