It’s been out a total of 21 days and yet still it has already become the third highest grossing film of all time THR report. James Cameron’s epic fantasy movie, Avatar movie seems to have captured the world by storm with loads of people I know still finding it hard to get tickets to the IMAX but with loads going to see it more than once.
THR reports: The Fox-distributed blockbuster has blown by the Disney actioner “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest” — which plundered $1.07 billion in global booty in 2006 — and is gunning for the second-top grosser, “The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King,” New Line’s 2003 fantasy sequel that conjured a $1.12 billion worldwide tally in 2003.
“Avatar’s” cume sits at $1.1 billion through Tuesday. That includes $367.5 million in domestic coin and a doubly stupendous $731.2 million in foreign lucre.
The number one grossing film of all time is Cameron’s own Titanic which brought in $1.84 billion and according to reports, they think Avatar could be in that region by next week. Could this be the first movie ever to top $2bn?!
You can see our review of Avatar here or, if you want to read a slightly different side of the story, you can read Barry’s ‘Why did I Hate Avatar here‘.
