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Avatar Becomes Third Highest Grossing Film of All Time

January 7, 2010 By 5 Comments

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‘.

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  • obi

    Avatar kicks ass! Anyone who dismisses that film after seeing it once are pretencious fools just wanting to avoid the hype of it's brilliance. I know and so does everyone that the basic story is nothing new but the film was just stunning to watch.

    Heyuguys gets my vote on Totalfilm!

  • Ed Whitfield

    Before anyone gets too excited it's always worth remembering that it's only the third highest grossing hit in terms of unadjusted US dollars. Take inflation into account and it's current chart position is closer to 60 overall. Assuming it finishes on the projected $550m US domestic, that would push it up to 25 or thereabouts on the all time US box office chart, though it'd be higher worldwide. For a true blow by blow barometre of how popular a movie is, always look at the number of admissions – they never lie.

    Gone with the Wind is still the biggest movie of all time with around $1.3b in adjusted US dollars at the American box office. That's unlikely to be ever topped not least because tickets were much cheaper in 1939, obviously, and around 2 and half times as many people went to the cinema back then, compared to now.

  • http://www.heyuguys.co.uk HeyUGuys

    Great points Ed and all very valid. The fact any film can take that much money 70 odd years ago is astonishing!