James Cameron is making history with his blockbuster Avatar by managing to collect more than 1.000 million dollars worldwide in just 17 days and managing to maintain the No. 1 in the USA for the third consecutive week, suffering only a 10% decrease in collection.
In this way, everything indicates that it can snatch Titanic, also from James Cameron, the honor of being the highest grossing film of all time in the world with a box office of 1.842 million dollars.
Of course, it should be noted that, as Avatar almost everyone is watching it in 3D, a movie ticket costs twice what a movie ticket cost in the year Titanic was released. Thus, we must not confuse the highest grossing movie with a movie with more viewers.
The film Avatar is already the fourth highest grossing film in history, only surpassed by The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, with 1.130 million (789 million euros); Pirates of the Caribbean with 1.060 million (740 million euros), and Batman, The Dark Knight, which narrowly passed the 1.000 billion mark.
This week, the Avatar movie It will exceed 1.130 billion for the film The Return of the King and will therefore become the second highest grossing film in history.
As it works these next two weeks, and everything indicates that it will work very well, it will be known if it will exceed the Titanic mark or not.