James Cameron’s science-fiction epic Avatar has shot past the $1 billion mark worldwide, making it only the fifth movie ever to achieve such a result at the international box office.
At the number one spot for a third consecutive weekend, 20th Century Fox’s Avatar raised its US domestic total to $352.1 million after just 17 days. The film added $133 million overseas to lift its international haul to $670 million, for a worldwide gross of $1.02 billion.
The latest figures make Avatar - the most expensive film ever made, with a budget of an estimated $300 million - one of only five films to top the $1 billion mark at the worldwide box office. The others are Titanic, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest and The Dark Knight.
With Avatar closing in on number two film The Return of the King, director James Cameron, who also directed Titanic, is in striking distance of having the two top-grossing movies globally.
“This is like a freight train out of control. It just keeps on going,” the BBC quoted 20th Century Fox distribution executive Bert Livingston as saying.
“I think everybody has to see Avatar once, even people who don’t normally go to the movies, they’ve heard about it and are saying, ”I have to see it”.
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