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Avatar Poised to Sink Titanic

Sometime tonight or tomorrow, someone will purchase a ticket to Avatar that will push it past Titanic‘s worldwide box office record of $1,842,879,955.  It will be just the 11th film to hold this record since Birth of a Nation made $9,283,673 in its 1915 release.

Some other facts to put things in perspective:

  • James Cameron directed both Titanic and Avatar.  The only other director to make multiple worldwide record holders is Steven Spielberg.  (Jaws, E.T., Jurassic Park)
  • Avatar is still about $40 million behind Titanic in the domestic box office race.  (Domestic is U.S. and Canada combined)
  • Avatar has sold 76, 124, 100 tickets, domestically.
  • It is the best-selling movie since The Phantom Menace.  (domestic)
  • Avatar is the 26th best-selling movie of all time, just ahead of Thunderball and just behind Grease.  (domestic)

(numbers compiled by BoxOfficeMojo.com)