‘Avatar 2’ Passes ‘Titanic’ For Third on All-Time Box Office List

James Cameron simply beat … James Cameron.

It might need gave the impression of a pipe dream when the movie was popping out — particularly because it took over a dozen years for Avatar: The Way of Water to comply with Avatar. Supposedly, that film left no cultural impression. No one remembered Avatar, even thought it grew to become the largest movie of all-time. Avatar? What’s Avatar? Isn’t that that cartoon about individuals who can bend air?

No. Avatar is Avatar. It‘s about wild blue aliens with braids that they stick in dragons and fly in the sky. And this weekend, Avatar: The Way of Water grossed $2.244 billion at the worldwide box office — good enough to pass James Cameron’s different huge blockbuster, Titanic, with its $2.243 billion worldwide. That makes The Way of Water the third-biggest film ever — and implies that two of the three largest motion pictures in historical past are Avatar motion pictures. (And that three of the 4 largest motion pictures in historical past are James Cameron motion pictures.)

To commemorate the event, twentieth Century Studios launched this video:

After persevering with a sluggish, inexorable march up the all-time worldwide field workplace chart, this will lastly be the place Avatar: The Way of Water stays. The quantity two movie on the checklist, Avengers: Endgame, has $2.799 billion — greater than half a billion greater than The Way of Water at current. That’s going to be a tough quantity to match. And the unique Avatar is even farther forward than that — it’s obtained $2.923 billion worlwide, rather less than $700 million greater than its sequel at current. (For sake of comparability: That distinction is about how a lot Captain America: The Winter Soldier made in its whole run in theaters.)

Here’s what the all-time field workplace checklist appears to be like like now that The Way of Water has unseated Titanic…

Avatar: The Way of Water remains to be enjoying in theaters. Avatar 3 is at the moment scheduled to open in theaters on December 20, 2024. Where do we expect that one will wind up on this checklist?