‘Avatar’ Sinks ‘Titanic’s’ Box Office Record

It’s official! Avatar is the world’s all-time highest-grossing film.

Yesterday the film surpassed the $1.843 billion global gross of James Cameron’s other epic blockbuster, Titanic. Avatar now holds the record$1.859 billion.

Avatar has to make about $46 million, however, to take the global domestic gross.

80% of the film’s domestic box-office gross accounts for the 3-D ticket sales. It’s even being reported that Avatar might even achieve the impossible – a $2 billion worldwide profit.

Edited: January 27th, 2010

Avatar Wins Best Picture

Avatar won several awards at the Golden Globes including the top one: Best Picture.

The box-office hit beat out The Hurt Locker, Inglourious Basterds, Precious and Up in the Air.

Director James Cameron also won the Best Director award, where he competed with Clint Eastwood (Invictus), Jason Reitman (Up in the Air), Quentin Tarantino (Inglourious Basterds) and his ex-wife Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker).

Photo: Paul Drinkwater/NBC

Edited: January 18th, 2010

‘Holmes’ Beats ‘Avatar’ on Christmas Day

This Christmas was one of the highest grossing Christmas weekends at the movies ever.

The box office earned an estimated $91 million, which was over $15 million from last year.

Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes, starring Robert Downey Jr., Jude Law and Rachel McAdams, came in first place at an impressive $24.8 million on Friday, while James Cameron’s Avatar earned only $23.5 million on Christmas day.

Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel rounded the top 3 with $14.5 million on Friday.

Did YOU see a movie during Christmas weekend? What did YOU see?

Edited: December 26th, 2009

‘Avatar’ Tops Weekend Box Office

It seems that the buzz for James Cameron’s anticipated film, Avatar has paid off. The film is currently number one at the box office making an estimated $73 million domestically – $232 million worldwide.

Although the number is lower than expected for the film, considering the record snowfall this weekend, Avatar still had a solid opening.

The Princess and the Frog, which held the number one spot last week hopped to second place making an estimated $12.2 million. The Blind Side took third place with $10.0 million, while Sarah Jessica Parker and Hugh Grant’s comedy film, Did You Hear About the Morgans? took $7 million for fourth place.

Did you catch Avatar? What did YOU think?

Edited: December 20th, 2009

‘Avatar’ Cast Covers Life Magazine

Avatar stars, Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver and director James Cameron each have their own individual cover for Life’s Special Issue Magazine.

The movie centers around “a paraplegic marine dispatched to the planet Pandora on a unique mission becomes torn between following his orders and protecting the world he feels is his home.”

Avatar opens in theaters today.

See behind-the-scenes photos of the Avatar stars, at Life.com.

More covers after the jump!

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Edited: December 18th, 2009

First Look: ‘Avatar’ Trailer

Edited: October 29th, 2009