'Avatar: The Sense of Water' surpasses 'Titanic' and is already the third highest-grossing film in history

At $2,243.3 million,

has already surpassed

as the third-highest-grossing film in movie history without taking inflation into account.

The film, which was released last December, only took a little over two months to fill this position, which it has achieved even taking into account the theatrical re-release of Titanic on the occasion of its 25th

.

The relaunch has made the film starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet go from a worldwide collection of 2,194 million to 2,242.8 million dollars, according to US media published based on data from Comscore, the company that audits movie earnings. commercial.

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The list of highest-grossing films in history is led by

(2009), with 2,920 million dollars, followed by

(2019), which reached 2,790,000 million.

The second part of

is far from the next on the list and it seems difficult to reach it.

Even so, these results place James Cameron as the director of three of the four highest-grossing films in history.

About the box office results of his films, the director spoke a few days ago with EL PAÍS: “The box office matters to me because it means that the public enjoys what I do.

Personally, I no longer need to earn more money.”

Disney had more risk, which was gambling a lot in the production of a saga that it bought through the acquisition of Fox. The specialized website Deadline Hollywood estimates that the film cost about 460 million dollars and, during the campaign, James Cameron pointed to

magazine

that it was one of the "worst deals in history", since to get money it would have to "become the second or third highest grossing in history".

Now that it's done, Disney can breathe easy about the already-shot

, for which Cameron is working in post-production in New Zealand and which will arrive on December 20, 2024 with the addition of Oscar nominee Michelle Yeoh and the Spanish Oona Chaplin;

as well as

, of which about a third has been shot (since there will be a time jump) and that will be released in 2026, and the already written

, for 2028 and in which the characters will supposedly travel from Pandora to Earth.

will also fight to win up to four Oscars at the gala on March 12, including best film.

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Trailer for 'Avatar: The Sense of Water'

The premiere of

, starring Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldaña (who appears in the three highest-grossing films in history) and Sigourney Weaver, strongly boosted the film collection of 2022. In Spain it only took 13 days to position itself as the highest-grossing film of all of last year, and weeks ago it achieved the third national historical place, only surpassed by the first

and

(2014).

It also made the week following its premiere the week with the highest number of viewers in theaters.

At the same time, in the rest of the world it had surpassed $1 billion and was the sixth film in history to reach that mark in just two weeks.

The list of highest grossing films in history continues with

in fifth position (2,071 million dollars).

in sixth position (2,052 million), followed by

(1,921 million),

(1,671 million dollars), the 2019 version of

(1,663 million) and

in tenth position (1,520 million).