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Box Office: Avatar 2 Officially Becomes Third Highest-Grossing Film Ever

Los Angeles, February 20 - James Cameron's Avatar: The Way of Water has officially raced past his own Titanic to become the third highest-grossing film ever at the global box office. ## The sci-fi sequel, released in December last year, has grossed $2.243 billion through 10th Sunday. Titanic, which had grossed $2.194 billion worldwide before a global 3D rerelease earlier this month, now stands at $2.242 billion globally as 4th highest-grossing title ever.## Avatar 2 has raked in $657 million at the domestic (North America) box office, becoming the 9th biggest movie of all time there. Overseas, it has scored $1.59 billion over 52 markets. The movie is eyeing a $2.3+ billion lifetime total which will still keep it at number 3. ## The top 10 international markets of Avatar 2 through the 10th Sunday are as follows: China ($248.10 million), France ($147.9 million), Germany ($138 million), Korea ($107.50 million), the UK ($91.6 million), Australia ($62.3 million), India ($59 million), Mexico ($55.5 million), Spain ($52 million), and Italy ($48 million). ## The all-time list of the highest-grossing films is topped by Cameron's original Avatar ($2.92 billion), followed by the Russo brothers' Avengers: Endgame ($2.79 billion). ## Stay tuned...

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920 days ago

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James Cameron's 'Titanic' And 'Avatar 2' Compete To Become Third Highest-Grossing Film Ever

Los Angeles, February 13 - James Cameron's two blockbusters are going at each other to become the 3rd highest-grossing film of all time. ## The master storyteller's latest blockbuster "Avatar: The Way of Water" is continuing its winning march at the global box office another $25.8 million in its 9th weekend to take its total gross collection to $2.21 billion.## "Avatar 2" had surpassed "Titanic" to become the 3rd highest-grossing film ever but the latter reclaimed that spot upon its re-release to commemorate its 25th anniversary. The classic blockbuster by Cameron grossed a strong $22.3 million in its re-release opening weekend, pushing total global cume to $2.21 billion. ## "Titanic" was just $3 million ahead of "Avatar 2" after the just concluded weekend, and at the time of penning this piece, the latter might have surpassed the former to become the new number 3 movie ever. The official numbers are awaited. ## Irrespective of which movie is number 3 or 4, it's James Cameron who must be having a party. In fact, among the top 5 biggest grosser ever, James Cameron is the owner of three films that included "Avatar" at number 1 with $2.91 billion, "Avatar 2" at number 3 with $2.21 billion and "Titanic" at number 4 with $2.21 billion. ## Stay tuned...

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921 days ago

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Titanic Re-release Off To Strong Start At The North American Box Office

Los Angeles, February 11 - James Cameron's classic blockbuster "Titanic" returns to the theaters to commemorate its 25th anniversary. ## Released by Paramount in 2,464 locations, "Titanic" re-release grossed a strong $6.70 million opening weekend, including Thursday previews at the domestic (North America) box office.## The weekend total pushed "Titanic's" domestic gross to $666.10 million. The opening weekend of the film's re-release was better than the "Avengers: Endgame" and "Spider-Man: No Way Home" re-releases, which grossed $6.10 million and $5.40 million, respectively. ## Overseas, the "Titanic" re-release grossed a super strong $15.90 million on the opening weekend. It is currently the all-time 3rd highest-grossing film at the global box office with $2.21 billion. Cameron's latest blockbuster "Avatar: The Way of Water" has just crossed $2.20 million and is the 4th biggest movie.## Meanwhile, the re-release of "Titanic" has had a low start in India, grossing just approx. 1.50 crores on the weekend.## Stay tuned...

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1154 days ago

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James Cameron's 'Titanic' Remastered Version To Release In Theaters For Valentine's Day 2023

Los Angeles, June 24 - James Cameron's epic romantic and disaster blockbuster, Titanic will be returning to the theaters for one more time next year. ## The movie will be completing 25 years of its historical release next year and to celebrate its 25th anniversary, the remastered version of the film will be released worldwide during the Valentine's Day week 2023 in 3D 4K HDR and high frame rate. ## Disney Studio will handle the international release of "Titanic", beginning February 10, 2023, while Paramount has domestic (North America) rights and is expected to also set its date in the coming days, according to Deadline. Producer Jon Landau teased news of the "Titanic's" re-release at Disney's CineEurope presentation in Barcelona on Wednesday. There he showed off a 3D look at the remastered version. ## "Titanic" had originally debuted in movie theaters in November 1997, and it went on win 11 Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Editing, Best Original Song, and more. With an initial worldwide gross of over $1.84 billion, "Titanic" was the first film to reach the billion-dollar mark. ## A 3D version of "Titanic" came out in 2012. In total, Titanic is the No. 3 movie ever at the global box office with $2.2 billion. Of that, $659.4 million is from North America and $1.542B from overseas. Cameron's "Avatar" is the top movie of all time worldwide.## "Titanic" stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet as members of different social classes who fall in love aboard the ship during its ill-fated maiden voyage. Winslet got a nomination in the Best Actress category for her role as Rose DeWitt Bukater at the Academy Awards 1998.## Stay tuned...

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1270 days ago

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Spider-Man: No Way Home Surpasses Titanic's Original Worldwide Box Office Run

Mumbai, February 28 - Marvel/Sony Pictures' "Spider-Man: No Way Home" has clearly refused to die down at the box office, be it domestic or overseas.## The superhero movie, starring Tom Holland in the title role, grossed $12.8 million worldwide this weekend, pushing the global haul to $1.85 billion. The domestic cume stands at $779.9 million while overseas, it has grossed. $1.07 billion. ## In a major achievement, "Spider-Man: No Way Home" has surpassed "Titanic's" original 1997/1998 global box office run of $1.84 billion. Including revenue from the 2012 and 2017 reissues, "Titanic's" final global box office reached $2.2 billion, which is the 3rd biggest of all time. ## The Top 10 markets outside North America for "No Way Home" to date are the UK ($127.3M), Mexico ($76.2M), France ($65.2M), Korea ($63.1M), Australia ($67.9M), Brazil ($56.1M), Germany ($50M), Russia ($46.7M), India ($36.7M), Japan ($35.1M).## "Spider-Man: No Way Home" has already become the 3rd highest-grossing film of all time at the domestic (North America) box office by surpassing "Avatar's $759 million. The Jon Watts-directed is now eyeing to finish its domestic run between $795 million and $805 million. ## In the film, Peter Parker (Holland) asks Dr. Stephen Strange (Cumberbatch) to use magic to make his identity as Spider-Man a secret again following its public revelation at the end of Far From Home. When the spell goes wrong, the multiverse is broken open which allows visitors from alternate realities to enter Parker's universe.## The 3rd MCU Spider-Man movie also stars Zendaya, Benedict Cumberbatch, Jacob Batalon, Jon Favreau, Jamie Foxx, Willem Dafoe, Alfred Molina, Benedict Wong, Tony Revolori, Marisa Tomei, Andrew Garfield, and Tobey Maguire.## Stay tuned...

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1319 days ago

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'Spider-Man: No Way Home' Enters The List Of Top 10 Highest-Grossing Films Of All Time

Mumbai, January 10 - Marvel and Sony Pictures' "Spider-Man: No Way Home" is now on the elite list of the highest-grossing films worldwide of all time. With a $1.53 billion global cume, "No Way Home" is now the 8th highest-grossing film of all time. It surpassed "The Avengers" ($1.518B), and "Furious 7" ($1.516B) to break into the list of top 10 worldwide grosser. ## The Tom Holland-fronted superhero film is the biggest grossing title worldwide since "The Lion King" ($1.662 billion) in summer 2019. If "No Way Home" grosses a little over $100 million more worldwide, then it will cross "The Lion King" and "Jurassic World" ($1.67 billion) to become the 6th highest-grossing film of all time, and most likely to finish with that rank. ## The film's $1.53 billion come through $668.8 million domestically (North America), and $867.5 million overseas. Currently, it is the 6th biggest-grossing title in North America. It is likely to finish domestic box office run with number 4, ahead of "Black Panther" ($700M).## "Spider-Man: No Way Home's" grosses are phenomenal considering many factors. Unlike the other top grossers, this Jon Watts-directed was released amid the covid-19 pandemic and still going strong when the cases are on the rise again due to the highly infectious Omicron variant. Plus, most of the countries have announced fresh restrictions on theaters. Despite all the hurdles, "No Way Home" continues to attract moviegoers worldwide. ## Biggest All-Time Global Box Office Hits -## 1. $2.84B - Avatar## 2. $2.80B - Avengers: Endgame## 3. $2.19B - Titanic## 4. $2.07B - Star Wars - Force Awakens## 5. $2.05B - Avengers: Infinity War## 6. $1.67B - Jurassic World## 7. $1.64B - The Lion King (2019)## 8. $1.53B - Spider-Man: No Way Home## 9. $1.518B - The Avengers## 10. $1.516B - Furious 7## Stay tuned...

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1352 days ago

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Titanic Director James Cameron Details The Greatest Spider-Man Movie He Never Made

Mumbai, December 8 - Director James Cameron has helmed just 4 movies in the last 25 years and two of those - "Titanic" (1997), "Avatar" (2009), are among the highest-grossing films of all time. Even before Titanic, he directed films like "Aliens" (1986), and "Terminator 2: Judgment Day" (1991), which hold a special place in the cinematic world. ## However, despite being at the peak of his powers in the 90s, Cameron didn't get the opportunity to direct a Spider-Man movie, which he calls the "greatest film he never made". Cameron wrote about the Spider-Man film he wanted to make, in a book titled Tech Noir: The Art of James Cameron. He attempted to make a Spider-Man movie before the character made his big-screen debut with Sam Raimi's Spider-Man movie in 2002. ## Cameron told Screen Rant, as part of a roundtable promoting the book, that his version of Spider-Man was going to be "very different". "The first thing you've got to get your mind around", Cameron told Screen Crush, "is it's not Spider-Man. He goes by Spider-Man, but he's not Spider-Man. He's Spider-Kid. He's Spider-High-School-Kid. He's kind of geeky and nobody notices him and he's socially unpopular and all that stuff".## Cameron saw the film as "a metaphor for puberty and all the changes to your body, your anxieties about society, about society's expectations, your relationships with your gender of choice that you're attracted to, all those things", he added. The Oscar-winning filmmaker's Spider-Man movie would have had "a kind of gritty reality to it" as he wanted the story to take place in the real world rather than something mythical like Gotham City.## "I wanted to make something that had a kind of gritty reality to it. Superheroes in general always came off as kind of fanciful to me, and I wanted to do something that would have been more in the vein of Terminator and Aliens, that you buy into the reality right away. So you’re in a real world, you're not in some mythical Gotham City. Or Superman and the Daily Planet and all that sort of thing, where it always felt very kind of metaphorical and fairytale-like".## "I wanted it to be: It's New York. It's now. A guy gets bitten by a spider. He turns into this kid with these powers and he has this fantasy of being Spider-Man, and he makes this suit and it's terrible, and then he has to improve the suit, and his big problem is the damn suit. Things like that. I wanted to ground it in reality and ground it in universal human experience. I think it would have been a fun film to make", he added. ## He further revealed that his version of the superhero film was never off to the ground because the company he requested to buy the rights of the film went bankrupt. He even attempted to save it by going to 20th Century Fox and telling them to pick it up, but the company didn't want to get into a fight with Sony who, "had some very questionable attachment to the rights".## Meanwhile, Cameron is currently directing "Avatar 2", which is scheduled to release in December 2022. While he has produced films such as Alita: Battle Angel, the filmmaker has said that he will only direct Avatar movies, which are planned for 2024, 2026, and 2028, release apart from the currently in production for 2022 premiere. ## Stay tuned...

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When old man in Himalayas recognised Kate Winslet as Titanic girl

New Delhi, April 28 (IANS) Hollywood star Kate Winslet might have impressed fans many times over with her immense talent and glamour, but true-blue fans have always instantly remembered her as Rose in the 1997 blockbuster "Titanic". Winslet would realize as much during a trip to India after the film released.## "Titanic was everywhere. A couple of years after it came out, I went to India. I was walking in the foothills of the Himalayas, just me with my backpack on my back and a man came towards me with a walking stick -- he must have been 85 and was blind in one eye. He looked at me and said, 'You - Titanic'. I said yes and he just put his hand on his heart and said, 'Thank you'. I burst into tears. It really helped me understand how much that film had given to so many people," Winslet told Candis magazine, according to news18.com.## The actress starred in James Cameron's multiple-Oscar winning romantic tragedy opposite Leonardo DiCaprio.## Stay tuned...