Avatar is already the 2nd most succesfull movie ever created.

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Avatar Lords Over Rings, Now No. 2 All Time

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Looks like James Cameron is the King of Middle Earth, too. With $1.14 billion worldwide and counting, Avatar has now overtaken the $1.1 billion raked in by 2003's The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King to become the second-highest-grossing film in history. In fact, Avatar is going so strong that what once seemed an out-of-this-world impossibility now seems within the realm of (virtual) reality. If the 20th Century Fox movie, which screens in both 2-D and 3-D formats, keeps up its current pace, it could catch the $1.8 billion in global ticket sales tallied by the Oscar-winning filmmaker's own Titanic. It that wasn't enough (and it never is in Tinseltown), Fox's FX cable »

 

 

 

All-Time Worldwide Box office

Rank	Title	Worldwide Box Office
1.	Titanic (1997)	$1,835,300,000
2.	Avatar (2009)	$1,135,245,852
3.	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)	$1,129,219,252
4.	Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006)	$1,060,332,628
5.	The Dark Knight (2008)	$1,001,921,825
6.	Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001)	$968,657,891
7.	Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007)	$958,404,152
8.	Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007)	$937,000,866
9.	Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009)	$933,956,980
10.	Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999)	$922,379,000