Shadow1980 said: If you count only Avatar's original theatrical run and ignore the re-release, then The Force Awakens has passed Avatar's inflation-adjusted gross. It will pass Avatar altogether after this weekend, making it the third-biggest movie released since 1980. |
This is far from being true. Avatar already made 2.7 billion by the time the re-release (August 2010) happened.There's no point in bringing it up as if Avatar would be behind Star Wars had the re-release not happened. Technically it's not even a re-release, it's more of an extension.