James Cameron is the first director to have 2 1 billion+ grossing movies. He will also have the top 2 grossing of all time (this and Titanic).

If he turns this into a trilogy like he said he might, if it was successful, there is potential for two more billion+ for him.

I'm pretty sure the Dark Knight fell short of 1 billion.

It just made it according to that site.

That movie cost so much yet they still pulled a nice profit from it.

yeah they rereleased it for a few weeks right before the Oscars in early 09 and that got them over 1 billion$

OT: Amazing, even given the amount of 3D sales, that's still massive. I think LOR:RotK took like 59 days to get to a billion and Titanic took like 98 days. I definitely hope Cameron makes a couple of sequels because I love this movie (despite some flaws) and it deserves every dollar it gets.

That's amazing.
I saw this movie yesterday expecting the visuals to be amazing and the story to be lacking. To my surprise, the visuals were amazing and the story was decent, making for an overall good movie. The 3D was definitely worth the extra $4-$5 for sure. I remember as a child the 3D being a sad gimmick, but now it's actually developed and very impressive.

well the need to make up for the game which is already selling for $20

Haha. Movie games never seem to do well. The same was true about Supehero games until Arkham Asylum upped the ante.

Nope, it just sqeaked past $ 1 billion.

Just to play Devil's Advocate, in the US Avatar is actually tracking just behind TDK (Avatar took 17 days to get to $350 Million and TDK did it in 14).  The non-US numbers however are really propelling it - although as noted many of those are higher priced 3D tickets - with an amazing split of US / non-US sales that is quite something.

Not that Cameron will care about TDK US numbers!  I doubt Avatar will have the legs to get to Titanic - you need obsessive teenage girls for that IMHO, just look at New Moon - but it's for sure going to tail out way above the next closest film to give Cameron unadjusted sales no 1 and 2 well clear of the pack.  Titanic is jus above $ 1.7 billion if I remember right (actually, it was over $1.8 Billion).  Avatar I think could get to $1.4 Billion or even $1.5 billion, although that assumes there is no huge collapse now the kids are back at school.