James Cameron’s Avatar has come within a tendril of the top grossing film of all time. As reported in the Hollywood Reporter, the film is now within easy reach of beating domestic and worldwide sales records set in 1997 by another Cameron epic, Titanic. The Reporter says Avatar came out of the weekend ranked number one domestically for the sixth week in a row, raking up $36 million for a total $553 million in the US. It s now only about $48 million shy of domestic box office sales for Titanic, and with audiences still attending in record numbers according to distributor Twentieth Century Fox. The film is even closer to beating the worldwide box office record, coming within about $2 million of Titanic after this weekend’s total tally of $1.841 billion. It has already set the international box office record, besting Titanic by about $50 million with $1.29 billion.
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