The Mo and The Ro

Thats all she wrote folks!…………….

The last box office record fell to Avatar yesterday, Highest Grossing Film Domestically in North America!

We can now officially say to all competitors “I’ll take you out of the oven, ’cause you’re done!”

With the weekend box office figures now actualised the behemoth that goes by the name Avatar continues to shatter all perceived notions of what a “blockbuster” should be………..and is indeed on the fast track to being the first film to cross the $2 billion mark internationally!

Yep……you read that right……..TWO BILLION DOLLARS!

The sheer magnitude of Avatar’s success is insanity unto itself and most of Hollywoods elite are still reeling. Not to mention all the studios who have, in the past, refused to work with James Cameron. I’m sure he has only one sentence to say to these former naysayers………”Suck It!”………………LOL!

Avatar has now officially become the highest grossing movie of all time, passing previous record holder Titanic on Monday!

The even more amazing part to this story is that it did it in only 41 days! It took Titanic 5 months to reach the same amount and Avatar is still going unbelievably strong!

The other twist of course is that both Titanic and Avatar are James Cameron films, a feat not to be sniffed at, and pretty much makes him the real king of Hollywood!

Yep! That Titanic record is really beginning to look like a thing of the past!

After a fifth week on top domestically and continued HUGE box office internationally, Avatar is now sitting at approximately $1,620,491,649 about $200,000,000 shy of the record haul Titanic took in 1998. A record that most sane, rational people thought was untouchable!

Records are meant to be broken of course and it’s looking like a lock in to me!

Well……….it’s now official!

Avatar has successfully become the 2nd highest grossing film of all time globally behind James Cameron’s other little indie flick Titanic!

Avatar surpassed the previous # 2 on the list, The Lord Of The Rings: Return Of The King yesterday, and now sits at around the $1,137,800,000 mark. It is also truly remarkable to have the top two highest grossing films of  all time be made by the same director!

Something tells me that Ol’ Jimmy boy is not gonna be short of parking meter change anytime soon!……….If you’re reading Mr.Cameron…….long time fans needing a loan here!

With the weekend estimates now in, Avatar has taken in a whopping $73 million in it’s opening weekend! While this is at the low end of studio expectations, that figure still firmly places it as the second highest opening December weekend behind I Am Legend, and the biggest 3-D opening ever!

The other thing to take into account is that much of the east coast of the U.S was buried in record breaking snowfalls! So really the numbers are quite impressive.

Overall, despite the blizzard, box office was up a whopping 58 percent from last year, when the Jim Carrey comedy Yes Man was tops.