It’s Official: Avatar Is the Number One Box Office Movie of All Time

Chalk one more up for James Cameron. After the wave of stories yesterday about how Avatar was almost #1, Avatar has cracked the threshold and is now the highest-grossing film of all time. With $1.8437 billion as of Sunday, Avatar topped Titanic‘s worldwide gross of $1.8432, though it’s still short of Titanic‘s box office in the U.S.

Sci Fi Wire:

Twentieth Century Fox said that the sci-fi epic had amassed an estimated global total box office take of $1.8437 billion, just ahead of Titanic’s worldwide total of $1,843,201,268, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

The worldwide crown isn’t adjusted for inflation, and Avatar’s high grosses were certainly boosted by higher ticket prices overall and especially for 3-D and IMAX screenings. (Check BoxOfficeMojo for the full list of inflation-adjusted grosses.)

(via Sci Fi Wire)

(note: an earlier version of this post used NY Daily News figures which inaccurately swapped foreign gross with overall gross. Oops.)