‘Avatar’ Rocks New Year’s with a gross $1.02B Return

James Cameron’s SciFi opus “Avatar” has just hit the big-time, with total revenues breaking the $1 Billion mark over New Years.

On the foreign front, Avatar grossed an enormous estimated $133 million, down around 13 percent from last weekend, and its total soared to $666.7 million in just 21 days, which is the fourth biggest haul ever. Throw in domestic’s $352.1 million, and the picture’s worldwide take crested the billion dollar mark. With $1.02 billion, it’s the fourth highest-grossing picture ever worldwide, surpassing The Dark Knight, and, in a matter of days, it will leap frog over The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King and Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest to claim second place behind Titanic’s $1.84 billion.

I guess folks dig them giant blue aliens afterall..

via Weekend Report: ‘Avatar’ Rocks New Year’s – Box Office Mojo.

This story written by Randall Hand

Randall Hand is a visualization scientist working for a federal research lab, aiding researchers to discover the insights buried within their terabyte datasets generated on some of the most powerful supercomputers in the world. He also runs VizWorld.com .

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