https://web.archive.org/web/20091204104206/http://www.boxofficemojo.com:80/alltime/world
Here's how the top 10 highest grossing films looked when Avatar was released, this is the monster you're up against.
Expect $4b.
Make an iron man trilogy, combine their gross
STILL CAN'T BEAT AVATAR
Make a batman trilogy, combine their gross
STILL CAN'T BEAT AVATAR
Take the phenomenon that is Black Panther, double it's gross.
STILL CAN'T BEAT AVATAR
100's of billions in Toy Sales
Most beloved global franchise in history
38 years of hype and movies
Bring most well known characters in Hollywood history back after 30 years
Biggest marketing campaign a film has ever seen
And...
*drum roll*
STILL CAN'T BEAT AVATAR
Why they making a show of Nolans batman! Thats my job
Always blows Nolanites minds IRL when I tell them Avatar grossed more than the entire batman trilogy. They NEVER believe me.
When we realised TLJ was not going to reach just half of Avatars WW gross it was mindblowing.
TLJ made less than 0.5A (half of Avatar), now it's an important milestone for big tent poles to reach 0.5A.
This, it matters the most by a large margin theres no denying that.
I mean some records are cool like OW but who cares who made money the fastest on an odd calender day in the month of may when the moon shines red and a shooting star appears over Vermont.
I've got a feeling he is going to go rogue. There are 4 films though so it might not happen straight away.
I think the collectors edition cut is the best as it fleshes out Graces as a character, you get to see her deep pain at what happened at the Na'vi school. Tsu'tey and Norm also had more scenes in the script but Jim couldn't release a 3hr 20m movie (shame). Norm has sex with trudey (michelle rodriguez), what a player
Asked me before this weekend I would have thought Titanic was toast, now it could go either way. I'm thinking DP2 and SOLO are going to be rough for it.