It was a matter of time and it’s finally official: ‘Avatar: The Sense of Water’ has surpassed ‘Titanic’ and has become the third highest grossing film of all time of the cinema. The revival of the epic romance starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet has made it cost you a little more, but the sequel to ‘Avatar’ He already wears the symbolic bronze medal.
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‘Avatar 2’ accumulates to this day 2,243.3 million dollars, while ‘Titanic’ has 2,248.8 million. A pyrrhic victory for the moment, but set to grow remarkably in the coming weeks. Also, let’s remember that ‘Titanic’ has needed several reruns to reach that amount, something that has not happened in the case of ‘The sense of water’.
Which If it seems impossible, it is that ‘Avatar: The Sense of Water’ goes up a few more positions, since to snatch second place from ‘Avengers: Endgame’ he would need a miracle. To put it in figures, the Marvel Cinematic Universe tape adds 2,799.4 million, so the James Cameron film would have to add at least another 556.2 million.
It is going to be even more complicated if it wants to reach number 1, since ‘Avatar’ maintains the first position with 2,923.7 million dollars. It is true that a possible extended version of ‘The sense of water’ could give it a good push, but I think that not even with those would it simply reach the figures of ‘Avengers: Endgame’, so we better not even talk about its first installment.
In fact, the big question now is whether ‘Avatar 3’, which will hit theaters at the end of 2024, will also manage to sneak into the top five highest-grossing films in history. If so, James Cameron would be responsible for four of them, an unrepeatable milestone. It was already having three, as is currently the case, so four…
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