{"id":619137,"date":"2010-01-03T19:17:02","date_gmt":"2010-01-04T00:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/?p=86863"},"modified":"2010-01-03T19:17:02","modified_gmt":"2010-01-04T00:17:02","slug":"%e2%80%9cavatar%e2%80%9d-hits-1-billion-mark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/619137","title":{"rendered":"\u201cAvatar\u201d Hits $1 Billion Mark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>James Cameron\u2019s <em>Avatar<\/em> has reached the $1 billion mark at the international box office \u2014 making it the <em>Titanic<\/em> director\u2019s second film to reach the milestone.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.popcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Avatar-100-Million-Weekend-500x280.jpg?resize=500%2C280\" alt=\"\" title=\"Avatar-100-Million-Weekend\" width=\"500\" height=\"280\" class=\"alignright size-large wp-image-84919\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-86863\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The 3D epic &#8212; which has earned $352 million in North America &#8212; hit the mark after only 17 days in release.<\/p>\n<p>There have only been a handful of films that have ever passed the $1 billion marker \u2014 Cameron&#8217;s 1997 classic <em>Titanic, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man\u2019s Chest<\/em>, and <em>The Dark Knight<\/em>. While the blue aliens of Avatar would have to double their take to toppled Titanic, if the film tops The Lord of the Rings, it will become the second highest-grossing film of all time, making James Cameron responsible for the two top-grossing movies in history.<\/p>\n<p>Now that&#8217;s an accomplishment&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/gMLVfYEl9rkL_5ORKk42qn6fDBw\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/gMLVfYEl9rkL_5ORKk42qn6fDBw\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/gMLVfYEl9rkL_5ORKk42qn6fDBw\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/gMLVfYEl9rkL_5ORKk42qn6fDBw\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Cameron\u2019s Avatar has reached the $1 billion mark at the international box office \u2014 making it the Titanic director\u2019s second film to reach the milestone. The 3D epic &#8212; which has earned $352 million in North America &#8212; hit the mark after only 17 days in release. There have only been a handful of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-619137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2B45","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=619137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}