{"id":643875,"date":"2010-01-26T18:19:14","date_gmt":"2010-01-26T23:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/?p=90423"},"modified":"2010-01-26T18:19:14","modified_gmt":"2010-01-26T23:19:14","slug":"%e2%80%9cavatar%e2%80%9d-world%e2%80%99s-highest-grossing-movie-blue-aliens-sink-%e2%80%9ctitanic%e2%80%9d-with-1-859-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/643875","title":{"rendered":"\u201cAvatar\u201d World\u2019s Highest-Grossing Movie; Blue Aliens Sink \u201cTitanic\u201d With $1.859 Billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.popcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/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-90425\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Titanic just hit an iceberg called <em>Avatar<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>James Cameron&#8217;s computer-animated blockbuster <em>Avatar<\/em> has officially topped the lenman&#8217;s 1997 period drama <em>Titanic<\/em> to become the world&#8217;s highest grossing movie ever, distributor 20th Century Fox said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/avatar-worlds-highest-grossing-movie-blue-aliens-sink-titanic-with-1-859-billion\/titanic-3d-2\/' title='titanic-3D'><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.popcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/titanic-3D-150x150.jpg?resize=150%2C150\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" title=\"titanic-3D\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href='http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/avatar-worlds-highest-grossing-movie-blue-aliens-sink-titanic-with-1-859-billion\/goldenglobes-3\/' title='Avatar-100-Million-Weekend'><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.popcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Avatar-100-Million-Weekend-150x150.jpg?resize=150%2C150\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" title=\"Avatar-100-Million-Weekend\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-90423\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The film &#8212; which stars Sigourney Weaver, Sam Worthington, and Zoe Saldana as blue creatures from a Utopian world called Pandora &#8212; was both written and directed by Cameron.<\/p>\n<p>The sci-fi fantasy about a future war between giant blue aliens and humans, raked in $1.859 billion worldwide as of Monday, beating the $1.843 billion <em>Titanic<\/em> brought in from 1997-1998, 20th Century spokesman Greg Brilliant told <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vancouversun.com\/entertainment\/movie-guide\/Avatar+earns+highest+gross+history+Oscar+haul+unlikely+follow\/2487160\/story.html\">Reuters<\/a><\/em> this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Audiences are enchanted with <em>Avatar<\/em> &#8212; which features cutting edge cinematography and realistic animation. The epic topped the 2010 Golden Globes, winning Best Picture honors, and is also expected to win big at the Academy Awards &#8212; just as <em>Titanic<\/em> did in 1998.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Titanic just hit an iceberg called Avatar. James Cameron&#8217;s computer-animated blockbuster Avatar has officially topped the lenman&#8217;s 1997 period drama Titanic to become the world&#8217;s highest grossing movie ever, distributor 20th Century Fox said Tuesday. The film &#8212; which stars Sigourney Weaver, Sam Worthington, and Zoe Saldana as blue creatures from a Utopian world [&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-643875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Hv5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643875","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=643875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643875\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=643875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=643875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=643875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}