Titanic became the first movie to gross over $1 billion worldwide on March 1, 1998, in 74 days of release.
It's only the fifth movie of pandemic times to join the $1 billion club, following “Spider-Man: No Way Home,” “Top Gun: Maverick,” “Jurassic World Dominion” and “Avatar: The Way of Water.” “The Super Mario Bros.
Jaws – the tale of a seaside town (Amity) terrorised by a great white shark – swiftly proved to be a cinematic sensation.
"Titanic" (1997)
The James Cameron-directed film was the first movie to cross $1 billion worldwide. At the time, it was the most expensive movie made. The film finally crossed $2 billion during its rerelease in 3D in 2012.
The first actor to break the $1 million threshold was Marlon Brando (USA), who was paid $1.25 million (£400,500) – equivalent today to $8.8 million; £6.1 million – for his starring role as Fletcher Christian in Mutiny on the Bounty (USA, 1962).
1. Background Information: Introducing "Logistics" The longest movie ever made is titled "Logistics" and was first released in 2012. This experimental film was conceived and directed by two Swedish artists, Erika Magnusson, and Daniel Andersson.
The Lumière Brothers
Thus, the first-ever public screening of a film was in Paris in 1895. However, it was not of one single film but of 10 different short films, each one no more than a minute long, the most famous of which was the first, the La Sortie de l'usine Lumière à Lyon (Exit from the Lumière factory in Lyon).
It's especially impressive that “Avatar 2” managed to crack $2 billion, a benchmark that's been impossible in COVID times, because not every market is re-connecting with the Na'vi.
James Cameron's Avatar 2 creates history, beats Avengers Endgame's lifetime business. Avatar 2 Box Office Collection: Performing brilliantly, the film earned over 368.20 crores so far at the domestic box office. The second edition of the Avatar series - 'Avatar: The Way Of Water' was released on December 16, 2022.
Avatar, Jurassic Park, Titanic, Star Wars... We review the 53 films that have made history after raising more than a billion dollars.
Thanks to the making of a feature-length film with plenty of mo-cap to go around, Avatar showed creators the amazing potential of the technology, leading to its widespread use over the last decade and helped lay the groundwork for the motion capture technology of the Hulk in the MCU and the recent Planet of the Apes ...
The plot concerns a young man whose grandfather leaves him $1 million in a will, but a competing will from another relative requires he must spend the $1 million in the first year or forfeit a $7 million inheritance from the other relative.
Big Number
$2.92 billion. That is the total worldwide box office earnings for the original Avatar, which was released in 2009, making it the highest-grossing film of all time according to Box Office Mojo.
Coming in at 126 minutes, Fantasia is by far the longest Disney movie. This feat is all the more stunning in light of the fact that there have been nearly 60 films since then. That said, this movie is broken into 8 segments or episodes, each performed in sync with different works of classical music.
24 June 1916: Mary Pickford becomes Hollywood's first million-dollar actress.
Cameron's Avatar: The Way of Water has officially surpassed Titanic to become the third highest-grossing film of all-time and Titanic was, of course, also directed by the auteur.
The figure represents the combined gross of all movies in theaters on the weekend of December 25–27, 2009. Avatar grossed 28.0%. The Dark Knight grossed 60.7% of the previous record. Jurassic World grossed 76.2% of the record that surpassed Avatar's.
Only five films in history have ever grossed more than $2 billion, and all but one of them released in the past 13 years — Avatar (2009) with $2.899 billion, Avengers: Endgame (2019) with $2.794 billion, Titanic (1997) with $2.2 billion, Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens (2015) with $2.06 billion, and Avengers ...