Twentieth Century Fox’s amazing “Avatar” continues to set the world on fire as it crosses the billion dollar mark in global revenue.

The Director of Avatar, James Camron

Momentum, momentum, momentum as the box-office year of 2010 starts out with a James Camron sized bang. Only the director of “Titanic” could create another worldwide sensation of this magnitude. Hitting $1.022 billion in just 17 days of release, “Avatar” has silenced all the naysayers who were fixated on the film’s rather sizable budget and now has a real shot at becoming the second highest grossing film of all-time on a worldwide basis behind only “Titanic’s” incredible $1.8 billion global total. A second weekend drop on Christmas weekend of only 2% and this third weekend drop of only 10% is unprecedented in the annals of box-office tracking. Cameron proves he is not only a cinematic trailblazer, but a box-office one as well.

Worldwide Top 5 is as follows: Titanic - $1.842B
LOTR: Return of the King - $1.129B
Pirates: Dead Man’s Chest - $1.061B
Avatar - $1.022B and climbing
Dark Knight - $1.002B