The Titanic just hit an iceberg called Avatar.
James Cameron’s computer-animated blockbuster Avatar has officially topped the lenman’s 1997 period drama Titanic to become the world’s highest grossing movie ever, distributor 20th Century Fox said Tuesday.
The film — which stars Sigourney Weaver, Sam Worthington, and Zoe Saldana as blue creatures from a Utopian world called Pandora — was both written and directed by Cameron.
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 Titanic brought in from 1997-1998, 20th Century spokesman Greg Brilliant told Reuters this afternoon.
Audiences are enchanted with Avatar — 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 — just as Titanic did in 1998.