James Cameron’s “Avatar” is on a course to sink “Titanic” at the box office.
No. 1 for the sixth straight weekend, with $36 million, the 20th Century Fox sci-fi spectacle lifted its domestic total to $552.8 million, according to studio estimates.
“Avatar” raised its worldwide total to $1.841 billion. That’s $2 million shy of first place behind Cameron’s previous movie, the 1997 shipwreck epic “Titanic,” which made $1.843 billion.
“It defies all superlatives,” said Chris Aronson, head of distribution for Fox.
“We’re witnessing box-office history,” said Paul Dergarabedian of Hollywood.com.
“We’re watching all of these big records fall, and there doesn’t seem to be an end in sight. ‘Avatar’ is dominating at a time where it has no big summer blockbusters to compete with it. It’s perfectly poised to keep breaking all these records.”