James Cameron turns into the one director with three $2 billion movies

James Cameron Sunday joined an unique membership — that features solely him… He’s the one director in historical past to cross an enormous cash milestone with three movies.

That benchmark is the $2 billion line, which his newest movie – ‘Avatar: The Manner of Water’ – crossed on Sunday … now his third such movie to attain it on the worldwide field workplace. His different two crown jewels… ‘Avatar’ ($2.9B) and ‘Titanic’ ($2.1B).

Solely three different movies have crossed $2 billion… all owned by Disney. These embody ‘Avengers: Endgame’ (#2, $2.7B), ‘Star Wars: Episode VII – The Drive Awakens’ (#4, $2.071B) and ‘Avengers: Infinity Battle’ (#5, $2.052B). ‘Avatar 2’ is the sixth highest grossing movie of all time.

Previous to this weekend’s feat, Cameron shared house with the Russo Brothers … who directed each ‘Avengers’ movies – however he is outdone them and is in a league of his personal.

Bear in mind, ‘Manner of Water’ had solely been in theaters a month earlier than and adjusted earlier – so it reached a large quantity of ticket gross sales in file time… Nonetheless, the Russo’s technically received there sooner. . Whereas ‘A2’ solely took 37 days to cross the $2 billion end line, ‘Endgame’ swallowed all of it again in 2019… ringing that bell in an astonishing 11 days.

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