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‘Avatar’ sales reach the sky

We all saw it coming, but it’s still impressive that it happened so quickly. Just six weeks after its release, “Avatar” is the highest-grossing film of all time. It took “Titanic” 10 months to reach that spot. But hey, James Cameron is still the money-makingest director pretty much of all time, so he isn’t going to be needing same day payday loans any time soon,

As of yesterday,  “Avatar” had made $ 1.86 billion, compared with “Titanic’s” $ 1.84 billion total. At the moment, “Avatar” still is making almost $ 2 million a day on weekends, so it still has time to add to it’s lead.

Revisionist history

Though “Avatar”is easily in the position of making the most money, the not-so-impressive part is that there is simply more money to be made nowadays because of ticket prices. “Gone with the Wind” has the records for most tickets sold, and it leaves “Avatar” in the dust by far.

“Gone with the Wind” sold 202 million tickets, and “Avatar” pales with a paltry 76 million. Obviously, the fact that Gone with the Wind is still around after 70 years, and occasionally still screened in theaters helps its numbers a bit. Also, when “Gone with the Wind” came out, people didn’t have nearly the selection to choose from that we have now.

Runners-up

The third highest-grossing film after “Avatar” and “Titanic” is “The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King” with $ 1.12 billion. Fourth is “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest” with $ 1.07 billion, and fifth is “The Dark Knight” with $ 1 billion.

“Avatar” still has one milestone to pass, however. Though it doesn’t hold the worldwide record for grosses, “Titanic” still holds the record in the U.S. sales with $ 600 million. “Avatar” would need to sell another $ 45 million to catch up.

Many films that were based on cruise ships were actually filmed on the ships of course there are many that wernt too. here are just some of the ones that you should certainly watch before you go on a cruise luxury cruises

Titanic

This film is easily the most famous of all the films set on ships. It is also one of the biggest money earners of all time bringing in a massive .8 Billion. Because the film actually cost over 0 million to make it makes it one of the most expensive films ever made. The film is actually based around two fictional people. A few characters within the movie that are based on real people.

Crusing out of control in Speed 2

It was given very poor reviews partly because of the fact many people didnt return to the sequel. Keanu Reeves didnt return to the film as he thought that the script was very poor. Dennis Hopper did also not want to return although it is unsure how they would have brought him back into it. As a whole this film was actually very bad. You have to watch this film because it has such a good ending.

The comedy favourite – Carry On Cruising

This is just one the films in the massive collection that is the Carry On series. This was the first in the franchise to be fimed in colour. It is on the list simply because it is my favourite film in the entire series and needed to be here because the whole of the film is set on a cruise ship.

So whether you are on your way to one of those cunard cruises or even a Silversea cruises make sure you check out these films first. Thinking about it, these films all spell diaster for cruise ships but do not worry as they are just movies right?