Maybe spending nearly half a billion dollars on a movie isn’t such a bad idea, after all. As CBS News reports, James Cameron’s latest blockbuster ‘Avatar’ has officially become the all-time biggest box office success, dethroning, of course, the director’s own ‘Titanic,’ which kept the throne warm for more than a decade. The film has grossed a staggering $1.8 billion worldwide, and many expect it to eventually break through the once-unimaginable $2 billion ceiling.
Cameron had initially taken a lot of criticism for the seemingly absurd sums of money he was spending on his high-tech epic. As the notoriously self-assured mastermind behind ‘Aliens’ and the ‘Terminator’ franchise explained to CBS News, though, “You learn to tune all that out and just say, ‘Wait until people see the film. Then we’ll know if we’re in trouble or if we’re in good shape.'”
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