Now officially the most successful movie in history – at least in terms of box-office takings – ­James Cameron’s (USA) Avatar (USA, 2009) achieved the box-office triple, topping first the foreign chart (23 January 2010), then the world chart (25 January 2010) and finally the domestic (2 February 2010). It grossed a global total of $2,768,463,014 as of 23 September 2010.

First movie to gross over $2 billion