James Cameron had much to celebrate this New Year's weekend as his 3D outer-space epic Avatar continues to set records and earns another $68 million at the box office. The film, which was seen in 3,461 theaters made an average of $19,734 per theater for a weekend total of $68 million bringing its total gross over three weeks just north of $350 million. Much like Cameron's last feature film, Titanic did over a decade ago, Avatar crossed the $350 million mark in just 17 days and has now made $1 billion worldwide. The movie also set a new Near Year's Day weekend box office record with its earnings and had the highest third weekend gross for a movie domestically since Spider-Man in 2002. The film is on track to hit the $400 million mark by next weekend and surpass Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen as the highest grossing film of 2009, as well as break into the Top 10 of highest-grossing (domestic) movies of all time. - MovieWeb
