{"id":492059,"date":"2026-06-10T07:36:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T07:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/492059\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T07:36:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T07:36:13","slug":"movies-that-made-1-billion-at-box-office-super-mario-galaxy-avatar-barbie-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/492059\/","title":{"rendered":"Movies That Made $1 Billion at Box Office: &#8216;Super Mario Galaxy,&#8217; &#8216;Avatar,&#8217; &#8216;Barbie,&#8217; More"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Worldwide gross: $2,343,477,301<\/p>\n<p>Two weeks after its premiere in movie theaters, Cameron&#8217;s first &#8220;Avatar&#8221; sequel had already grossed more than $1 billion at the box office, a rare feat during the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>It then became the second-fastest movie to <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/marisadellatto\/2023\/01\/22\/avatar-the-way-of-water-crosses-2-billion-in-box-office-sales-after-six-weeks\/?sh=3e436f705fb0\" data-track-click=\"{&quot;click_type&quot;:&quot;other&quot;,&quot;element_name&quot;:&quot;body_link&quot;,&quot;event&quot;:&quot;outbound_click&quot;}\">cross $2 billion in just 39 days<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>While discussing the digital release of &#8220;Avatar: The Way of Water,&#8221; <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/moviesanywhere.com\/movie\/avatar-2-2022\" data-track-click=\"{&quot;click_type&quot;:&quot;other&quot;,&quot;element_name&quot;:&quot;body_link&quot;,&quot;event&quot;:&quot;outbound_click&quot;}\">out March 28<\/a>, producer Jon Landau told Insider he and Cameron wondered if the sequel to the 2009 film would reach the number &#8220;Titanic&#8221; crossed at the box office.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was never nervous that people would lose interest because I didn&#8217;t think they needed to have interest. I thought we were making a new movie,&#8221; Landau said when asked if he was nervous that audiences may lose interest in an &#8220;Avatar&#8221; sequel after waiting more than a decade for it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I looked at this almost like an original piece of content that happened to be with known characters in a known world, but we were showing them in a new way. So I was nervous about how the movie would do because when you stop being nervous, you stop caring. But I was never worried,&#8221; Landau added of the movie&#8217;s strong box-office performance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Worldwide gross: $2,343,477,301 Two weeks after its premiere in movie theaters, Cameron&#8217;s first &#8220;Avatar&#8221; sequel had already grossed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":492060,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[93,61,60,270],"class_list":["post-492059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=492059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/492060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}