Avatar' wins box office for third straight week' ב- 22:58

James Cameron's "Avatar" began 2010 by winning the domestic box office for a third straight weekend.

The 20'th Century Fox sci-fi film grossed $68.3 million over the New Year’s weekend, bringing its 17-day cumulative to $352.1 million. It marked the largest grossing weekend for any domestic film in its third week of release.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, "Avatar" also took in $133.5 million overseas during the weekend to bring its worldwide cumulative to $1.02 billion. That puts "Avatar" at No. 4 among the top global grossers of all time, behind Cameron's "Titanic" ($1.84 billion), Peter Jackson’s "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" ($1.12 billion) and Gore Verbinski's "The Pirates of the Caribbean
: Dead Man's Chest" ($1.07 billion).

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