{"id":7191,"date":"2019-05-09T11:42:32","date_gmt":"2019-05-09T18:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog-proxy.atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/?p=7191"},"modified":"2019-05-10T12:10:54","modified_gmt":"2019-05-10T19:10:54","slug":"james-cameron-congratulates-endgame-on-sinking-titanic-at-the-box-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/james-cameron-congratulates-avengers-endgame\/","title":{"rendered":"James Cameron Congratulates &#8216;Endgame&#8217; On Sinking &#8216;Titanic&#8217; At The Box Office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It took over 20 years, but <em>Titanic<\/em> was finally dethroned at the box office. By the Avengers.<\/p>\n<p>In honor of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.atomtickets.com\/movies\/avengers-endgame\/284981\"><em>Avengers: Endgame<\/em><\/a> passing James Cameron&#8217;s Oscar-winning epic to become <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/avengers-endgame-box-office-countdown\/\">the second-highest grossing movie of all time<\/a> with $2 billion worldwide (and climbing), the director congratulated Marvel and Earth&#8217;s Mightiest Heroes with this cool, custom image:<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 943px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/blog-proxy.atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/JamesCameron_TitanicSinksAvengers.jpg\" width=\"933\" height=\"1200\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Credit: Lightstorm Entertainment)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Cameron still has the number one movie of all time &#8212; <em>Avatar<\/em> &#8212; and\u00a0<em>Titanic<\/em>&#8216;s\u00a011 Oscars (including one for Best Picture). At the same time, given the recent surge of Hollywood&#8217;s output of tentpoles, it&#8217;s shocking that <em>Titanic <\/em>reigned at #2 for 22 years. The Top 10 movies of all-time contain eight films from the 2010s; the only two not from that time are Cameron&#8217;s blockbusters.<\/p>\n<p>Like\u00a0<em>Endgame<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Titanic\u00a0<\/em>is a wholly unique success story, the likes of which we may never see again. Plagued with bad buzz prior to its December 1997 release, the movie infamously went over budget and over-schedule, missing its planned July 1997 release date. Cameron overcame that by opening in the top spot opening weekend and staying there for four months straight &#8212; a feat that is completely unheard of and unmatched by any movie since. (Hilariously, 1998&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Lost In Space<\/em>\u00a0was the movie that finally knocked\u00a0<em>Titanic<\/em>\u00a0off its perch.)<\/p>\n<p><em>Endgame<\/em> currently sits at just shy of $2.2 billion at the global box office. Some Hollywood pundits believe it could eclipse\u00a0<em>Avatar<\/em>&#8216;s worldwide haul. If so, we&#8217;ll see another one of these images from Cameron and his friends from Pandora.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It took over 20 years, but Titanic was finally dethroned at the box office. By the Avengers. In honor of\u00a0Avengers: Endgame passing James Cameron&#8217;s Oscar-winning epic to become the second-highest grossing movie of all time with $2 billion worldwide (and climbing), the director congratulated Marvel and Earth&#8217;s Mightiest Heroes with this cool, custom image: &nbsp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":7193,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[60,51],"tags":[37,46],"class_list":["post-7191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-avengers-endgame","category-news","tag-news","tag-newspage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7191"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7204,"href":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7191\/revisions\/7204"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}