'Avatar' highest-grossing film of all time

James Cameron has beaten his own box office record after ‘Avatar’ was named the highest-grossing film of all time.

The director will have been celebrating this week after film company Twentieth Century Fox confirmed the 3-D movie had earned a staggering $1.859bn (€1.321bn) worldwide cinema sales – passing the $1.843bn (€1.31bn) record which he set in 1997 with his blockbuster ‘Titanic’.