Titanic (1997 film) the United States; the official Hollywood premiere occurred on December 14, 1997, where "the big movie stars who attended the opening were enthusiastically gushing about the film to the world media". Including revenue from the 2012 and 2017 reissues, "Titanic" earned $659.4 million in North America and $1.528 billion in other countries, for a worldwide total of $2.187 billion. It became the highest-grossing film of all time worldwide in 1998, and remained so for twelve years, until "Avatar" (2009), also written and directed by Cameron, surpassed it in 2010. On March 1, 1998, it became the first film to earn
2000s (decade) "Spider-Man 3", "", "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets", "", "Finding Nemo", "", "", "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban" and "Shrek the Third". The top 15 highest-grossing film series of the decade are (in order from highest to lowest grossing) "Harry Potter" film series, "The Lord of the Rings" film trilogy, "Pirates of the Caribbean" film series, "Spider-Man" film series, "Shrek" film series, "Ice Age" film series, "Transformers" film series, "X-Men" film series, "Batman" film series' "Batman Begins" and "The Dark Knight", "Star Wars" "" and "", "The Da Vinci Code" and "Angels & Demons", "The Matrix"