James Cameron has done it again.

"Avatar" is now the highest grossing domestic film of all-time, as it has earned $601.1 million in 47 days to surpass Cameron's "Titanic" and take the top spot. By comparison, "Titanic" (which obviously didn't benefit from hiked-up 3-D admission prices), earned $600.8 million in 252 days. Box Office Mojo has a more detailed breakdown here.        

Like him or hate him, think he's an arrogant tyrant or darn good filmmaker (or both), you have to respect what Cameron has accomplished. Sure, his dialogue is terrible, but his ability as a director to build and maintain suspense is truly admirable. And visually, it's not an exaggeration to say "Titanic" was impressive and "Avatar" is truly unlike anything we've seen before.

The above photo shows Cameron on the "Avatar" set with one of his inventions for the film, a virtual camera. This camera gave him the unprecedented ability to see an actor's CG character - and the CG environments - in the camera. For example, Sam Worthington (Jake) and Zoe Saldana (Neytiri) may have been wearing body suits while standing against a green screen, but Cameron was able to see Pandora and ten-foot tall Na'vi when looking through the camera. Very cool stuff indeed.