In 2009, James Cameron broke his own 'Titanic' box office record with 'Avatar'—a boundary-pushing CGI feature that promptly made $2.9 billion at the box office.

POP CULTURE
From Steve Martin's 'Saturday Night Live' song to 'The Mummy' movies, King Tut has had an eventful afterlife.
The Western has been part of cinema since the very earliest days of Hollywood, and has produced some of the greatest films ever made. Here are 35 of them.
“This film takes place in a past time period,” the 'Blade' casting call reads, but it doesn’t specify which one.
Though Exposé's name is not nearly as recognizable as TLC, Destiny's Child, or The Bangles, the 1980s hitmakers are the only girl group since The Supremes to score seven consecutive Top 10 hits on the Billboard Hot 100.
Gina Prince-Bythewood's 'The Woman King' takes its cues from the very real Agojie warriors of West Africa.
Stephen King once opened the doors to his Bangor, Maine, home to Halloween trick-or-treaters in the 1980s. More than 1000 people showed up.
The upcoming “Weird Al” Yankovic biopic starring Daniel Radcliffe promises to fuse fact and fiction. The photos in this book tell a truer tale.
These fascinating Afrofuturism novels from authors like Octavia Butler and Colson Whitehead are a great way to discover more about this genre.
A map of Middle-earth is featured in ‘The Rings of Power,’ but it’s tough to get the full picture from a few myopic shots.
The arrival of blockbuster movies like 'Jaws' and 'Star Wars' and the rise of the home video era allowed '80s comedies like 'Airplane!' and 'The Naked Gun' to define the spoof genre like no films before them ever could.
The supernatural drama on 'Stranger Things' is practically endless, which has left plenty of room for wild speculation. Fortunately, fans have been only too happy to oblige—and share their theories online.
Sometimes, rewriting is better. Here are some of the most popular Stephen King movies that have different book endings.
How long has Kenan Thompson been on 'SNL'? Nineteen seasons—and counting.
Queen Elizabeth II amassed nearly 1000 film credits of her own, but dozens of actors have taken on the mighty task of portraying Her Majesty in movies and on television.
The Middle Ages may not have been crawling with ice zombies or dragons, but much of the HBO hit 'House of the Dragon'—and its predecessor, 'Game of Thrones'—is taken from real history.
In the weeks following the death of Princess Diana, "Candle in the Wind '97" provided a form of musical catharsis. Then it simply burned out.
Released five years after his sudden death, Bruce Lee's 'Game of Death' used everything from camera tricks to cardboard cutouts to resurrect a legend.
Bands like Nirvana, Mudhoney, and Pearl Jam helped bring grunge to the mainstream in the ‘90s and defined the era.
Featuring outtakes from everything from ‘Young Frankenstein’ to ‘Scream,’ this blooper reel puts the ‘laughter’ in ‘slaughter.’
These movies may be bad, but—hey—at least they're memorable.
You don't see too many Tunnel of Love rides at amusement parks today, but they once served an important—and risqué—social function.