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JAMES CAMERON's sci-fi epic AVATAR has broken another record - the blockb= uster has become the highest grossing film in U.K. box office history.
The Oscar-nominated movie pulled in $6.9 million (=C2=A34.3 million) in= its eighth week of release (01-07Feb10), pushing

it over the $115 millio= n (=C2=A372 million) mark since it hit British cinemas in December (09).
The massive ticket sales mean Avatar has now overtaken Abba musical Mam= ma Mia! to become Britain's best-selling film ever.
The news comes just a week after the movie broke U.S. box office record= s, putting it ahead of Cameron's 1997 hit Titanic as the best-selling Nor= th American release of all time.
In the U.K. chart, Disney's The Princess And The Frog was a new entry t= aking $3.5 million (=C2=A32.2 million), followed by Astro Boy, Invictus a= nd Sherlock Holmes.