User blog:Ceauntay/'Hoop' And 'Potter' Joins $1B Club

Striking to a new milestone, both Part 2 of Jane Hoop Elementary: The Final Rush and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows pass the $1 billion mark. However, Hoop became the fourth highest-grossing film of all-time, while Potter becames currently the ninth.

Impressive that both films has reach the billion dollar joins other films in that milestone including Titanic, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, Toy Story 3, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides and Alice in Wonderland. The only film that made $2 billion is Avatar.

Hoop has moved above Dead Man's Chest while Potter moves up The Dark Knight. Transformers: Dark of the Moon is closer and closer. By next weekend, it will be there.

This means that 2011 will have four films to reach $1 billion making it the first year ever to do so since last year when both Alice and Toy Story 3 reach the $1 billion mark, both from Disney. Eventually, Paramount will have two films to reach $1 billion in the same year, the second studio ever after Disney.