"Avatar" just won't go away. For the sixth week in a row, the James Cameron sci-fi epic took the weekend box office, and nothing was clothing to unseating it from the throne.

With $36 million, the film hit a domestic total of $552.8 million, and raised its worldwide total to $1.841 billion. That's $2 million shy of first place behind Cameron's last movie, the 1997 shipwreck epic "Titanic," at $1.843 billion.

The studio said "Avatar" has surpassed "Titanic" in international sales -- $1.29 billion to $1.24 billion mark -- and is closing in on its domestic total.

"We're witnessing box office history," Paul Dergarabedian, box office analyst for Hollywood.com, told the Associated Press. "We're watching all of these big records fall, and there doesn't seem to be an end in sight. 'Avatar' is dominating at a time where it has no big summer blockbusters to compete with it. It's perfectly poised to keep breaking all these records."

The apocalyptic thriller "Legion" debuted behind "Avatar" at #2 this weekend, with $18.2 million, while Fox's family fantasy comedy "Tooth Fairy," starring The Rock, opened at #4 with $14.5 million.

In at #3 was "The Book of Eli" at $17 million in its second week. It earned another $17 million to take its domestic total to just over $62 million. The post-apocalyptic action flick stars Denzel Washington as a traveling prophet who battles a villainous gang leader while protecting the last known Bible.

"The Lovely Bones" came in at #5 with $8.8 million, and the last wide release within the top 10 was "Extraordinary Measures", starring Harrison Ford and Brendan Fraser, at #7 with $7 million.

That wraps things up this weekend. Next weekend, look out for the Mel Gibson drama/thriller "Edge of Darkness," and the Kristen Bell romantic comedy "When In Rome."

This weekend's top 10 is as follows:

1 - "Avatar," $36 million.
2 - "Legion," $18.2 million.
3 - "The Book of Eli," $17 million.
4 - "Tooth Fairy," $14.5 million.
5 - "The Lovely Bones," $8.8 million.
6 - "Sherlock Holmes," $7.1 million.
7 - "Extraordinary Measures," $7 million.
8 - "Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel," $6.5 million.
9 - "It's Complicated," $6.2 million.
10 - "The Spy Next Door," $4.8 million.