Avatar sets new DVD sales record

Avatar has beaten The Dark Knight to become the fastest-selling home entertainment release of all time in the US. It sold 6.7m copies in four days – 4m on DVD and 2.7m on Blu-ray – racking up $130m (£84.1m) for studio 20th Century Fox. It was released in the US and Canada on Earth Day, 22 April, to chime with Avatar's environmental theme. In the UK, Avatar made its debut on DVD today, with some stores – including flagship HMVs and Tescos – opening at midnight to serve queueing fans. Meanwhile, a UK fan has been named as the man behind a pioneering online Na'vi-English dictionary . Richard Littauer, a 21-year-old linguistics student from Edinburgh, told the Sun that he published the dictionary after being contacted by Paul Frommer, the US academic who created the language for Cameron's film. Littauer took two months to become fluent in Na'vi and apparently frequently strolls around town in blue makeup and a turquoise loin-cloth. The Sun reports that Littauer remains immune to the abuse he incurs, or the terror he wreaks, quoting a local, Natalie Smith, as saying: "My dogs were really frightened."