
The sequel earned strong reviews from critics and has been nominated for four Oscars, including for best picture. A box-office bomb, or box-office disaster. “Avatar: The Way of Water” stars Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldaña, Kate Winslet, Stephen Lang and Sigourney Weaver. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever and Avatar: The Way of Water became the first two films to consecutively top the. The filmmaker not only directed the latest “Avatar” movie, he also co-wrote it with Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver.Įntering its seventh week of release, “The Way of Water” has a good shot at surpassing “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” on the all-time charts, as the next major box office smash, “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania,” doesn’t hit theaters until Feb. Box office analysis relies on a variety of data and historical trends and is generally a reliably accurate process, but its reliance on averages can give projections a bias towards more typical box office behavior, creating blind spots for anomalies like Avatar: The Way of Water. Cameron is hoping to turn “Avatar” into a five-film franchise, one that will tell a multi-generational family saga. Most films would have been wildly profitable from that point.

But it may not be that easy considering that Way of Water will have.
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and Canada to make the movie the top grosser ahead of the Christmas holiday weekend. box office over the weekend, earning 134 million in the U.S. Source say that “Avatar: The Way of Water,” which required the development of new technology to shoot motion-capture scenes under water, needed to earn $1.5 billion to break even. With Avatar already sitting on the top of that list with 2.9 billion in box-office collection, it might look like an easy job. Avatar: The Way of Water dominated the U.S. James Cameron’s blockbuster sequel Avatar: The Way of Water has generated 1.928 billion globally, overtaking Spider-Man: No Way Home (1.91 billion) as the sixth-highest grossing. Notably, Thursday’s achievement now gives Cameron three of the top five highest-grossing movies of all time, but his movies also carry steep price tags. It’s just the sixth movie ever made that has crossed $2 billion globally, doing so in its sixth week of release.

At the domestic box office, it’s made $603 million, standing as No.
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The Way Of Water’s steep budget, however, also includes the cost of filming a third Avatar movie and developing the scripts for a fourth and fifth film which could make the latter films in the series more profitable.Internationally, “The Way of Water” has grossed $1.5 billion, making it the fourth-biggest movie in history. The Avatar sequel is one of the most expensive films ever made, with a budget estimated at $350 million or more, and Cameron had said it would need to become one of the highest-grossing films of all time to simply break even. James Cameron’s Avatar: The Way of Water topped Friday with a sizable 53 million the director’s biggest. In an interview on Friday, Cameron said he expected the film to reach $2 billion in global box office earnings “in the next few days” and cross its “breakeven” point. Box Office: ‘Avatar 2’ Tops Friday With 53M for 130M-150M U.S. Key BackgroundĪfter a slower-than-expected opening last month, Avatar: The Way Of Water has managed to maintain strong momentum at the box office, with strong performances during its second, third and now fourth weeks. FRIDAY UPDATE: James Cameron’s Avatar: The Way of Water continues to splash out at the global box office, reaching 1.169B through Thursday, on its way to a 1.3B+ cume through Sunday. That is the total worldwide box office earnings for the original Avatar, which was released in 2009, making it the highest-grossing film of all time according to Box Office Mojo. box office this weekend, raking in $30.2 million.

After slightly leading The Way Of Water on Friday, Universal’s horror film M3GAN came in second at the U.S.
