Avatar: The Way of Water seems had a great New Year’s weekend. James Cameron’s latest film continues to dominate at the box office this New Year’s weekend. The movie reportedly grossed $186.7 million from 52 international markets over the weekend. Its weekend performance brought the total up to est. $1.379 billion worldwide.
Meanwhile, the 2009 film Avatar still ranks as the top-grossing movie of all time globally with $2.92 billion in ticket sales. Moreover, Avatar 2 box office collection will cross $1.4 billion worldwide sometime on Monday. Additionally, the highly-anticipated Avatar sequel officially passed Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 for 15th place on the all-time list. The movie made a huge jump in China over the weekend with a 42% jump from the previous weekend.
The top three foreign markets for the movie are China with $152.8 million, $95.1 million in France and $74.9 million in South Korea. Though a long-awaited sequel to the highest-grossing film of all time is currently doing good, it fell short of initial box-office expectations during its debut. The film collected just $134 million domestically, short of the $175 million that industry analysts had predicted, and just under the $135 million to $150 million range that Disney had forecast.
However, the Avatar box office collection was just the opposite of its sequel. Released in December 2009, Avatar had broken multiple box office records in various markets. The film became the highest-grossing movie of all time and the fastest movie to gross $1 billion through $2.5 billion worldwide. Avatar is also the highest-grossing movie in history so far.
James Cameron’s latest movie Avatar: The Way of Water features, Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldaña, Stephen Lang, Joel David Moore, CCH Pounder, Giovanni Ribisi, Dileep Rao, and Matt Gerald reprising their roles from the original film, with Sigourney Weaver returning in a different role. New cast members include Kate Winslet, Cliff Curtis, Edie Falco, Jemaine Clement, and Brendan Cowell.
Avatar: The Way Of Water follows Jake Sully and Ney’tiri as they have formed a family and are doing everything to stay together. However, they must leave their home and explore the regions of Pandora. When an ancient threat resurfaces, Jake must fight a difficult war against the humans.
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