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Dec 14, 2022 · Thirteen years after the release of the original pop-culture and box-office phenomenon, Avatar: The Way of Water is now tracking to have the biggest worldwide opening weekend of 2022 and the best since Spider-Man: No Way Home's pandemic-era record $583 million opening in 2020.
- Brett Finger
- News Senior Writer
- Avatar: The Way of Water: Domestic
- Avatar: The Way of Water: Global
- Way of Watervs. Maverick
- Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
- The Whale
- Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
- Weekend Comparisons
- YTD Comparisons
- Top Distributors
20th Century Studios’ long-awaited science fiction sequel Avatar: The Way of Waterhad blue characters but saw green this weekend, with a $134.0M domestic and $434.5 million debut. That’s the #6 opening of the year. It’s also the #38 opening of all time. Compared to its predecessor, it’s also +74% above the opening of 2009’s original Avatar($77.0M)....
Wateralso debuted with a $300.5M overseas weekend in 52 markets, for a $434.5M global opening. That’s the #2 global opening weekend of the year, behind only Multiverse($452M). It’s also the #11 biggest global opening weekend ever. (Although that comparison is a bit inexact, since some films have staggered release dates in different markets, while W...
Top Gun: Maverickis currently the highest-grossing release of 2022, both domestically ($718.7M) and globally ($1.48B). Now that Black Panther: Wakanda Foreverseems almost certain not to top either of those two marks, Wateris the only remaining 2022 release with a chance to overtake Maverick. Will it? Domestically, it’s doable, though perhaps unlike...
After leading for five consecutive frames, the first film to do so since Spider-Man: No Way Homein January, Disney and Marvel Studios’ superhero sequel Black Panther: Wakanda Foreverfell to second place with a -52% decline to $5.4M. Wakandahas now earned the: 1. #13 opening weekend of all time ($181.3M) 2. #27 second weekend of all time ($66.4M) 3....
Last weekend, A24’s awards contender drama The Whaleopened with the top per-theater average of 2022 so far, with $332,152 in a limited release of six theaters, for a $55,359 average. That beat the prior 2022 record: March’s Everything Everywhere All at Once, with a $50,131 average. This weekend, Whaleremains in six theaters and earns an estimated $...
Ahead of its domestic debut on Wednesday, Universal’s animated sequel Puss in Boots: The Last Wishadded $3.8M overseas this weekend, for a $13.5M overseas total. Top territories to date include France ($4.9M) and Italy ($2.5M).
Total box office this weekend came in around $152.0M, which is: 1. 4.0x above last weekend’s total ($37.6M), when Black Panther: Wakanda Forever led for a fifth consecutive frame with $11.2M. 2. 3.4x above the equivalent weekend in 2021 ($43.9M), when West Side Story led with $10.5M. 3. +29% above the equivalent weekend in the last pre-pandemic yea...
Year-to-date box office stands around $7.01B. That’s: 1. +82.6% above this same point in the pandemic recovery year of 2021 ($3.84B), down from +86.8% after last weekend. 2. –33.3% behind this same point in 2019, the last pre-pandemic year ($10.52B), up from -33.9% after last weekend. The peak was around -29.5%, set in mid-July.
Universal ($1.46B)Disney ($1.33B)Paramount ($1.29B)Warner Bros. ($934.0M)Domestically, Avatar: The Way of Water tied with The Batman as the fifth-biggest opening of 2022. Cameron's movies, including Avatar, tend to start a bit slower and then continue to build up over ...
Dec 18, 2022 · The highly anticipated “Avatar: The Way of Water” took in $134 million at the US box office, giving director James Cameron his first $100 million opening weekend — despite falling short of ...
Dec 18, 2022 · Before Avatar: The Way of Water came out, Big Jim Cameron said the film would need to make $2 billion to be a success. After its opening weekend, the film is is a little less than a quarter of the ...
- Bethy Squires
- Contributor
Dec 19, 2022 · Avatar: The Way Of The Water grossed an estimated $134 million in its opening weekend, falling short of expectations, as it faces pressure to become profitable and live up to the first film’s ...
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Dec 18, 2022 · 'Avatar: The Way of Water':Director James Cameron talks replicating box-office magic Going into the weekend, many were expecting a domestic debut of at least $150 million. Some even said $175 or ...
