This is already the fourth weekend with “Avatar: The Way of Water” in theaters. Only during the last 3 days, the movie raked in more than $45 million in the United States, besting its rivals in the US (“M3GAN” from second place which generated about $30 million).
The film’s total amount earned in theaters worldwide is already $1.7 billion ($516 million in the US and $1.19 billion in other countries).
Due to huge audience interest, the movie has already surpassed the results of “The Avengers” (2012), 2019’s “The Lion King,” “Top Gun: Marverick” and “Jurassic World,” ranking seventh in the list of highest-grossing films in history.
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James Cameron has set revenues of $2 billion as a target for his work, and it seems that achieving such a result is within the famous director’s reach.
The filmmaker is thus paving the way for the next films in the “Avatar” series, whose release has already been confirmed. As of December 2022, scenes for “Avatar 3” and part of the shots for “Avatar 4” had already been shot.
Ranking of the highest box office grossing films in the history of cinema
- Avatar – $2.92 billion
- Avengers: Endgame – $2.78 billion
- Titanic – $2.2 billion
- Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens – $2.06 billion
- Avengers: Infinity War – $2.04 billion
- Spider-Man: No Way Home – $1.916 billion
- Avatar: The Way of Water – $1.708 billion
- Jurassic World – $1.67 billion
- The Lion King (2019) – $1.66 billion
- The Avengers – $1.518 billion
