The hype train is rolling, word of mouth is working and cinema operators around the world breathe a sigh of relief after months and years of restrictions caused by the pandemic. Avatar-The Way of Water is proving to be the hoped-for savior for the industry. In the course of 2022 (certainly necessary) Corona measures to significant restrictions on cinema operations. Fortunately, this was no longer the case last autumn and winter, and so both the makers of the film and the operators of cinemas could look forward to full cinema halls just in time for the theatrical release of Avatar 2.
Avatar 2 is currently doing better than Disney expected
On the third weekend, too, the successor to the most successful film of all time did extremely well at the box office. In some cases, the sales figures are even higher than from Disney expected. In the home market USA avatar 2 turn over an impressive 24 million US dollars on New Year’s Day. Only Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens (34.3 million) and Avatar: Departure for Pandora (25.2 million) managed more.
You can do it yourself Marvel’s Spider-Man: No Way Home (23.1 million) can’t keep up. The third part of the spider trilogy with Tom Holland finally played $1.91 billion and failed narrowly at the $2 billion mark, which according to James Cameron is necessary to make Avatar – The Way of Water profitable. Therefore, analysts are meticulous about this comparison.
Avatar 2 tops Star Wars masterpieces in all-time leaderboards
An 18-day comparison with Rogue One: A Star Wars Story worth it too. The masterpiece of the star saga, which recently got an acclaimed prequel series on Disney Plus with Andor, also launched during a holiday season in which Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve each fell on a Saturday. After 18 days Rogue One was able to bring in 440.9 million US dollars. Avatar 2 is already at 444.4 million.
On the way to the top of the world’s highest-grossing films of all time Avatar-The Way of Water one successful feature film after the other. Meanwhile, Star Wars: The Last Jedi also had to vacate its place. With a box office result of worldwide $1.33 billion is located episode 8 now ranked 17th among the most successful films of all time. Avatar -The Way of Water is at number 14 and will enter the top 10 very soon.
Source: deadline
