Avatar: The Way of Water.Photo: 20th Century StudiosAvatar: The Way of Waterhas crossed another major box office milestone.Over the weekend, theJames Cameron-directed movie reached $2 billion grossed at the global box office, just one day after it surpassedSpider-Man: No Way Homeas the sixth-highest grossing film in box office history and just over one month after it hit theaters in December 2022, according toVariety.The epic retained its No. 1 spot at the domestic box office for the sixth consecutive weekend, adding $20 million from 3,790 theaters, declining roughly 40 percent,Varietyreports. Thus far, the film has amassed an astonishing $2.02 billion worldwide, the trade reports.The movie joins just five others in history to cross the $2 billion box office threshold, including 68-year-old director Cameron’s 2009 original that became the highest-grossing movie of all time, 2019’sAvengers: Endgame, Cameron’s 1997 filmTitanic, 2015’sStar Wars: The Force Awakensand 2018’sAvengers: Infinity War, according toVariety.On Jan. 5,The Way of Waterpassed $1.51 billion worldwide as it tookTom Cruise’sTop Gun: Maverick’s spot as the No. 1 movie released in 2022,according toThe Hollywood ReporterOf all the movies that hit theaters in 2022, the only other to make over $1 billion globally wasJurassic World Dominion.Avatar: The Way of Waterreached the billion-dollar mark in just 14 days.Poster forAvatar: The Way of Water(2022).20th Century StudiosCameron, 68,recently toldGQthat the sequel was “very f—ing” expensive to make. He joked that he told the studio the film was “the worst business case in movie history,” and that it would “have to be the third- or fourth-highest-grossing film in history” to just “break even.“Never miss a story — sign up forPEOPLE’s free daily newsletterto stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from juicy celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.Avatar: The Way of WaterstarsSam Worthington,Zoe Saldaña,Sigourney Weaver,Kate Winslet, Stephen Lang and more. It earnedGolden GlobeandCritics Choice Award nominationsfor best picture. (Oscar nominations will be announced later in January.)RELATED VIDEO: Sam Worthington and Zoe Saldaña on 16-Year Friendship and Memorable First Meeting: ‘She Couldn’t Understand My Accent’In December 2021, Cameron toldEntertainment Weeklythat, given the state of moviegoing amid the pandemic, he worried whether the sequel would be able to matchAvatar’s success.“The big issue is: Are we going to make any damn money? Big, expensive films have got to make a lot of money,” said Cameron at the time. “We’re in a new world post-COVID, post-streaming. Maybe those [box office] numbers will never be seen again. Who knows? It’s alla big roll of the dice.“Avatar: The Way of Wateris now in theaters, whileAvatar 3is expected to release in theaters on Dec. 30, 2024.
Avatar: The Way of Water.Photo: 20th Century Studios
Avatar: The Way of Waterhas crossed another major box office milestone.Over the weekend, theJames Cameron-directed movie reached $2 billion grossed at the global box office, just one day after it surpassedSpider-Man: No Way Homeas the sixth-highest grossing film in box office history and just over one month after it hit theaters in December 2022, according toVariety.The epic retained its No. 1 spot at the domestic box office for the sixth consecutive weekend, adding $20 million from 3,790 theaters, declining roughly 40 percent,Varietyreports. Thus far, the film has amassed an astonishing $2.02 billion worldwide, the trade reports.The movie joins just five others in history to cross the $2 billion box office threshold, including 68-year-old director Cameron’s 2009 original that became the highest-grossing movie of all time, 2019’sAvengers: Endgame, Cameron’s 1997 filmTitanic, 2015’sStar Wars: The Force Awakensand 2018’sAvengers: Infinity War, according toVariety.On Jan. 5,The Way of Waterpassed $1.51 billion worldwide as it tookTom Cruise’sTop Gun: Maverick’s spot as the No. 1 movie released in 2022,according toThe Hollywood ReporterOf all the movies that hit theaters in 2022, the only other to make over $1 billion globally wasJurassic World Dominion.Avatar: The Way of Waterreached the billion-dollar mark in just 14 days.Poster forAvatar: The Way of Water(2022).20th Century StudiosCameron, 68,recently toldGQthat the sequel was “very f—ing” expensive to make. He joked that he told the studio the film was “the worst business case in movie history,” and that it would “have to be the third- or fourth-highest-grossing film in history” to just “break even.“Never miss a story — sign up forPEOPLE’s free daily newsletterto stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from juicy celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.Avatar: The Way of WaterstarsSam Worthington,Zoe Saldaña,Sigourney Weaver,Kate Winslet, Stephen Lang and more. It earnedGolden GlobeandCritics Choice Award nominationsfor best picture. (Oscar nominations will be announced later in January.)RELATED VIDEO: Sam Worthington and Zoe Saldaña on 16-Year Friendship and Memorable First Meeting: ‘She Couldn’t Understand My Accent’In December 2021, Cameron toldEntertainment Weeklythat, given the state of moviegoing amid the pandemic, he worried whether the sequel would be able to matchAvatar’s success.“The big issue is: Are we going to make any damn money? Big, expensive films have got to make a lot of money,” said Cameron at the time. “We’re in a new world post-COVID, post-streaming. Maybe those [box office] numbers will never be seen again. Who knows? It’s alla big roll of the dice.“Avatar: The Way of Wateris now in theaters, whileAvatar 3is expected to release in theaters on Dec. 30, 2024.
Avatar: The Way of Waterhas crossed another major box office milestone.
Over the weekend, theJames Cameron-directed movie reached $2 billion grossed at the global box office, just one day after it surpassedSpider-Man: No Way Homeas the sixth-highest grossing film in box office history and just over one month after it hit theaters in December 2022, according toVariety.
The epic retained its No. 1 spot at the domestic box office for the sixth consecutive weekend, adding $20 million from 3,790 theaters, declining roughly 40 percent,Varietyreports. Thus far, the film has amassed an astonishing $2.02 billion worldwide, the trade reports.
The movie joins just five others in history to cross the $2 billion box office threshold, including 68-year-old director Cameron’s 2009 original that became the highest-grossing movie of all time, 2019’sAvengers: Endgame, Cameron’s 1997 filmTitanic, 2015’sStar Wars: The Force Awakensand 2018’sAvengers: Infinity War, according toVariety.
On Jan. 5,The Way of Waterpassed $1.51 billion worldwide as it tookTom Cruise’sTop Gun: Maverick’s spot as the No. 1 movie released in 2022,according toThe Hollywood Reporter
Of all the movies that hit theaters in 2022, the only other to make over $1 billion globally wasJurassic World Dominion.Avatar: The Way of Waterreached the billion-dollar mark in just 14 days.
Poster forAvatar: The Way of Water(2022).20th Century Studios
Cameron, 68,recently toldGQthat the sequel was “very f—ing” expensive to make. He joked that he told the studio the film was “the worst business case in movie history,” and that it would “have to be the third- or fourth-highest-grossing film in history” to just “break even.”
Never miss a story — sign up forPEOPLE’s free daily newsletterto stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from juicy celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.
Avatar: The Way of WaterstarsSam Worthington,Zoe Saldaña,Sigourney Weaver,Kate Winslet, Stephen Lang and more. It earnedGolden GlobeandCritics Choice Award nominationsfor best picture. (Oscar nominations will be announced later in January.)
RELATED VIDEO: Sam Worthington and Zoe Saldaña on 16-Year Friendship and Memorable First Meeting: ‘She Couldn’t Understand My Accent’
In December 2021, Cameron toldEntertainment Weeklythat, given the state of moviegoing amid the pandemic, he worried whether the sequel would be able to matchAvatar’s success.
“The big issue is: Are we going to make any damn money? Big, expensive films have got to make a lot of money,” said Cameron at the time. “We’re in a new world post-COVID, post-streaming. Maybe those [box office] numbers will never be seen again. Who knows? It’s alla big roll of the dice.”
Avatar: The Way of Wateris now in theaters, whileAvatar 3is expected to release in theaters on Dec. 30, 2024.
source: people.com
