Disney Analyst
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At this rate, I genuinely think it could hit 2 billion sooner then later.
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Avatar (the movie) and its Sequels
- Thread starter MisterPenguin
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At this rate, I genuinely think it could hit 2 billion sooner then later.
Based on the best industry guess of how much this one movie's budget is... A:tWoW just broke even.
CaptainAmerica
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China legs.
Disney Analyst
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‘Avatar: The Way Of Water’ Scores Monday January Record With $21M+, 4-Day Rises To $88M, Looks To Best Blumhouse’s ‘M3GAN’ Opening – Tuesday AM Update
'Avatar: The Way Of Water' To Cross $440M At New Year's Weekend Box Office
deadline.com
TP2000
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Exactly. From December 22nd to the 26th, basically the entire upper third of the country from Portland, Oregon to Portland, Maine was dealing with horrible snow and ice and record low temps. Blizzards, ice storms, sheltering overnight inside Target, etc. That awful continent-wide weather impacted the box office for all movies, whether they were good or bad.
Yup. Here out West at least, many schools still have a week off this upcoming week. They don't return to class until Monday, January 9th. Don't even get me started on that!
Phroobar
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Of course, the dominant force at the box office is Avatar: The Way of Water which is up 0.2% from last weekend for a third weekend of $63.4 million. That gives The Way of Water the fourth best third weekend of all time, and the $422 million cume (and with Monday estimates that’s $441 million) means it has already grossed over three times its opening weekend and is ahead of Top Gun: Maverick at the same point in its release ($395 million). Internationally the film grew 4% over last weekend, bumping the global cume to $1.397 billion million. The last time we saw legs like this on a massive winter blockbuster was, appropriately enough, 13 years ago with the release of the first Avatar.
Whether or not the spectacular holds continue, the film has already made a killing, and with the Monday estimates it has passed Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’s $440 million domestic cume to become the second highest domestic grosser of 2022. More impressively, The Way of Water is also just days off from becoming 2022’s highest grossing film worldwide, surpassing Top Gun: Maverick’s $1.49 billion cume. The China release helps here, being the film’s largest international market with $153 million so far, while Maverick never got a release in the Middle Kingdom. Even without China, though, Avatar 2 would still be on track to be the year’s topper. It has already broken pandemic-era records in many markets (notably France, its second biggest international market with $95.1 million so far) after less than three weeks of its release, with considerable room for further growth as it shows no sign of slowing down.
Whether or not the spectacular holds continue, the film has already made a killing, and with the Monday estimates it has passed Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’s $440 million domestic cume to become the second highest domestic grosser of 2022. More impressively, The Way of Water is also just days off from becoming 2022’s highest grossing film worldwide, surpassing Top Gun: Maverick’s $1.49 billion cume. The China release helps here, being the film’s largest international market with $153 million so far, while Maverick never got a release in the Middle Kingdom. Even without China, though, Avatar 2 would still be on track to be the year’s topper. It has already broken pandemic-era records in many markets (notably France, its second biggest international market with $95.1 million so far) after less than three weeks of its release, with considerable room for further growth as it shows no sign of slowing down.
Disney Analyst
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Welp. The Rogue One comp is done and dusted. Now what?
‘Avatar: The Way Of Water’ Scores Monday January Record With $21M+, 4-Day Rises To $88M, Looks To Best Blumhouse’s ‘M3GAN’ Opening – Tuesday AM Update
'Avatar: The Way Of Water' To Cross $440M At New Year's Weekend Box Office
deadline.com
CaptainAmerica
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Somewhere between No Way Home and Maverick.
doctornick
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I’m still confused about the people who were saying it was a flop after the first weekend.
CaptainAmerica
Premium Member
The MCU has poisoned everyone's brains into thinking that 3.0x legs is as good as it gets.
Wendy Pleakley
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Welp. The Rogue One comp is done and dusted. Now what?
‘Avatar: The Way Of Water’ Scores Monday January Record With $21M+, 4-Day Rises To $88M, Looks To Best Blumhouse’s ‘M3GAN’ Opening – Tuesday AM Update
'Avatar: The Way Of Water' To Cross $440M At New Year's Weekend Box Officedeadline.com
Compare it to Avatar or Titanic, really, because as has been said many times, James Cameron movies are in a world of their own.
Wendy Pleakley
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The family stuff to me is still very basic in terms of original storytelling. Jake has kids, and he loves them. They want to do adult things but he's protective. They do things anyway and put themselves in danger as a result.
Pretty standard stuff. Not bad, just not anything special.
Did Quaritch have much conflict due to his situation? I didn't see it, but I did see a late showing and was primarily focused on the spectacle.
The Kiri/Eywa stuff could be interesting if developed.
CaptainAmerica
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You must be watching different Hollywood movies than me. A father and husband who isn't a buffoon or a monster is damn near groundbreaking, particularly in a film aimed at the parents, not the kids.
When Jake gets a bit too aggressive disciplining the kids and Neytiri says "this isn't a squad, it's a family," that was such a wonderful example how good parents lift one another up and compensate for each other's weaknesses.
There was a reason the Bartons felt like such a breath of fresh air in Age of Ultron and this was basically a whole movie set on Hawkeye's farm.
Disney Analyst
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‘Avatar: The Way Of Water’ Scores Monday January Record With $21M+, 4-Day Rises To $88M, Looks To Best Blumhouse’s ‘M3GAN’ Opening – Tuesday AM Update
'Avatar: The Way Of Water' To Cross $440M At New Year's Weekend Box Office
deadline.com
CaptainAmerica
Premium Member
Eywa provides.‘Avatar: The Way Of Water’ Scores Monday January Record With $21M+, 4-Day Rises To $88M, Looks To Best Blumhouse’s ‘M3GAN’ Opening – Tuesday AM Update
'Avatar: The Way Of Water' To Cross $440M At New Year's Weekend Box Officedeadline.com
So, I guess Avatar 4 & 5 are being greenlit as we speak...
Disney Irish
Premium Member
What we know so far:
3. Avatar: The Seed Bearer – December 20, 2024
4. Avatar: The Tulkun Rider – December 18, 2026
5. Avatar: The Quest of Eywa – December 22, 2028
Cameron has been hinting at a possible break for 4 and 5 though. So those dates may change by a year or two.
Ghost93
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Since 3 is almost completely filmed, I think it will make it's Dec. 2024 release date.
However, I could easily see Avatar 4 being pushed back a year. If James Cameron is spending so much time in 2023 and 2024 completing the visual effects for Avatar 3, he won't have time to focus on shooting Avatar 4.
Btw, I am 99% sure that they will change the title of the third movie to something else. Calling a movie "the seed bearer" will just open itself up to a lot of jokes from the internet.