Through Tuesday,
Avatar 2’s domestic cume is $526 million, ahead of the 26 day cumes of
Avatar ($441 million) and
Top Gun: Maverick ($481 million). The worldwide cume is $1.749 billion, the seventh biggest of all time. In 2010,
Avatar did $42.8 million for the three-day and $54.4 million for the four-day over MLK weekend (which, as with
Avatar 2, was the film’s fifth weekend), which remains the best cume for a non-opener ever for the holiday.
The Way of Water could realistically end up as the holiday weekend’s second best gross ever for a non-opener, a claim currently held by
The Revenant with $37.5 million for the four-day (that was the film’s second weekend).
Titanic is in third with $36 million (in its fifth weekend). If
The Way of Water has another drop of 32% as it did last weekend when it grossed $45.8 million, that’s a three-day of $31.2 million, in the range of
The Revenant’s $31.8 million three-day. That’s enough to give
Avatar 2 the second best fifth-weekend ever, and even staying above $29.6 million for the three-day will give
James Cameron the top three fifth weekend grosses ever (to date,
Avatar is first with $42.8 million and
Titanic is second with $30 million, while
Top Gun: Maverick holds third).