‘Avatar: The Method of Water’ Passes $2 Billion at Global Ticket Office

Avatar: The Method of Water has actually crossed another significant ticket office turning point.

Over the weekend, the James Cameron-directed film reached $2 billion earned at the international ticket office, simply one day after it went beyond Spider-Man: No Chance House as the sixth-highest earning movie in ticket office history and simply over one month after it struck theaters in December 2022, according toVariety

The impressive kept its No. 1 area at the domestic ticket office for the 6th successive weekend, including $20 million from 3,790 theaters, decreasing approximately 40 percent, Variety reports. So far, the movie has actually generated an amazing $2.02 billion around the world, the trade reports.

The film signs up with simply 5 others in history to cross the $2 billion ticket office limit, consisting of 68-year-old director Cameron’s 2009 initial that ended up being the highest-grossing film of perpetuity, 2019’s Avengers: Endgame, Cameron’s 1997 movie Titanic, 2015’s Star Wars: The Force Awakens and 2018’s Avengers: Infinity War, according to Range

On Jan. 5, The Method of Water passed $1.51 billion worldwide as it took Tom Cruise’s Leading Weapon: Radical‘s area as the No. 1 film launched in 2022, according to The Hollywood Reporter

Of all the films that strike theaters in 2022, the just other to make over $1 billion internationally was Jurassic World Rule Avatar: The Method of Water reached the billion-dollar mark in simply 2 week.

Cameron, 68, recently told GQ that the follow up was “really f– ing” costly to make. He joked that he informed the studio the movie was “the worst organization case in film history,” which it would “need to be the 3rd- or fourth-highest-grossing movie in history” to simply “recover cost.”.

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Avatar: The Method of Water stars Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldaña, Sigourney Weaver, Kate Winslet, Stephen Lang and more. It made Golden World and Critics Option Award elections for finest photo. (Oscar elections will be revealed later on in January.).

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In December 2021, Cameron informed Entertainment Weekly that, offered the state of moviegoing in the middle of the pandemic, he fretted whether the follow up would have the ability to match Avatar‘s success.

” The huge concern is: Are we going to make any damn cash? Big, costly movies have actually got to make a great deal of cash,” stated Cameron at the time. “We remain in a brand-new world post-COVID, post-streaming. Possibly those [box office] numbers will never ever be seen once again. Who understands? It’s all a huge roll of the dice.”.

Avatar: The Method of Water is now in theaters, while Avatar 3 is anticipated to launch in theaters on Dec. 30, 2024.