James Cameron's Avatar: The Way of Water is on track to make the second-highest-grossing domestic release of the year after just a few weeks in theaters.
After just a few weeks in theaters at the end of the year, Avatar: The Way of Water is on track to become the second-highest-grossing domestic release of 2022.
Per Variety, it remains the topper of the New Year's weekend box office, earning $24.4 million on 6 Dec Friday and making its current domestic gross $382.6 million. Overall, The Way of Water's, expected to mark $66.8 million on its source weekend and $87.8 million overall from its fourth-day weekend. Overall, the sci-fi epic is projected to earn more than $445 million over the weekend, putting it past the box office numbers of Marvel Studios' Black Panther: Wakanda Forever and making it the second-highest-grossing film of 2022 at the domestic box office. Meanwhile, Top Gun: Maverick sits as the year's highest-grossing domestic release with $718.7 million dollars.
The sequel was predicted to earn a total of $1 billion USD worldwide by New Year's Day, a checkpoint it highly passed after only two weeks in theaters. With an enormous box office total of $1.1 billion. this puts Cameron's sequel close to Maverick's global chart range of $1.5 billion. Earnings are officially reported as an international total of $762.8 million. The Way of Water's poised to overtake the earnings of Maverick's movie, which ended its international run with $770 million.
The Way of Water's Box Office, Days of Grossing
Before the film's theatrical release, The Way of Water was projected to earn $525 million worldwide, with an estimated $175 million US/Canada and $350 million internationally. On its first hours in theaters, The Way of Water grossed $53 million, surpassing the $27 million earned by 2009's Avatar Friday, and is Cameron's biggest opening to date.
Avatar The Way of Water remains the highest-grossing movie of all time in the century. Its sequel is told to be one of the most expensive and awaited Disney movies ever made with a budget between $350 million and $400 million. Cameron has indicated that The Way of Water would need to raise more than $2 billion worldwide to break even, anticipated expectations.
Avatar: The Way of Water is set a century after the events of the original Avatar film and sees Sam Worthington and Zoe Saldaña reprise their roles as Jake Sulley and Neytiri. Other returning cast members include Stephen Lang as Colonel Quaritch and Sigourney Weaver. Cameron has planned three more films in the Avatar saga, though the director has that Avatar 4 and 5 will build on the success of the first two sequels, including The Way of Water's nov.
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