Just a few days after its huge Christmas weekend, ‘Avatar: The Way of Water’ became the latest James Cameron movie to score over $1 billion at the box office and it isn’t slowing down yet. This film is a stunning sequel that centers around the film’s original characters Jake Sully and Neytiri, played by both Sam Worthington and Zoe Zaldana—and how their life revolves around the journey as parents.
This James Cameron epic which was released on Dec. 16 in the United States, made $434 million globally in its opening weekend, with $134 million of that coming from the domestic box office. Now, after a sizeable New Year’s weekend haul of $86.3 million, The Way of Water has reached $444.4 million at the domestic box office with a total of $1.4 billion around the world so far.
The sequel already stands as the number one international release of 2022 and is fast approaching the $1.1bn achieved outside North America by Hollywood’s number top international release of the pandemic era, Spider-Man: No Way Home.
The film’s individual market totals include $162m from China, $93.7m from France, $76.1 million from Korea, $70.5 million from Germany and $57.7 million from the UK.
‘The Way of Water’ now stands as the eleventh biggest international release of all-time and the thirteenth biggest global release, having just passed the $1.4bn tally of Avengers: Age of Ultron. It ranks as the second biggest global release of 2022, fast approaching the $1.49bn of Top Gun: Maverick.
For the record, ‘The Way of Water’ is the second biggest release of 2022, having just passed the $440m of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.
