Avatar: Fire and Ash Hits $760M at the Global Box Office After 2 Weekends

Avatar: Fire and Ash is present up to $760.4 cardinal astatine the planetary container bureau arsenic the Disney sci-fi sequel heads towards 1 cardinal dollars from theaters.

$217.7 cardinal has present been made domestically, but Avatar: Fire and Ash is doing peculiarly good internationally, wherever it has an awesome $542.7 cardinal haul aft an awesome 25% wide drop. Avatar 1 and 2 were the world’s fig 1 movie for a fig of weeks pursuing launch, and each ended up earning implicit $2 billion. The anticipation for Disney is that Avatar 3 shows akin staying powerfulness successful theaters, and it's drip-feeding Avengers: Doomsday teaser trailers alongside the movie to promote repetition viewings from ace fans. James Cameron’s 3 Avatar films person present earned implicit $6 cardinal to day globally, including Fire and Ash.

The lingering question for Cameron is whether Avatar 3 does capable concern to person Disney to greenlight Avatar 4 and 5. Avatar: Fire and Ash launched to a immense $345 cardinal astatine the planetary container office, which was capable to unafraid the 2nd largest opening play of 2025 truthful far. But it was down importantly connected its predecessor Avatar: The Way of Water’s opening play haul.

The peculiar effects-heavy Avatar films outgo a immense magnitude of wealth to produce, but they person historically made billions of dollars astatine the container office. Avatar remains the highest-grossing movie of each clip (not adjusted for inflation), and has earned a staggering $2.9 cardinal crossed respective theatrical runs. Avatar: The Way of Water earned $2.3 billion, meanwhile, cementing it arsenic the third-highest grossing movie of each clip — conscionable up of Cameron's ain Titanic.

Avatar 4 presently has a December 21, 2029 merchandise date, with Avatar 5 owed retired December 19, 2031. Cameron, present 71, would beryllium adjacent to 80 years aged by the clip it each wraps up.

But Cameron has sounded words of caution recently. Speaking connected The Town with Matthew Belloni podcast, Cameron admitted helium was feeling tense astir Avatar: Fire and Ash’s container bureau performance, and was mindful of the “forces” moving against theatrical releases successful 2025. There’s the imaginable for “sequelitis,” Cameron noted. "People thin to disregard sequels unless it’s the 3rd Lord of the Rings movie and you privation to spot what happens to everybody, which successful my caput this is — this is the culmination of a communicative arc, but that whitethorn not beryllium however the nationalist sees it.” And there’s the “one-two punch” of streaming and Covid, which means less radical are going to the movies — 75% of the fig successful 2019, Cameron suggested.

When pressed connected however overmuch Avatar: Fire and Ash outgo to make, Cameron wouldn’t beryllium drawn into divulging a figure, lone suggesting it was a batch of money, and truthful the movie volition person to marque a batch of wealth to crook a profit.

“It is 1 metric f**k ton of money, which means we person to marque 2 metric f**k tons of wealth to marque a profit,” helium said. “I person nary uncertainty successful my caput that this movie volition marque money. The question is, does it marque capable wealth to warrant doing it again?”

And connected that point, Cameron admitted helium was “absolutely” acceptable to locomotion distant from Avatar if Fire and Ash flops.

“I’ve been successful Avatar onshore for 20 years,” helium said. “Actually 30 years due to the fact that I wrote it successful ‘95, but I wasn’t moving continuously connected it for those archetypal 10 years. Yeah, absolutely, sure. If this is wherever it ends, cool.”

But what astir unfastened communicative threads?

“There’s 1 unfastened thread. I’ll constitute a book!” Cameron responded.

Avatar: Fire and Ash is nearing $1 cardinal astatine the planetary container office. Photo by Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images.

Meanwhile, Jack Black and Paul Rudd’s drama Anaconda opened to $43.7 cardinal globally. Josh Safdie’s Marty Supreme, starring Timothée Chalamet, has a planetary tally of $30 cardinal aft a constricted release.

After 5 weekends, Disney’s Zootopia 2 is present connected $1.42 cardinal worldwide, with implicit $1 cardinal of that coming internationally. Zootopia 2 is the highest-grossing Hollywood merchandise of the year. Could Avatar: Fire and Ash yet bushed it? Zootopia 2 and Lilo & Stitch are the lone 2 Hollywood movies of 2025 to transverse $1 cardinal truthful far.

And finally, Wicked: For Good opened successful China this play and has present crossed $500 cardinal globally. Five Nights astatine Freddy’s 2 (which this week became disposable to bargain from VOD platforms) has present crossed $100 cardinal internationally, with a planetary haul to day of $221 million.

Photo by Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images.

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