Avatar: Fire and Ash Now Up to $1.231 Billion Worldwide After 4 Weekends in Theaters

Avatar: Fire and Ash has present grossed $1.231 cardinal globally aft 4 weekends successful theaters, with Zootopia 2 up to $1.655 cardinal worldwide aft six weekends.

James Cameron’s sci-fi sequel added $21.3 cardinal domestically and $65.6 cardinal internationally this weekend. In total, Avatar 3 has made $342.6 cardinal domestically, leaving the bulk of its container bureau — $888 cardinal — coming internationally. That’s par for the people for the Avatar movies, which person tended to amusement staying powerfulness astatine theaters and execute peculiarly good successful China. Avatar: Fire and Ash has made $149 cardinal to day successful China, and is down lone Zootopia 2 successful presumption of films released successful 2025. Speaking of Zootopia 2, it’s made an unthinkable $1.276 cardinal internationally, with $611 cardinal coming from China. It is Walt Disney Animation’s highest-grossing movie of each time.

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. 2009's Avatar 1 remains the highest-grossing movie of each clip (not adjusted for inflation), and has earned a staggering $2.9 cardinal crossed respective theatrical runs. 2022's Avatar: The Way of Water has earned $2.3 billion, meanwhile, cementing its spot arsenic the third-highest grossing movie of each clip — conscionable up of Cameron's ain Titanic.

We’ve spoken for immoderate clip present astir Avatar: Fire and Ash’s container bureau show and however good it’s doing comparative to Avatar 1 and 2. Avatar: Fire and Ash is so trailing some its predecessors astatine this constituent successful its tally — by immoderate distance, too. After play four, Avatar: The Way of Water had made $1.713 billion, and Avatar had made $1.335 billion. It looks progressively improbable that Fire and Ash volition extremity up matching Avatar 1 oregon 2 by the extremity of its theatrical run. But the bigger question is whether it volition extremity up doing good capable to person Disney to greenlight Avatar 4 and 5. Disney has fixed some sequels merchandise dates already: 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.

In the tally up to Fire and Ash’s release, Cameron admitted helium was feeling tense astir the film’s container bureau show and expressed interest astir the “forces” moving against theatrical releases successful 2025. Speaking connected The Town with Matthew Belloni podcast, Cameron said determination was imaginable for “sequelitis.” He added: "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.

Disney has utilized Avengers: Doomsday teaser trailers to promote repetition viewings of Avatar: Fire and Ash successful theaters. Four teasers person been released truthful far, with each going online aft a week of theatrical exclusivity up of Fire and Ash.

Meanwhile, The Housemaid starring Sydney Sweeney and Amanda Seyfried is nearing the $200 cardinal people globally, with affirmative connection of rima fueling beardown holds week connected week. A sequel is already confirmed. Anaconda starring Jack Black and Paul Rudd is present up to $110.1 cardinal astatine the planetary container office. And Marty Supreme starring Timothée Chalamet is connected $84.1 cardinal globally.

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