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Avatar way of water box office12/10/2023 It’s a big money loser and the only blight in what has been an incredible run for Paramount - the studio scored with “The Lost City,” “Scream,” “Sonic the Hedgehog 2” and “Top Gun: Maverick.”Īmong prestige fare, A24’s “The Whale,” a drama about an obese college professor that’s received rave reviews for Brendan Fraser, earned $372,950 on New Year’s Eve. That would bring its domestic gross to a disastrous $11 million and change. The $80 million drama earned $2.7 million over the weekend and is expected to gross just $3.6 million over the four-day holiday. Paramount’s “Babylon,” a look at all the drugs and debauchery that made Hollywood’s silent era a real blur, rounded out the top five even as it struggled to entice audiences. That leaves the biopic about the troubled pop icon with a $16 million domestic gross, a discordant result for a film with a $45 million budget. In fourth place, Sony and Tri-Star’s “Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody” earned $4.2 million for the weekend and $5.4 million for the four-day holiday. Its domestic total stands at $438 million, while its global gross is $818.5 million. That would put the animated adventure’s domestic total at just over $66 million.ĭisney and Marvel’s “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” took third place, earning $4.8 million over the weekend and a projected $6.5 million over the four-day holiday. Coming in a distant second was Universal and DreamWorks Animation’s “ Puss in Boots: The Last Wish,” which earned $16.3 million over the weekend and is expected to make $21.7 million over the four-day holiday. “Avatar: The Way of Water” was basically the only game in town when it came to New Year’s Eve viewing. The “Avatar” sequel is now the fifteenth highest global release of all-time, just behind “Black Panther” and ahead of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2.” So it’s in some pretty rarefied commercial company. Its global gross stands at $1.38 billion. So far, the film has earned $421.6 million domestically and $956.9 million internationally. Sources put “Avatar: The Way of Water’s” break-even point at roughly $1.4 billion, a figure it is on the precipice of passing. The long-delayed movie arrived to positive reviews, with Variety’s chief film critic Owen Gleiberman writing “Cameron, a four-decade veteran of bravura action logistics, has lost none of his mojo.But all that innovation didn’t come cheap and Cameron has suggested that in order to turn a profit for Disney, the company that bought the rights to “Avatar” when it purchased much of 21st Century Fox in 2019, the movie will need to be one of the highest-grossing films in history. Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldaña, Stephen Lang and Sigourney Weaver returned for “The Way of Water,” which clocks in at three hours and 12 minutes and follows the Sully family underwater as they battle the elements on Pandora to stay alive and keep each other safe. Although three major movies - director Damien Chazelle’s glitzy showbiz epic “ Babylon,” Universal’s animated “ Puss in Boots: The Last Wish” and Sony’s Whitney Houston biopic “I Wanna Dance With Somebody” - will open on Friday, none of them will come close to dethroning “Avatar 2” for the top spot on domestic charts. It’s also expected to keep pulling in big numbers during the week leading up to Christmas, which falls on Sunday. Over the upcoming weekend, “Avatar: The Way of Water” is projected to decline 40% to 50% from its $134 million debut, which would put ticket sales around $67 million to $80 million. The original film, which was released in 2009, grossed a staggering $760 million in North America and $2.92 billion globally.īut the holiday season should be rewarding. Because of pandemic-related obstacles, especially at the international box office, “The Way of Water” won’t come close to reaching the heights of its predecessor, which is the highest-grossing movie in history.
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