#AVATAR 2 BOX OFFICE MOVIE#
However, it is less shiny than Spider-Man: No Way Home’s “A+” CinemaScore from last year, the latter of which signaled near unanimous adoration from movie audiences-not that it prevented Spidey from dropping 67.5 percent in its second weekend and 33.7 percent in its third. According to the widely respected industry pollsters at CinemaScore, audiences gave Avatar: The Way of Water an “A” CinemaScore, which is glowing. The harbingers in this regard are hard to read, however. And then it would need to do so again during its third weekend. However, the first real test is not its opening weekend but its second weekend where box office observers will be waiting in baited breath to see if it can pull off something as miraculous as the first film and drop only a handful of percentage points-or incredulously increase its grosses as Titanic did. Now, thanks to Cameron, the bar for Avatar: The Way of Water’s success is high-if not the highest grossing film of all time then becoming only the sixth movie to ever gross more than $2 billion globally. On and on it went until it claimed the highest grossing record from Titanic. The weekend after that, it fell only 9.4 percent more, still earning $68.5 million. Nonetheless, in its second weekend of release (which included Christmas Day), Avatar dropped an absurdly modest 1.8 percent, grossing $75.6 million. In comparison, Avatar’s $77 million premiere looked modest. Similarly, 2009’s Avataropened a lot smaller than the then-highest grossing superhero movies, with the opening weekend records being owned by Spider-Man 3 ($151.1 million) and then The Dark Knight ($158.4 million). And on, and on it played, not falling from the No. The weekend after that, it dropped a meager six percent while still grossing a healthy $33.3 million.
19, 1997 (likely taking a hit due to opening opposite the second Pierce Brosnan James Bond picture, Tomorrow Never Dies) and then increased its box office in its second weekend by 23.8 percent, grossing $35.5 million in the days after Christmas. For weeks and months, with small diminishing drops weekend-on-weekend as audiences kept returning to the spectacle.įor further context, in its second weekend Titanic opened to $28.6 million on Dec. Rather both 1997’s Titanic and the original Avatar opened relatively mildly for a blockbuster of their eras (sounds familiar) and then… just sat at the top of the box office. In fact, it isn’t even among the five highest openings for a December release to date, with Avatar 2 trailing Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Star Wars: The Last Jedi, The Force Awakens, and Spider-Man: No Way Home, the latter of which opened the biggest at $260.1 million (and three of those other five also crossed $200 million in their first weekends).Īnd yet, Cameron’s previous successes at the capturing the all-time records never played the game of Marvel movies or modern Disney-owned Star Wars pictures which, generally speaking, aim for front-loaded openings that make the biggest splash. to between $150 and $175 million, and the sequel’s “soft” bow at $134 million suddenly looks a lot softer. That would at least appear to be the ballpark after the mercurial director told GQ that it needs to become the third or fourth highest grossing movie of all-time-and the fourth currently is Star Wars: The Force Awakens, which grossed $2.1 billion.Īdd on that rival studios and industry prognosticators placed Avatar: The Way of Water at opening in the U.S. It likely couldn’t have helped expectations that Cameron himself mused to the press that for Avatar 2 to be considered a success it needs to gross over $2 billion. Indeed, depending on where you look, the Avatar 2 box office debut is either a cautious sign that you still “should never bet against Cameron” (as goes conventional industry wisdom) or a harbinger that the king is dead and Avatar: The Way of Water is on a path toward financial disappointment. Of course nothing is judged in a vacuum when considering a James Cameron movie.
Even by the standards of heightened ticket price inflation, that appears to be a healthy increase in a vacuum. Those numbers are up 42.5 percent from the debut that the original Avatar enjoyed way back in 2009, which opened at $77 million. Avatar: The Way of Water, James Cameron’s sequel to the highest grossing movie of all time, just opened this past weekend to the tune of an estimated $134 million in North America.
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