In its opening weekend, Avatar: The Last Airbender collected $134 million in the United States and $435 million worldwide. The film became the third worldwide premiere of the weekend during the COVID-19 pandemic – it is behind only the films “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” with $442 million and “Spider-Man: No Way Home” with $600 million. Domestically ” “Avatar: The Path of Water” along with “Batman” became the fifth highest-grossing opening of 2022.

Cameron’s films tend to start off a bit slower and then continue to build up over the following weeks. 2009’s Avatar opened with just $77 million domestically, before going on to earn $760 million in North America and $2.92 billion worldwide, becoming the highest-grossing film of all time. He held the top spot for seven consecutive weeks.

The sequel, which has so far earned $301 million internationally, will have a hard time reaching the box office of the original film. The film will not be shown in Russia, where the first film grossed $116 million. China is also a huge market and played an important role in the success of the original, but the sequel fell short of expectations, bringing in just $57.1 million in its opening weekend.

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The situation with the meeting of the second “Avatar” in China is aggravated by the outbreak of the COVID-19 epidemic, the strict quarantine measures taken by the authorities and the reluctance of the country’s residents themselves to visit crowded places. It is not clear whether the film will be able to increase the collection in the following release days, unless the situation changes somehow. The franchise is well received by the Chinese audience, the second film was no exception, but their behavior is dictated by the surrounding circumstances. The film has high social scores: 9.3 on Maoyan, 9.2 on Alibaba ticketing app Tao Piao Piao, and 8.2 on movie site Douban.

On Friday, major Chinese ticketing app Maoyan predicted that Avatar 2 would earn $360 million. Forecasters had good reason to be optimistic: Just before Friday, Water Path surpassed the pre-sale total achieved by Chinese blockbuster Battle on the Lake Chanjin.” which earned more than $100 million at launch and eventually raised $626 million. But by Sunday, Maoyan’s full forecast had been cut to $143 million, a sign of how unreliable conventional metrics have become amid the uncertainty surrounding COVID.

62% of people who bought tickets for Avatar: The Last Airbender went to see the film in premium formats – the film grossed $48.8 million in IMAX alone, which was enough to make the opening weekend the second biggest IMAX weekend of all time.

“Avatar: The Path of Water” is waiting for an interesting dynamic in the coming weeks: it will become clear how much the fees will exceed the production budget of $350 million and the advertising budget. According to Cameron, to make enough money, the film would have to be the third or fourth highest-grossing film of all time.

“Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” took second place after spending five weeks at the top of the box office. They have so far reached $418 million in North America and $786.5 million worldwide. “Cruel Night” took third place with $5 million, “Wonderland” – $2.2 million, and “The Menu” – rounded out the top five with $1.7 million.

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Source: IGN