Avatar: The Way of Water continues to dominate the box office this holiday season.
James Cameron’s epic adventure has now reached $1.17 billion worldwide, becoming the third-highest-grossing film of the pandemic era, behind Spider-Man: No Way Home’s $1.9 billion and Top Gun: Maverick’s $1.5 billion.
On Wednesday, “Avatar: The Way of Water” grossed $20 million domestically, bringing its US revenue to $358 million. It added $47.9 million to the bet from the international markets. This brings its total foreign income to $810.6 million. It now ranks as the year’s highest-grossing international release.
But the Avatar sequel has a high price tag. Cameron suggested that, in order to break even, “Avatar: The Way of Water” would have to be one of the highest-grossing films in history. Sources close to the production claim it was somewhat hyperbolic and set a break-even figure near $1.4 billion – a milestone the sequel has a good chance of achieving.
Avatar: The Way of Water focuses on the Sully clan as they confront a group of invaders who threaten the harmony of Pandora, their mysterious home planet. Cameron developed a new technology that allowed him to film performance capture sequences underwater and the actors I learned to free dive So they can hold their breath during extended action scenes.
“Avatar: The Way of Water” brings back Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldaña, Stephen Lang and Sigourney Weaver, the stars of the first Avatar movie. The film also includes newcomer Kate Winslet, who starred in Cameron’s other water-based epic “Titanic” who defied the odds to become a box office sensation.
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