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After an unreal seven weeks at the top of the box office, Avatar: The Way of Water is finally expected to drop to number two. The top spot next week is expected to go to thriller Knock At The Cabin.
According to Deadline, per tracking sources at 3,600 theaters, M. Night Shyamalan’s Knock At the Cabin is expected to make $15-17 million over the weekend. Keep in mind that these numbers are from before the release of any reviews of the movie, which could affect the actual outcome. Reviews of the thriller have since released, and in keeping with Shyamalan’s recent releases, they range from high praise to broad pan.
Knock At The Cabin stars Johnathon Groff and Ben Aldridge as a couple vacationing with their adopted daughter. Strangers, played by Dave Bautista, Rupert Grint, Nikki Amuka-Bird, and Abby Quinn, arrive at their cabin, taking the family hostage. The strangers claims the family must sacrifice one of their three members, or else bring on the end of the world.
Director James Cameron’s sci-fi epic has now earned $2.075 billion at the global box office. Star Wars: The Force Awakens, another sci-fi sequel released long after previous installments, finished its theatrical run with $2.064 billion after hitting theaters in December 2015.
With this latest box office milestone, Cameron now has three of the top four highest-grossing movies in history — the original Avatar is still the champion [with $2.92 billion], while Titanic sits in third place [with $2.2 billion].
[The second-highest grossing film of all time is Avengers: Endgame with $2.79 billion.] Avatar: The Way of Water has quickly moved up in the record books, surpassing Spider-Man: No Way Home ($1.92 billion) on Jan. 18 and Avengers: Infinity War ($2.05 billion) shortly after on Jan. 26….
A third “Avatar” entry has already been set for release in December 2024 and there are plans for a fourth and fifth to continue the intergenerational saga
Some context from The A.V. Club:
The highlight of that big pile of planetary currency being a massive $229 million turnout in China, where it’s one of the first Disney movies to play in the country’s lucrative markets in some time.
As it happens, James Cameron told GQ back in November, ahead of his sequel’s release, that his “fucking expensive” movie would have to post these kinds of numbers to be anything other than a loss for the studio. “You have to be the third or fourth highest-grossing film in history,” he noted at the time. “That’s your threshold. That’s your break even.”
Wikipedia points out that when box office figures are adjusted for inflation, the highest-grossing film of all time is still the 1939 Civil War drama Gone with the Wind. And the next top-grossing films of all-time?
The original Avatar Titanic The original Star Wars (1977) Avengers: Endgame The Sound of Music (1965) E.T. the Extra Terrestrial (1982) The Ten Commandments (1956) Doctor Zhivago (1965) Star Wars: the Force Awakens
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Five weeks into its run at the box office, Avatar: The Way of Water continues to perform better than even director James Cameron thought it might. Deadline is reporting that the sequel has overtaken Spider-Man: No Way Home to become the No. 6 biggest film ever made worldwide, and is expected to hit $2 billion by this coming weekend.
Earlier this week, it was reported that the Avatar sequel pulled in $40.6 million in ticket sales over the four-day Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend. Combined with its run in international territories, Avatar 2 has made over $1.93 billion so far. Earlier this month, Avatar: The Way of Water became among the most successful films in the history of the world–in under two weeks.
The Weeknd has unwrapped the whimsical video for ‘Nothing Is Lost (You Give Me Strength).’
Lifted as the focus single from the soundtrack for ‘Avatar: The Way of Water,’ the track arrives amidst the movie’s stronghold of dominance at the global box office. Indeed, as of writing, the blockbuster is nearing a $2 Billion gross –
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If you’re wondering what the future holds for the planet of Pandora after Avatar: The Way of Water, you likely won’t have to wait another 13 years for the sequel. Now that the Avatar sequel is about to cross the $2 billion mark, director James Cameron seems happy to share what’s coming in what is tentatively titled …