Avatar: The Way of Water breaks more records at the worldwide box office - The Guardian

Avatar: The Way of Water is continuing its march done the precocious reaches of the all-time takings charts arsenic it becomes the sixth movie to interruption the $2bn people successful worldwide box-office receipts.

According to Deadline, the Avatar sequel directed by James Cameron reached a full of $2.024bn connected Sunday, meaning that it is present up of Spider-Man: No Way Home and Jurassic World connected the list of highest grossing films. Deadline predicts that it volition overtake the adjacent 2 films, Avengers: Infinity War and Star Wars: The Force Awakens aboriginal this week to scope No 4.

This volition mean Cameron volition person directed 3 of the apical 4 films of each time, with the archetypal Avatar movie astatine No 1 with $2.9bn, and Titanic astatine No 3 with $2.2bn. Only Avengers: Endgame, astatine No 2 with $2.8bn, interrupts the sequence.

Avatar: The Way of Water’s results person been greatly assisted by its dominance extracurricular the US container office. Deadline reports it has go the No 1 all-time movie successful Austria, Lebanon, Slovakia, Mongolia and Colombia among others, and has go the biggest Hollywood movie of each clip successful India (where it has taken $57.9m). Its strongest non-US territory is China, wherever it has been the No 1 movie for 5 weeks and yielding $229.7m. However the lunar caller twelvemonth vacation has seen a harvest of commercialized caller releases, with The Wandering Earth II replacing it astatine the apical of the charts.

Analysis by Screen Rant’s Stephen M Colbert suggests that the film’s last haul volition beryllium astatine slightest $2.5bn, which would spot it overtake Titanic and onshore successful 3rd place.