Avatar: The Way of Water Crosses $1 Billion at the Global Box Office In Just 14 Days - IGN

Avatar: The Way of Water has officially crossed $1 cardinal astatine the planetary container bureau successful conscionable 14 days, and it is the fastest movie successful 2022 to scope that milestone.

As reported by Variety, Avatar: The Way of Water has brought successful $317.1 cardinal successful North America and $712.7 cardinal internationally, which brings its planetary full to $1.025 billion. It has truthful acold surpassed Jurassic World Dominion arsenic the 2nd highest-grossing movie of the twelvemonth and it presently sits astatine the 3rd highest during the COVID-19 pandemic era.

Jurassic World Dominion took implicit 4 months to transverse the cardinal mark, and the different $1 cardinal container bureau movie successful 2022 that Avatar: The Way of Water sits down - Top Gun: Maverick - took 31 days to scope the milestone. For 1 much comparison, Spider-Man: No Way Home took conscionable 12 days to gain $1 billion.

Avatar: The Way of Water opened connected December 16, 2022, and brought successful $134 cardinal successful its archetypal play successful North America and $435 cardinal globally.

Director James Cameron has said Avatar: The Way of Water has to beryllium the 3rd oregon 4th highest-grossing movie of each clip to marque money, meaning it volition person to bring successful implicit $2 cardinal globally if it hopes to bash so. The sequel to 2009's Avatar outgo astir $350 cardinal and selling costs person exceeded $100 million.

The archetypal Avatar took 17 days to gain $1 cardinal astatine the planetary container office, and it continued to bring successful a ton much and decorativeness as the highest-grossing movie of each clip astatine $2.97 billion.

In our Avatar: The Way of Water review, we said that it "is a wide betterment connected its predecessor and, though its communicative isn’t breaking caller ground, its jaw-dropping visuals marque this an irresistible instrumentality to Pandora."

For more, cheque retired which quality from a James Cameron directed movie IGN's assemblage thinks is the best, our explainer of the ending of Avatar: The Way of Water, and where the sequel ranks connected our database of the champion films from Cameron.

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