'Avatar: The Way of Water' crosses $1B in ticket sales in just 14 days: Here are the 10 highest-grossing movies of 2022 - CNBC

"Avatar: The Way of Water" has made implicit $1 cardinal successful summons income successful conscionable 2 weeks.

James Cameron's blockbuster, the sequel to the highest-grossing movie of each time, joins "Jurassic World: Dominion" arsenic a 10-figure earner this twelvemonth and may depose Tom Cruise's "Top Gun: Maverick" arsenic the highest-grossing 2022 release by the extremity of its clip successful theaters.

"Avatar's" show means that 2022 volition extremity with 3 films passing the billion-dollar threshold astatine the container office.

While that's a acold outcry from the 9 billion-dollar grossers that 2019 — the last afloat container bureau twelvemonth earlier the pandemic — had, it's inactive an summation from 2020 and 2021 which had zero and 1 movies gain implicit $1 billion, respectively.

Though immoderate manufacture watchers had predicted that the home container bureau would transverse $8 oregon $9 billion, those hopes were dashed successful portion due to the fact that immoderate big-budget films person been delayed, including different Tom Cruise title, the hotly-anticipated "Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning".

"We mightiness person been successful a concern wherever we had 2 Tom Cruise blockbusters successful the aforesaid year," says Daniel Loría, editorial manager astatine BoxOffice.com. "So I deliberation that's wherefore we ended up connected an yet disappointing fig with summons sales."

Despite determination being 40% little movie contented successful theaters this twelvemonth compared to 2019, manufacture watchers inactive spot anticipation for the cinematic experience.

"What we bash cognize is we tin inactive person taste moments of going to the movies for thing that's uniquely a cinema experience," Loría tells Make It. "But we are seeing little and little titles coming retired from large studios."

These are the highest-grossing films of the twelvemonth that received a important home release, with data from Box Office Mojo arsenic of Dec. 28.

Release date: April 8

Worldwide gross: $402 million

Release date: April 15

Worldwide gross: $405 million

Release date: July 8

Worldwide gross: $760 million

Release date: March 4

Worldwide gross: $770 million

Release date: November 11

Worldwide gross: $803 cardinal (as of Dec. 28)

Release date: July 1

Worldwide gross: $939 million

Release date: May 6

Worldwide gross: $955.7 million

Release date: June 10

Worldwide gross: $1.001 billion

Release date: December 16

Worldwide gross: $1.03 cardinal (as of Dec. 28)