‘Avatar: The Way Of Water’ Has Best Thursday Of 2022 With $20M, Will Cross $400M On New Year’s Day - Deadline

FRIDAY PM UPDATE: Avatar The Way of Water‘s 3rd Friday is connected its mode to $22M+, which is up 15% from its 2nd Friday of $19.2M a week agone and volition enactment the sequel’s 15-day full astatine astir $380M. Today’s gross is besides bigger than Rogue One‘s 3rd Friday of $18.2M. This looks to beryllium shaping up for a 3rd 3-day play of $57M, -10%, and 4-day of $75M, possibly adjacent a spot much astatine 4,202 theaters. By EOD Monday, Jan. 2, the 20th Century Studios/Disney/Lightstorm movie hopes to basal astatine $433.1M stateside.

Universal/DreamWorks Animation’s Puss successful Boots: The Last Wish is eyeing a 2nd Friday of $5.3M, +39% from a week ago, for a 3-day of $13.3M (+7%), 4-day of $17.7M astatine 4,121 theaters, and a moving full done 13 days of $62.1M, -33% down Sing 2 versus the aforesaid constituent successful time.

Disney/Marvel’s Black Panther: Wakanda Forever in its 8th Friday is seeing astir $1.6M, a 3-day of $4.7M (+33%), 4-day of $6.4M and moving full successful its 8th play of $439.3M. The sequel is successful play astatine 2,310 theaters.

Sony/Compelling Pictures/Black Label Media’s I Wanna Dance With Somebody is seeing a 2nd Friday of $1.3M, -35%, and a 2nd play of $3.7M, -22% and 4-day of $4.9M for an 11-day full of $15.4M. The Whitney Houston biopic is booked astatine 3,625 theaters.

Paramount/C2’s Babylon at 3,351 theaters is seeing $850K today, $2.9M for its 2nd weekend, -19%, and a 4-day of $3.3M raising its 11-day full $10.7M. The movie volition soon surpass the beingness home full of Guillermo del Toro’s Nightmare Alley, a dark, R-rated precocious brow big rubric from past Christmas which finaled astatine $11.3M.

PREVIOUS FRIDAY AM: It was different $20M time for James Cameron’s Avatar: The Way of Water, so large that it was the biggest regular container bureau Thursday of the twelvemonth aft the sequel’s Dec. 22 instrumentality of $14.6M and Top Gun: Maverick‘s June 2 gross. The movie’s moving full is $358M stateside with a 3-day expected to beryllium astir $50M and volition transverse the $400M threshold connected New Year’s Day per container bureau sources. New Year’s Eve Saturday isn’t expected to beryllium arsenic depressed arsenic Christmas Eve was a week ago.

To date, the Disney/20th Century Studios/Lightstorm movie has the pursuing regular 2022 records: apical and 2nd grossing Thursday, the 2nd and 3rd highest Mondays of the year, the 1st and 2nd highest Tuesdays, and 1st and 3rd highest Wednesday.

Total Thursday planetary was $67.9M. Overseas B.O. full cume is $810.6M –surpassing Top Gun: Maverick‘s $770M to go the No. 1 planetary merchandise of 2022 and No. 2 MPA rubric overseas successful the pandemic era. Ongoing worldwide full for Avatar 2 is $1.168 billion.

We perceive Comscore is down this AM, preventing others from reporting numbers. Disney didn’t person immoderate problems, clearly.

We’ll person much updates for you arsenic they come.