‘Avatar: The Way Of Water’ Has Best Wednesday Of 2022 With $20.4M – Domestic Box Office - Deadline

After earning the highest grossing Tuesday of 2022 with $24.1M, 20th Century Studios/Disney/Lightstorm’s Avatar: The Way of Water also notched the champion Wednesday of the twelvemonth yesterday with $20.4M beating Top Gun: Maverick‘s June 1 instrumentality of $14.8M, and Avatar 2‘s archetypal Wednesday of $14.4M. At a moving full of $337.9M done 13 days, the James Cameron directed, Jon Landau produced sequel is pacing 1% up of Top Gun: Maverick at the aforesaid constituent successful time.

All-in planetary for Wednesday is $70.4M, with a $1.1 cardinal running worldwide total, which is the No. 2 planetary merchandise of 2022 down Top Gun: Maverick‘s $1.48 billion. It’s besides the 3rd champion merchandise of the pandemic epoch aft Spider-Man: No Way Home‘s $1.9 cardinal and Top Gun 2.

Four time play for Rogue One, which was the past clip New Year’s Day fell connected a Sunday successful 2017, was $65.5M, -32% from that pic’s 4-day Christmas stretch. That’s what Avatar 2 looks to emulate successful its 3rd weekend.

Universal/DreamWorks Animation’s Puss successful Boots: The Last Wish saw its 2nd Wednesday astatine $5.8M, +82% from its opening time a week ago. Through 8 days, the Joel Crawford-directed, Januel Mercado co-directed rubric stands astatine $38.7M.

Disney/Marvel Studio’s Black Panther: Wakanda Forever won’t halt with $1.5M yesterday, +69% from a week ago, for a moving full of $431.4M, presently the 2nd highest grossing movie of the twelvemonth stateside down Top Gun: Maverick‘s $718.7M.

Fourth belonged to Tri-Star/Compelling Pictures/Black Label Media’s I Wanna Dance With Somebody with $1.17M yesterday, -25% from Tuesday for a moving six time full of $9.47M.

Paramount’s Babylon made an estimated $784K successful time 6, -22% from Tuesday’s $1M. The Damien Chazelle directed pic’s moving full stands astatine $6.6M.

A shoutout to Searchlight’s twisty genre drama The Menu starring Anya Taylor-Joy and Ralph Fiennes. The Mark Mylod directed title’s moving cume of $34.77M has bushed the home last of the distributor’s acheronian play drama The Favourite, which was boosted by Oscar noms and a triumph for Olivia Colman. The pic made an estimated $270K yesterday. The movie is up for 2 Golden Globes for Fiennes successful Best Actor Musical/Comedy and Taylor-Joy successful the Actress Best Actress Musical/Comedy category.

Sony starts the constricted tally of their Tom Hanks drama, A Man Called Otto, in 4 locations: NYC’s Lincoln Square and Union Square and LA’s Century City and Grove AMCs. The pic stands astatine 71% caller connected Rotten Tomatoes.