‘Avatar: The Way Of Water’ Heads For $17M+ Tuesday – Box Office - Deadline

20th Century Studios/Disney’s Avatar: The Way of Water‘s Tuesday container bureau is looking astatine $17M, and could perchance topple Minions: Rise of Gru‘s archetypal Tuesday of $17.5M to go the champion Tuesday of 2022.

Some rival studios are seeing higher, but we’ll spot however it settles travel the morning. In its 5th day, the James Cameron directed sequel’s moving home container bureau volition emergence to $167.3M.

I perceive Avatar 2 has astir $8M successful pre-sales heading into the upcoming weekend, which is beardown per 1 organisation root for a play 2 of a movie. Imax repped 14% of Avatar 2‘s $16M Monday container bureau which is up from the 12.3% indexing implicit the weekend.

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story seems to beryllium the existent comp for Avatar 2. That Lucasfilm rubric minted $17.5M connected its archetypal Tuesday, which Avatar 2 could best. Rogue One also saw a 2nd 4-day play of $96.1M, which was the past clip Christmas fell connected a Sunday, conscionable similar this year. It’s a fig that Avatar 2 could feasibly scope successful its Friday-Monday span adjacent weekend.

The archetypal Avatar saw its 2nd play hap besides implicit a Christmas frame, but the vacation fell connected a Friday (which is amended than the vacation falling connected a Saturday oregon Sunday). The movie successful 2009 lone dipped 1.8% successful play 2 with $75.6M compared to its opening 3-day of $77M. Amazing.

Globally, Avatar 2 will alert past the fractional cardinal constituent today. The sequel helped propel Disney past the $4 cardinal worldwide bureau constituent this year; the astir to day for immoderate studio.

You tin work the remainder of our Christmas container bureau coverage here; the lone different caller wide merchandise that has a changeable of grossing northbound of $100M yet this play is Universal/Dreamworks Animation’s Puss successful Boots: The Last Wish which opens tomorrow, sans previews tonight. That Joel Crawford-Januel Mercado directed sequel is looking astatine a 4-day betwixt $15M-$20M.