‘Avatar: The Way Of Water’ Moves Up To No. 4 Biggest Movie Ever Global, Leaving ‘Force Awakens’ In Its Wake - Deadline

Earlier this week, James Cameron’s Avatar: The Way of Water became the No. 5 highest-grossing movie ever worldwide, and, arsenic expected, has present surfed to the No. 4 presumption connected the all-time chart. In truthful doing, it leaves Star Wars: The Force Awakens successful its aftermath with astir $2.075B globally. 

Through Friday, the worldwide gross connected the 20th Century Studios/Disney/Lightstorm epic Avatar sequel is $2,074.8M, overtaking Force Awakens’ $2.071B. This means that Cameron has 3 of the apical 4 movies ever globally alongside the archetypal Avatar astatine No. 1 and Titanic astatine No. 3. Avatar: The Way of Water volition apical Titanic successful the coming week oregon truthful connected a planetary basis. However, Paramount is doing a Titanic home rerelease successful clip for Valentine’s Day, and Disney is besides handling offshore earlier Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania gets going, truthful determination could beryllium immoderate jockeying up arsenic we noted connected Thursday.

For Disney, the caller Avatar milestones mean the workplace has released 3 of the apical 5 planetary titles ever (including Avengers: Endgame astatine No. 2, portion Fox backmost successful the day, earlier it was nether the Disney umbrella, released the archetypal Avatar).

At the international container office, Best Picture Oscar nominee Way of Water is inactive No. 4 of each clip with $1,466.3M done Friday. Domestically, it is No. 13 astatine $608.5M.

Through Friday, the sci-fi adventure’s apical overseas markets are: China ($235.4M), France ($133.2M), Germany ($120.2M), Korea ($101.5M), the UK ($83.5M), India ($58.3M), Australia ($57.5M), Mexico ($52.3M), Spain ($48.1M) and Italy ($45.8M).