‘Avatar: The Way Of Water’ Projected To Open To $150M-$175M+ At U.S. Box Office - Deadline

The agelong awaited James Cameron sequel to the highest grossing movie of all-time deed tracking this greeting with a projected opening of astatine slightest $150M. Tracking has it higher adjacent $175M, but rivals are bullish astatine $200M.

Here’s the happening — the pic is being comped against vacation fanboy titles, and the numbers that are being seen request to beryllium taken with a atom of salt. Avatar isn’t a front-loaded opening play fanboy movie, it’s 1 that volition play and play. A $150M opening is 95% up of the archetypal 2009 title’s $77M.

Everyone is going nuts implicit Avatar: The Way of Water forecasts due to the fact that the unaided consciousness (that indicator which measures those polled mentioning their want-to-see of the rubric without being prompted successful a poll) is successful the precocious 30s to 40s crossed each demos including Latino and Hispanic and Black. These are almighty figures which immoderate workplace would dice for.

Yesterday, it was announced that Avatar: The Way of Water was getting a China merchandise time and day with domestic, which is singular considering that the PRC has sidelined respective Hollywood blockbusters arsenic theaters person returned during the pandemic. The archetypal movie made implicit $260M successful China, fueled by 3D and Imax.

Advance tickets went connected merchantability for Avatar: The Way of Water on Monday. The movie is 3 hours and 12 minutes long.

Many aren’t acrophobic that the runtime volition interaction Avatar 2‘s numbers fixed the magnitude of escaped clip radical volition person astatine the extremity of the year, coupled with the information that determination are nary different tentpoles. Warner Bros. had Shazam: Fury of the Gods as large counterprogramming, but the workplace decided to marque that DC sequel an lawsuit successful and of itself, sending it to March 17 wherever there’s Imax screens.

When the archetypal Avatar opened, nary 1 knew what to expect. It was specified a zany, outsider sci-fi movie wherever aliens were the protagonists. Similar to Cameron’s Titanic, the movie legged retired large clip to a $2.9 cardinal planetary cume, making it the highest grossing movie of all-time. Stateside the pic settled aft a fewer re-releases, including this past fall, astatine $785.2M wherever it ranks arsenic the 4th highest astatine the all-time container office.

While mostly different studios person moved retired of the mode of Avatar 2, back erstwhile the archetypal 1 opened, 3 films were capable to play to wide audiences arsenic the second, 3rd and 4th choices implicit Christmas-New Year’s: Warner Bros. Sherlock Holmes ($209M), Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel ($219.6M), and the older-skewing Meryl Streep-Alec Baldwin romanticist comedy, It’s Complicated, which did $112.7M.