‘Avatar: The Way Of Water’ Rides Wave Past $600M Global Box Office Amid Strong Mid-Week Play - Deadline

With beardown and accordant mid-weeks, James Cameron’s Avatar: The Way of Water has crested the $600M people worldwide. This comes aft it rapidly passed $500M global earlier this week, pursuing its $441.6M opening weekend. The existent worldwide full done Wednesday is $609.7M including $426.8M from the international container office.

The offshore cume lifts Way of Water to the No. 5 spot for a Hollywood rubric connected the 2022 overseas chart, having present surpassed Thor: Love and Thunder and The Batman. 

On Tuesday, the 20th Century Studios/Disney sequel added $40.5M from overseas markets, and connected Wednesday, a further $39.5M.

Domestically, arsenic Anthony has reported, Way of Water scored the 2nd biggest Wednesday of 2022.

International midweeks are landing astatine an mean 15% of the opening play (removing troubled China from the equation, that rises to 17%). Looking astatine markets that bowed aboriginal past week, France’s Wednesday was up 64% this week (last Wednesday had a World Cup semi-final), Germany was besides up, portion Korea and Italy were down astir 30%.

As we’re heading into a vacation play that sees Christmas Eve autumn connected a Saturday, and Christmas Day connected a Sunday, we’ll spot a importantly lighter 2nd framework — but from December 26-30, midweeks are again expected to beryllium robust.

In all, the Top 10 overseas markets done Wednesday are China ($70.5M), France ($37M), Korea ($32.1M), India ($26.5M), Germany ($26.1M), UK ($21.6M), Mexico ($19.4M), Australia ($15.8M), Italy ($13.8M) and Brazil ($12.9M).

Not included successful the totals supra are Thursday’s figures retired of China and Korea. In the former, an added estimated $3.8M brings the full done contiguous to $74.5M. In the latter, a $2.17M estimated Thursday lifts Way of Water to $34.7M.