‘Avatar: The Way Of Water’ Sailing Past $500M Global Box Office - Deadline

James Cameron’s Avatar: The Way of Water has grossed $497.1M globally done Monday, good connected its mode crossed the fractional a cardinal people worldwide erstwhile Tuesday’s instrumentality is tallied. 

Already, the 20th Century Studios/Disney sci-fi escapade sequel has helped push the Walt Disney Studios past the $4B worldwide people for 2022.

While it came successful nether projections astatine the weekend, Way of Water is expected to spot beardown leg-out arsenic we participate the vacation period.

At the international container office, Way of Water did $38.8M connected Monday, which equates to 15% of the Friday-Saturday-Sunday offshore opening play (including China) and 17% erstwhile excluding that market. This is fundamentally connected par with applicable comps.

Through yesterday, the offshore cume is $346.8M, each rolling up to $497.1M worldwide.  

Not included successful the totals above, China, which is battling Covid spikes, had an estimated $4.4M Tuesday for a $66.8M cume. Korea’s Tuesday, besides not included above, was bully for an estimated $2.4M and a moving tally of astir $30M.

In France holds are beardown arsenic Way of Water has already crossed the 2M admissions mark, a tidbit that made nationalist quality vigor contiguous successful the aftermath of the World Cup.

Domestically, the movie enjoyed the biggest non-holiday Monday and 2nd biggest Monday of 2022 with $16.2M, arsenic Anthony reported. The North American cume done Monday is $150.3M.

Here are the Top 10 planetary markets done Monday: China ($62.1M), Korea ($27.4M), France ($26M), India ($22M), Germany ($21.3M), UK ($16.3M), Mexico ($15.6M), Australia ($12.5M), Italy ($11.7M), Brazil ($10M).