‘Avatar: The Way Of Water’ Swims Past $2B Worldwide – International Box Office - Deadline

Refresh for latest…: It’s present official, James Cameron’s Avatar: The Way of Water has go the sixth movie ever to transverse the $2B people worldwide. It is besides the filmmaker’s 3rd to deed the milestone, alongside Titanic and the archetypal Avatar.

The mega-achievement was presaged ahead of the weekend with the planetary gross connected the 20th Century Studios/Disney sequel present $2.024B done Sunday. That includes $1.426B from overseas turnstiles. This means that offshore, Way of Water has go the No. 4 rubric of each time, jumping past Avengers: Infinity War and down lone Avatar, Avengers: Endgame and Titanic. This gives Cameron bragging rights to 3 of the apical 4 movies ever astatine the international container office.

On a worldwide basis, Way of Water remains the No. 6 movie ever, with the Na’vi adjacent acceptable connected leap-frogging Infinity War and Star Wars: The Force Awakens. When that happens aboriginal this week, the epic sci-fi escapade volition go the No. 4 movie of each clip globally – and springiness Cameron 3 of the apical four.

Also globally, Avatar: The Way of Water has grossed $227M from IMAX, overtaking Star Wars: The Force Awakens to go the 2^nd highest grossing movie successful the format’s history.

This sixth play wide saw a 38% driblet overseas, bringing successful a further $53.6M. Owing to the opening of respective titles for Lunar New Year (more to travel below), Avatar 2 had a 56% driblet successful China, nevertheless it has reached $229.7M determination and stands arsenic the highest grossing workplace movie of the pandemic epoch successful the market, besides having passed the archetypal merchandise of the archetypal Avatar.

The Top 10 overseas markets to day are: China ($229.7M), France ($129.8M), Germany ($117M), Korea ($96.9M), the UK ($81.9M), India ($57.9M), Australia ($55.1M), Mexico ($51.4M), Spain ($47M) and Italy ($45.3M).

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