‘Avatar: The Way of Water’ Takes Down ‘Jurassic World’ as Seventh-Highest Grossing Film in History With $1.7 Billion - Variety

Isla Nublar has thing connected Pandora. James Cameron’s blockbuster sequel “Avatar: The Way of Water” has grossed $1.708 cardinal globally, overtaking “Jurassic World” ($1.67 billion) arsenic the seventh-highest grossing movie successful container bureau history.

After lone 4 weeks of release, “The Way of Water” has generated $517 cardinal successful North America and $1.19 cardinal overseas. At the planetary container office, it’s present the fifth-highest movie, down lone “Avatar,” “Avengers: Endgame,” “Titanic” and “Avengers: Infinity War.”

Based connected its worldwide summons sales, “Avatar: The Way of Water” besides stands arsenic the highest-grossing movie released successful 2022, arsenic good arsenic the second-biggest movie of the pandemic era, pursuing 2021’s “Spider-Man: No Way Home” ($1.91 billion). But the Na’vi person their sights acceptable connected taking down Peter Parker, whose latest escapade ranks arsenic the sixth highest-grossing planetary merchandise of all-time.

At this rate, “Avatar 2” has a existent changeable astatine crossing $2 cardinal worldwide — a astir intolerable benchmark successful COVID times. Even “Spider-Man: No Way Home,” a runaway container bureau sensation, fell conscionable shy of that peculiar milestone. The superhero sequel didn’t play successful China, which is simply a large marketplace for Marvel movies.

It’s a lofty extremity with oregon without the pandemic, to beryllium sure. The lone 5 movies successful past to surpass the $2 cardinal people are “Avatar” ($2.9 billion), “Avengers: Endgame” ($2.79 billion), “Titanic” ($2.2 billion), “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” ($2.069 billion) and “Avengers: Infinity War” ($2.04 billion). For anyone keeping score, Cameron has directed 2 of those 5 movies.

The long-delayed sequel to 2009’s “Avatar” has remained a immense theatrical gully since opening successful mid-December with $134 cardinal successful North America and $435 cardinal globally. That’s bully quality due to the fact that Disney, which holds the rights to “Avatar” aft acquiring 20th Century Fox successful 2019, spent astatine slightest $350 cardinal to marque “The Way of Water” and much than $100 cardinal much to marketplace the expansive instrumentality to Pandora. With those stratospheric figures, “The Way of Water” requires overmuch much than the mean tentpole to interruption even. Plus, Cameron is already readying to marque 3 much sequels.