Entering its fourth week of release, Avatar: Fire and Ash has grasped the projected gross earnings of $1 billion dollars in the global box office. Regardless of having bit of a slower rise than the Avatar films before it, momentum began picking up in the second week when the earnings expanded despite peaks and valleys in daily numbers.
The movie’s current theatrical stats are as follows:
$779,895,841 total gross internationally
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$315,861,857 total gross domestically
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$1,095,757,698 worldwide total
The goal of reaching a forecasted billion-dollar mark was achieved in 18 days by this project while it took Avatar: The Way of Water 14 days in 2022, and 17 days for the original’s release in 2009. The first two installments of the Avatar franchise stayed in the #1 spot domestically for 7 consecutive weeks and both earned $2 billion worldwide in about a month’s time.
All the while, this is James Cameron’s 4th film in a row to surpass the $1 billion milestone, according to a Weekend Box Office editorial on RottenTomatoes, three of them being all three films of the Avatar series with the first being 1997’s record-breaking Titanic; Two also hold the top two spots on the list of highest grossing movies internationally for 20th Century Studios.
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