James Cameron, Avatar and Fire and Ash
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James Cameron's threequel achieved the milestone Saturday at the New Year weekend box office, while other notable holiday victors include 'Zootopia 2,' sleeper hit 'The Housemaid' and Timothée Chalamet's 'Marty Supreme.
Once again, Cameron has proven that betting against Avatar is a losing game. When the dust settles, Fire and Ash won’t just be remembered as a successful sequel; it's just another in a long line of movies that the King of the Box Office has taken on headfirst — and taken down with his bare hands.
“ Avatar: Fire and Ash ” is blazing past $1 billion at the global box office after 18 days of release. Those ticket sales include $306 million domestically and $777.1 million internationally for a grand total of $1.083 billion.
Over the weekend the studio announced that, perhaps to the surprise of no one , Fire and Ash joined the rest of the Avatar series in smashing past a billion dollars internationally after its launch in mid-December. Thus far, Fire and Ash has made $306 million at the domestic box office, and $777.1 million worldwide.
Fire and Ash has crossed the $1 billion mark globally, surpassing Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Rises in 2 weeks.
Lionsgate’s The Housemaid is currently claiming third with $12M+ at 3,070 theaters, -22%, after a $4.6M Friday. Total by Sunday for the Paul Feig directed thriller, Hidden Pictures production is $72.8M, which will be far past the filmmaker’s previous Lionsgate black comedy, A Simple Favor, which ended its stateside run at $53.5M.
Avatar: Fire and Ash is performing well at the box office, and has already earned $1 billion. So here’s when to expect it on Disney Plus.
In three weeks of release, “Fire and Ash” has cleared $1 billion worldwide. The third chapter in James Cameron’s Pandora epic collected $40 million over its third weekend in North American theaters, according to studio estimates Sunday.