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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.
Avatar: Fire and Ash has crossed a major franchise milestone, but it’s still not up to the success of James Cameron’s previous two installments. After just 18 days in release, Avatar: Fire and Ash has crossed the $1 billion mark at the global box office.
With three days left in 2025, the overall domestic box office is sitting at $8.76 billion, just 1.5% ahead of last year and roughly 22% behind 2019, according to Comscore. Annual revenues through Dec. 31 are projected to wind up at $8.87 billion.
James Cameron has done it again – Avatar: Fire and Ash has officially crossed the $1 billion mark at the global box office, turning the filmmaker into the only director in history to have four consecutive billion-dollar hits.
The studio hasn't been able to claim this feat since 2019, with its tentpole 'Avatar: Fire and Ash' easily dominating the long holiday weekend as 'Anaconda,' 'Marty Supreme' and 'Song Sung Blue' join the box office buffet Christmas Day.
“Marty Supreme” narrowly beat Sony’s disaster comedy “Anaconda,” starring Paul Rudd and Jack Black, which had a $9.1 million Christmas opening day for third place. It’s expected to slither to $22 million to $24 million this weekend and has a $45 million budget.
The Way of Water left off. This time, the Sully family’s human enemies have joined forces with a mysterious Na’vi warrior. It should be noted that Avatar 3 was initially slated for release in 2015. But the time it took to develop the technology required to shoot
Fire and Ash was the highest-grossing film at the box office this weekend with $88 million worth of movie tickets sold in the US and Canada.
Fire and Ash has become the fourth James Cameron movie to earn more than $1 billion at the global box office after Avatar, Avatar: Way of Water and Titanic. The global cume is $1.08 billion with $306.
Avatar 3’s Sigourney Weaver recently shared details about her favorite The Beatles member and the special message she wrote for him during an appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. She revealed that she wrote a lengthy message with purple ink,