Avatar: The Way Of Water Makes A Big Splash At The Box Office

A nonetheless from Avatar: The Way Of Water. (courtesy: YouTube)

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The Avatar sequel has set the money registers ringing around the globe with its marvellous theatrical run. According to a report by US-based leisure portal, Variety, Avatar: The Way of Water has now crossed the 1 billion USD mark on the world field workplace, taking simply 14 days to get there. With this, the James Cameron movie has created a file for crossing this coveted milestone quicker than another film launched in 2022.

As per Variety, solely three movies grossed greater than 1 billion USD this yr. Other than the Avatar sequel, the listing consists of Top Gun: Maverick and Jurassic World Dominion, which reached the milestone in 31 days and greater than 4 months respectively.

The Way of Water is the quickest to gross this quantity since 2021’s Spider-Man: No Way Home.

Earlier, the movie turned the fifth-highest grosser of the yr with USD 855 million (equal to INR 7,000 crores) in worldwide ticket gross sales after 10 days in theatres.

According to Variety, the highest-grossing nation outdoors of North America for Avatar 2 has been China, with USD 100.5 million, adopted by Korea (USD 53 million), France (USD 52.3 million), India (USD 37 million), and Germany (USD 35.7 million).

However, as per Variety, there are a variety of the explanation why the sequel will discover it troublesome to match the success of the primary film, which introduced in USD 2.97 billion globally, making it the highest-grossing image in historical past.

For starters, the worldwide field workplace hasn’t completely recovered from the pandemic, and vital markets like China are seeing the an infection reemerge. The sequel will not be additionally seen in Russia, the place the primary film made USD 116 million.

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