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Avatar: The Way of the Water is ringing within the brand new year with continually rising field workplace success. After hitting the $1 billion mark solely a handful of days ago, the film is at $1.37 billion globally and on track to hit $1.4 soon. Despite having launched in some worldwide territories earlier than the US, the film hit the billion dollar milestone at simply shy of two weeks. It's currently projected to finish with a final total someplace between $1.6 and $1.9 billion.
Heading into 2023, Way of the Water holds the second-highest spot of the worldwide field office, having surpassed Jurassic World: Dominion ($1 billion). It additionally recently handed Doctor Strange within the Multiverse of Madness ($955 million), Minions: The Rise of Gru ($939 million), and Black Panther: Wakanda Forever ($820 million). Legacy sequel Top Gun: Maverick maintains its #1 place with $1.49 billion.
Domestically, Way of the Water surpassed its 2009 predecessor in opening weekend, raking in $134 million over Avatar's $77 million. However, Way of the Water nonetheless has a lot of catching as much as do. The first film had extra consistency in gross sales and reaped the advantages of a number of theatrical re-releases. As such, it was able to earn $2.9 billion globally, whereas the sequel will ultimately want to gross roughly $2 billion to interrupt even. However, over this previous weekend, the film noticed a 2% increase because it grossed $63.4 million. It's present home total is $420 million.
Way of the Water brings viewers again to Pandora over a decade after the occasions of Avatar and follows Jake Sully (Sam Worthington), Neytiri (Zoe Saldaña), and their family. With their home plagued by war with the humans, they're forced to flee to the water clans, all of the whereas working with the opposite Na'vi to guard Pandora. The film was directed by James Cameron who co-wrote with Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver.
Apropos of any conflicting opinions on the film, Way of the Water has garnered excessive reward the place its visible results are concerned. Like Avatar earlier than it, the sequel ups the ante of its visuals, thanks to Cameron's ambitious imaginative and prescient and the VFX team's stunning accomplishments. In his review, Collider's Ross Bonaime credit many of the film's assets to its visuals, together with how movement seize helps with its character developments, and the water aspect that is "almost hard to believe that this is not some actual world that Cameron has discovered and is presenting to the world."
