Nearly $900 millionAvatar 2: The way of the water“already recorded. After running for less than two weeks, the box office of the whole year was surpassed by comedy blockbusters such as “The Batman”, “Black Panther 2: Wakanda Forever” or “Thor 4: Love And Thunder”. All in all, James Cameron’s sequel to “Avatar: Descending to Pandora” is already the fifth highest-grossing film of 2022. “Minions 2” and “Doctor Strange 2” will already be overtaken today or in the coming days. Hardly anyone doubts that he will overtake “Top Gun 2: Maverick” at the top of the worldwide annual charts.
At first glance, the numbers in many countries around the world may have collapsed when comparing the second weekend to the first, but you need to take a closer look. In North America, it fell a whopping 58 percent, which is pretty much a headshot for a movie’s long-running forecast, but the circumstances are peculiar. Because In some parts of the US, ice storms with power outages prevented moviegoing and, more importantly, Christmas fell unfavorably on a weekend this year.
Long-term forecast for “Avatar 2” is still difficult
The special calendar situation makes general prediction for “Avatar 2” extremely difficult. Because given the circumstances, the previous numbers are strong, but without these circumstances they could still go up considerably compared to expectations and the well-anticipated goal of $2 billion. It is only gradually becoming clear whether those people who did not want to or could not go to the cinema for Christmas will make up for it in the coming days and weeks, how many people still go to the cinema through recommendations and how many fans watch the film several times.
How successful “Avatar 2” will be, whether the blockbuster sequel will “only” overtake the nearly $ 1.5 billion of “Top Gun 2: Maverick”, will it catch up and become the highest grossing film of 2022, only the sixth film ever breaks the magical $2 billion mark or comes very, very close to “Avatar’s” $2.9 billion, only time will tell.