AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER Will Pass SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME At The Worldwide Box Office This Week

AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER Will Pass SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME At The Worldwide Box Office This Week

A James Cameron movie is once again about to overtake a Marvel blockbuster as Avatar: The Way of Water is now taking aim at the record currently held by Spider-Man: No Way Home. Read on for details...

By JoshWilding - Jan 17, 2023 04:01 AM EST
Filed Under: No Way Home
Source: SFFGazette.com

Avatar: The Way of Water's opening weekend may not have broken records, though the same could actually be said for 2009's Avatar. However, like its predecessor, the sequel is proving to have real legs. Interest in the movie has only increased since it first splashed down in theaters last month, and the 3D blockbuster is now nearing $1.9 billion at the worldwide box office. 

Deadline (via SFFGazette.com) reports that the sequel was estimated to have reached $1.894 billion by Sunday evening, with it set to pass Spider-Man: No Way Home's $1.921 billion global haul imminently (we're still waiting on updated figures so it may well have already done so).

The Spider-Man threequel was credited for saving theaters in 2021, though we've since seen that, in the wake of the pandemic, moviegoers will only show up to watch movies they really want to see. For example, Top Gun: Maverick smashed records last year, whereas Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, Thor: Love and Thunder, and Black Panther: Wakanda Forever all failed to hit $1 billion.

Avatar: The Way of Water will become the sixth biggest movie of all time once it passes Spider-Man: No Way Home, with Avengers: Infinity War and Star Wars: The Force Awakens up next.

Whether it can beat Titanic remains to be seen, though we don't anticipate the follow-up reaching Avengers: Endgame and Avatar. A Chinese release has definitely helped Avatar: The Way of Water and it is, without a doubt, a big enough hit for Disney to give James Cameron the green light to move forward with his planned sequels.

"Avatar: The Way of Water’s epic visuals are impossible to find fault with," we said in our review last month, "but with a paper-thin, painfully boring story and little in the way of character development, this three-hour snoozefest is all style, no substance."

Avatar: The Way of Water is still playing in theaters. There's no word on a Disney+ debut quite yet, though we anticipate Disney waiting as long as possible (similar to Black Panther: Wakanda Forever). especially with it doing numbers like this from week to week.

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MyCoolYoung
MyCoolYoung - 1/17/2023, 4:28 AM
Still haven't seen it, but good for James and crew helping keep theaters alive
bkmeijer1
bkmeijer1 - 1/17/2023, 4:45 AM
@MyCoolYoung - me neither. I might tonight though, if it will finally stop raining for the first time in [frick]ing weeks
MyCoolYoung
MyCoolYoung - 1/17/2023, 4:49 AM
@bkmeijer1 - how bad has the rain been?
TheDpool
TheDpool - 1/17/2023, 4:54 AM
@MyCoolYoung - Living in a constant state of frost or rain at the moment. Winter came about a year and a half ago and forgot to leave.

Let's see if we can get talking about the weather to top Avatar at the box office.
bkmeijer1
bkmeijer1 - 1/17/2023, 6:45 AM
@MyCoolYoung - it's not even that bad, just constant since the beginning of the year. Read it still isn't enough to bring the groundwater levels back to normal after last year's drought though. Go climate!
MyCoolYoung
MyCoolYoung - 1/17/2023, 10:37 AM
@TheDpool - @bkmeijer1 where are yall if yall don't mind me asking
bkmeijer1
bkmeijer1 - 1/17/2023, 11:23 AM
@MyCoolYoung - The Netherlands. Forecast was that it would stop today, and so it hasn't ruined my plans of going to see Avatar (yet).

Don't know if I should worry about that weird yellow orb in the sky that hurts me eyes when I look at it though.
TheDpool
TheDpool - 1/17/2023, 9:05 PM
@MyCoolYoung - Scotland, You can drive an hour and find Snow, yet ten minutes away the sun's shining.
MyCoolYoung
MyCoolYoung - 1/17/2023, 11:56 PM
@bkmeijer1 - probably not. Usually, weird things in the sky signify the bad guys' third act plan coming to fruition. Don't worry about it; the heroes got it
MyCoolYoung
MyCoolYoung - 1/17/2023, 11:56 PM
@TheDpool - wow really? And I thought chicago had bipolar weather
bkmeijer1
bkmeijer1 - 1/18/2023, 4:42 AM
@MyCoolYoung - good thing. And now that I've seen Avatar 2, I know what that bright light in the sky means: the skypeople are returning!
Spawnnn
Spawnnn - 1/17/2023, 4:34 AM
It probably already did. It's only 7 million behind NWH without updated overseas numbers. Pretty good so far for a movie nobody cares about.
UnderBelly
UnderBelly - 1/17/2023, 4:38 AM
I hope @TheHumanSpider2 takes the loss well. 😂

I won our bet, let’s see if he’s a man of his word and accepts the cost. Haha I’ll send you a couple options to choose from for your new ‘Avatar’ when it’s official.
bobevanz
bobevanz - 1/17/2023, 5:17 AM
@UnderBelly - he won't show up lol or make a new alt
TheHumanSpider2
TheHumanSpider2 - 1/17/2023, 7:12 AM
@UnderBelly -
UnderBelly
UnderBelly - 1/17/2023, 8:02 AM
@TheHumanSpider2 -
UnderBelly
UnderBelly - 1/17/2023, 8:02 AM
@bobevanz - I’d like to think he’s a man of his word.
bkmeijer1
bkmeijer1 - 1/17/2023, 4:40 AM
Was already waiting for this article.

Anyway, seeing how well it did the last few weeks this is no surprise. Think it'll top The Force Awakens and Infinity War in no time (and eventually Titanic).
Conquistador
Conquistador - 1/17/2023, 4:48 AM
@bkmeijer1 - Haha, Cameron's rereleasing Titanic this year for the 25th anniversary. Guy is making sure he's in the top 3 forever!

Anyway, looks like people like this movie. Not bad for what some call a forgettable and terribly bland movie.

Still need to take in second viewing.
bobevanz
bobevanz - 1/17/2023, 5:19 AM
@UniqNo - the way I see it, it's waaay better than the first. So my logic tells me that it'll make more, people are mad James Cameron is the primo of making a simple story with emotion and top notch effects lol
Conquistador
Conquistador - 1/17/2023, 5:33 AM
@bobevanz - No complaints from me! i had a good time with it. Only thing I would say is that the first 20 minutes was difficult to get use to with the HFR. Felt like i was in a video game.

It could easily loose a few minutes of the run time though, but i enjoyed all the excess in the sea etc.
bkmeijer1
bkmeijer1 - 1/17/2023, 6:47 AM
@UniqNo - was planning on finally going tonight, so good to know about the HFR. Heard more people about it being a bit too much.
TheCoonII
TheCoonII - 1/17/2023, 5:10 AM
Anyone who supported avatar has no right To call themselves an MCU fan
Origame
Origame - 1/17/2023, 6:24 AM
@TheCoonII - how about, we're human beings with the right to watch and support any movie we want, huh?

What you're describing isn't an mcu fan. It's an mcu fanboy. The difference being an mcu fan isn't gonna care how successful another film is.
LeonNova
LeonNova - 1/17/2023, 7:08 AM
@TheCoonII - You’ve got to be trolling, there’s no way you really take this that seriously
Origame
Origame - 1/17/2023, 7:28 AM
@LeonNova - I once got 2 full pages of insults and harassment over saying I didn't like captain marvel. Never doubt how pathetic fanboys can get.
AvatarSupremacy
AvatarSupremacy - 1/17/2023, 10:43 AM
@TheCoonII - OK good
ForceofWakanda
ForceofWakanda - 1/17/2023, 12:39 PM
@TheCoonII -

Lmao
Doomsday8888
Doomsday8888 - 1/17/2023, 5:11 AM
Veni, vidi, vici.
ObserverIO
ObserverIO - 1/17/2023, 5:12 AM
Welp, looks like you really shouldn't bet against Cameron.

Movie looked terrible, was terrible, nobody gave a shit to begin with, they barely care now, they won't care at all later, but...

It worked. Everybody and their pet squirrel has bought a ticket for this and in 3D, 4DX, IMAX, Technicolor, Vistavision and Smellovision too.

Well done, Jim, you did it again. Good for you.
bobevanz
bobevanz - 1/17/2023, 5:19 AM
@ObserverIO - seethe
ObserverIO
ObserverIO - 1/17/2023, 5:29 AM
@bobevanz - I don't really feel like seething.
tmp3
tmp3 - 1/17/2023, 5:29 AM
@ObserverIO - you can’t say the movie looked terrible when the article’s about it surpassing no way home, a movie that looked like visual vomit hahahaha
ObserverIO
ObserverIO - 1/17/2023, 5:38 AM
@tmp3 - That is also true, lol.

But in all honesty, even though NWH didn't look all that good (I still remember watching the clip with the "Scooby Doo that shit"... yikes), I didn't care about the quality, I was just down for the multiverse shit and the returning actors.

Avatar, I didn't care about anything.
Then people said I had to go see it and I thought I'd misjudged it. I hadn't.
It's Cameron, it's well done, but it's still not really worth going out of your way to see. It's definitely one of his weaker films.

But it works. He's providing a shared cinematic experience. People pay more because they have to see it in the special presentation format, rather than on their HD TV's at home. So everybody comes out driven by pure FOMO if nothing else.

It works. He's a mad genius.

Now James Cameron directing No Way Home? Well [frick] me silly and call me Sally. $2 Billion dollars, opening weekend and a much better movie than either Jon Watt's NWH or Avatar 2.

I wonder if he could be persuaded to do something X-Men related. Because Holy shit... that would be awesome. no caps, no hyperbole, meaningfully awesome.
TheWalkingCuban
TheWalkingCuban - 1/17/2023, 7:09 AM
@ObserverIO - neither does Seether, Caesar, CEASE HER! Her deceased niece feasted on her keester.
AvatarSupremacy
AvatarSupremacy - 1/17/2023, 10:44 AM
@ObserverIO - ladies and gentlemen I didn't know we were dealing with the smartest man in the world here
ObserverIO
ObserverIO - 1/17/2023, 11:36 AM
@AvatarSupremacy - Well he's not the smartest man in the world, just pretty smart when it comes to making box office.

Is your username supposed to be ironic? Because Avatar (the first one) does kinda have supremacy over all other movies in terms of box office.

That's just a fact. Don't hate the messenger.
bobevanz
bobevanz - 1/17/2023, 5:20 AM
[frick] the haters, now go back to work at Wendy's
AvatarSupremacy
AvatarSupremacy - 1/17/2023, 10:44 AM
@bobevanz - they love going back to Pandora because it's escape from the grill
tmp3
tmp3 - 1/17/2023, 5:26 AM
they’re both theatrical experiences more than anything, but avatar’s a stronger movie just by virtue of being a lot more consistent, whereas no way home had some really solid performances (garfield, dafoe) lift up somewhat weak film-making
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