{"id":595013,"date":"2023-01-07T05:49:19","date_gmt":"2023-01-07T11:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.sellorbuyhomefast.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/07\/avatar-the-way-of-water-overtakes-top-gun-maverick-with-1-5bn-box-office-cnet\/"},"modified":"2023-01-07T05:49:19","modified_gmt":"2023-01-07T11:49:19","slug":"avatar-the-way-of-water-overtakes-top-gun-maverick-with-1-5bn-box-office-cnet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/07\/avatar-the-way-of-water-overtakes-top-gun-maverick-with-1-5bn-box-office-cnet\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Avatar: The Way of Water’ Overtakes ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ With $1.5bn Box Office – CNET"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Avatar: The Way of Water<\/a><\/span> had to make a splash. Not only did it need to measure up to the original film’s success as the biggest movie of all time, but there’s also a raft of planned sequels depending on this one doing well. But James Cameron (and Disney) can breathe a sigh of relief, because Avatar 2 has overtaken Top Gun: Maverick<\/a><\/span> to become the biggest box office success of 2022.<\/p>\n

The Way of Water is still showing on screens around the world as we swim into 2023. Opening weekend box office numbers were a bit soggy (well, comparatively speaking, because of the high expectations placed on the film). But after less than a month in theaters, Variety<\/a> reports that it’s taken in $1.48 billion at the global box office, making it the 10th-highest grossing movie in history.<\/p>\n

Driven by higher Imax prices and viewers coming back to see it again, the film could continue to make money. There’s little blockbuster competition until mid-February, the release date for another Disney-opened property, the Marvel flick Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania<\/a><\/span>. A longer theatrical run will also push back the date Way of Water splashes onto streaming service Disney Plus, especially as Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’s streaming release already suggests Disney is holding films back<\/a><\/span> before making them available online.<\/p>\n

Despite Way of Water’s success, the film’s eye-watering budget<\/a> means it needs to keep making it rain at the box office just to break even. Still, it’s looking good for the Avatar series to continue. Avatar 3 will hit theaters in December 2024, and it’s surely looking good for the planned fourth and fifth films to go ahead.<\/p>\n

If Cameron’s sequel tops $1.9 billion, it’ll beat Spider-Man: No Way Home as the biggest global release of the pandemic era. It it ends up making $2 billion, it’ll be the first film to do so since the COVID pandemic closed theaters. Already in the double-bill club are Avengers: Infinity War and Endgame, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Cameron’s Titanic and the original Avatar. \u00a0<\/p>\n

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Avatar: The Way of Water had to make a splash. Not only did it need to measure up to the original film’s success as the biggest movie of all time, but there’s also a raft of planned sequels depending on this one doing well. But James Cameron (and Disney) can breathe a sigh of relief<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":595014,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25553,46,2327],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-595013","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-avatar","8":"category-technology","9":"category-water"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=595013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595013\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/595014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=595013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=595013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=595013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}