Final 4-day holiday numbers 20th Century Studios/Disney’s Avatar: The Way of Water came in with $95.5M in its second 4-day weekend. Global is nearing $1 billion. Nancy will have more on that soon.
That 4-day weekend is just under that of Rogue One‘s 4-day second weekend of $96.1M, the last time Christmas fell on a Sunday in 2016. Monday’s $31.5M is just under that of the Star Wars prequel too which made $32M. Total stateside cume of $293.2M is 26% ahead of the original Avatar‘s first 11 days in 2009. That movie crossed the $400M threshold on its 23rd day of release (Jan. 9, 2010). Many wonder if Avatar 2 hits that mark as soon as New Year’s weekend.
Meanwhile, Avatar 2 has now earned $105.5M in IMAX global box office in less than two weeks — the fastest film to hit the $100M mark in IMAX since April 2019. James Cameron’s epic sci-fi sequel is only the 9th film in IMAX history to exceed $100 million in global box office. To date, IMAX has accounted for 11.4% of the film’s global gross on only a fraction of its total screens.
Through Monday, Avatar: The Way of Water has grossed $38M in U.S./Canada for Imax, 14% of domestic ticket sales to date. Offshore, Imax counts $67.5M.