Sci-Fi Avatar: The Way Of Water

[Mr. Peanut]

So he's gonna complete the pokemon starter type triangle, eh?

 

[Iceman]

 

[Iceman]

So he's gonna complete the pokemon starter type triangle, eh?

I need this to be Cameron’s true motivation.

 

[Kane52630]

Currently at #25 All Time Domestic & #14 All Time Worldwide


Domestic (31.5%)
$440,517,914

International (68.5%)
$956,900,000

Worldwide
$1,397,417,914

 

[Filmfreak]

It's crazy that every week it keeps making pretty much the same worldwide numbers. With one more month to go before another big film arrives, I think it will be hard not to pass the 2 billion dollar mark after all.

 

[Kane52630]

Also, I think it finally broke even according to other sources.

Box Office: ‘Avatar: The Way of Water’ Rules Over New Year’s, Global Gross Hits $1.38 Billion

But all that innovation didn’t come cheap and Cameron has suggested that in order to turn a profit for Disney, the company that bought the rights to “Avatar” when it purchased much of 21st Century Fox in 2019, the movie will need to be one of the highest-grossing films in history. Sources put “Avatar: The Way of Water’s” break-even point at roughly $1.4 billion, a figure it is on the precipice of passing.

 

[weezerspider]

I saw it yesterday, now first things first "Marines don't die, sure you can kill us but we just regroup in Hell!" that is the line of the year and the sister line to "I ain't got time to bleed" that defined 80's action movies!

As someone who grew up around Marines, it is my duty to inform you that, believe it or not, that line is not of Cameron’s creation, but a very common rallying cry ala Semper fi. I can not tell you how many times I have heard that line from my brother when we are playing each other in video games.

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[Iceman]

Currently at #25 All Time Domestic & #14 All Time Worldwide


Domestic (31.5%)
$440,517,914

International (68.5%)
$956,900,000

Worldwide
$1,397,417,914

$1.4B already! This series makes box office look like a simple game. The dollars flowing in like water.

 

[Iceman]

Also, I think it finally broke even according to other sources.

Box Office: ‘Avatar: The Way of Water’ Rules Over New Year’s, Global Gross Hits $1.38 Billion

Pure profit incoming from here on out.

 

[Filmfreak]

Also, I think it finally broke even according to other sources.

I too was thinking it would take 1.2-1.4 to break even. Never bought the 2 billion dollars claim.

 

[DarkKnight88]

You’ve gotta laugh though that Cameron himself threw out the 2 billion number just to tempt fate.

In a world where everybody wants to downplay how much it’ll take to be successful, he goes the opposite and still succeeds at it lol

 

[Iceman]

You’ve gotta laugh though that Cameron himself threw out the 2 billion number just to tempt fate.

In a world where everybody wants to downplay how much it’ll take to be successful, he goes the opposite and still succeeds at it lol

Very few films can be confident of a billion now that China is out for many. Avatar just coasts there without breaking sweat.

 

[Batgirl0202]

It's crazy that every week it keeps making pretty much the same worldwide numbers. With one more month to go before another big film arrives, I think it will be hard not to pass the 2 billion dollar mark after all.

Also, many schools and businesses will remain closed this week because of New Years Day falling on a Sunday, which means tomorrow is the official 'holiday' for many people. Many businesses won't bother to open on Tuesday. Government, colleges, and universities are definitely all closed this week, at least in North America...

The grand post-holiday reopening for many kids and adults won't happen until January 9, which gives the film another week of higher-than-normal playability. And then Americans have the three-day Martin Luther King Jr. long weekend coming up on January 16, too...

Plus, there's also talk of Oscar nominations, which should keep the party going right through January and February. The next big tentpole is Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, and that doesn't open until Feb 17...

I guess what I'm saying is $2 billion is pretty much a lock at this point. The only question now is how high it finally goes before running out of steam...

And here I was one of those people who thought the Avatar brand was no longer relevant...

 

[Iceman]

Also, many schools and businesses will remain closed this week because of New Years Day falling on a Sunday, which means tomorrow is the official 'holiday' for many people. Many businesses won't bother to open on Tuesday. Government, colleges, and universities are definitely all closed this week, at least in North America...

The grand post-holiday reopening for many kids and adults won't happen until January 9, which gives the film another week of higher-than-normal playability. And then Americans have the three-day Martin Luther King Jr. long weekend coming up on January 16, too...

Plus, there's also talk of Oscar nominations, which should keep the party going right through January and February. The next big tentpole is Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, and that doesn't open until Feb 17...

I guess what I'm saying is $2 billion is pretty much a lock at this point. The only question now is how high it finally goes before running out of steam...

And here I was one of those people who thought the Avatar brand was no longer relevant...

Yeah, still a bunch of factors boosting it in Jan. Within just 2 films Avatar will surely have already beaten many franchise’s lifetime earnings.

 

[Sithborg]

Never bet against Jimmy C.

 

[moviedoors]

Just give me the news that 4 and 5 are greenlit!

 

[Spider-Fan]

Saw it just now. About same feeling I had with the 1st one

 

[Iceman]

Just give me the news that 4 and 5 are greenlit!

With the amount of money this is going to make its looking very good. Can’t imagine they would have expected much more by this point.

 

[Iceman]

China is going to be very big for this film and is at $104m so far, but the film is not dependant on it at all. It's already made $850mish overseas without China!

 

[LoganGambit87]

 

[titansupes]

Jesus, JimCam.

 

[Iceman]

0% - that's a "good hold".

 

[sueb1863]

Saw it last night and wasn't terribly impressed.

Spoiler

The visuals of course were grat but there was too much dead space where nothing happened, and the Sully kids being constantly in danger got tiresome. It's like the writers didn't know what to do with them except put them in danger. The sea clan was interesting but they disappeared halfway through the big last battle.

And we get it, Earth people are evil, greedy bastards who all deserve to get eaten alive. They really pounded the 'Na'vi good and innocent nature children / Earth people evil incarnate' idea into the ground here.

I also can't believe Sully would leave the Quaritch clone alive knowing that he had sworn to destroy Sully and his family. If you have your enemy incapacitated, you don't just walk away, you break his neck or slit his throat so you know he's dead. And Spider saving the clone later on didn't make sense either since as the clone stated, he's not actually Spider's father.

But the thing that really puzzled me was the apparent fact that the avatars don't need a human counterpart to function. If all you needed to have a functioning avatar was the memories of the human they're cloned from, why have the human counterparts who have to be in the tubes? And why didn't they make a backup for Grace so the Grace avatar could function, instead of just floating around in a vat?

Lastly, it amazed me that Cameron had all this time to write a sequel and all he came up with more or less a rehash of the first movie. The Na'vi kick the butts of the evil earth people with the help of the Pandoran wildlife. Here's hope the third movie does something more original.

 

[The Shape]

 

[DarkKnight88]