James Cameron's blockbuster epic “Titanic” has relinquished its spot as the third-highest grossing movie in history to another James Cameron blockbuster epic, “Avatar: The Way of Water.” The sci-fi sequel has generated $2.2433 billion globally, enough to overtake “Titanic” ($2.2428 billion) at the worldwide box office.
After more than two months in theaters, director James Cameron's Avatar: The Way of Water has overtaken the filmmaker's own 1997 blockbuster Titanic at the domestic box office. This comes after The Way of Water sank Titanic at both the global box office and at the overseas box office.
Avatar 2 Is Still The Highest-Grossing Movie Of 2023
Avatar: The Way of Water's box office is still breaking records, with it still continuing to make money. Although it probably won't surpass the original Avatar, its 2023 box office is still impressive.
According to Box Office Mojo, James Cameron's Avatar 2 has grossed USD 2.054 billion worldwide, which is higher than the lifetime collection of Infinity War, which stood at USD 2.052 billion.
Filming on this sequel began back in 2017, with Cameron pushing even his own boundaries. "The key to it was to shoot really underwater and really at the surface of the water," he said. "It looks real because the motion was real, and the emotion was real."
Avatar 2's Space Whales Are Part of a Rich Sci-Fi Tradition
As a dangerous, potentially deadly prank, the son of the village's chieftain leads Lo'ak out beyond the reef that protects them from ocean predators, and Lo'ak is nearly killed by a terrifyingly vicious shark-like creature called an akula.
The people of Earth who killed her family, the people of Earth who destroyed her home." Cameron added that Earth won't make an appearance in the second, third, or fourth installments of the Avatar series, but, "by five, you will see action on Earth...
James Cameron's Avatar: The Way of Waterhas surpassed Star Wars: The Force Awakens to become the fourth highest-grossing film of all time.
Biggest Box Office Opening For A James Cameron Film
ScreenRant shared that Avatar 2 achieved the highest domestic box office opening ever for director James Cameron with $134M, toppling the $77M - roughly $107M adjusted for inflation - a record that was previously held by 2009's Avatar.
Releasing 13 years after the first installment, 'Avatar 2' is one of the most expensive movies ever made. According to reports, the movie cost $350-400 million. The visual extravaganza minted $ 1 billion globally within 14 days of its release.
'Avatar 2' Topping Massive $2.3 Billion Global Box Office.
The Super Mario Bros Movie has really come a long way at the box office. The film was expected to do well, but the actual run has surprised one and all. In fact, it has now joined the league of Avatar 2, Top Gun: Maverick and other Hollywood biggies to become the $1 billion grosser globally in the post-Covid era.
Titanic 666 (also known as Titanic Rises and Titanic 3) is a 2022 American supernatural horror film directed by Nick Lyon and produced by The Asylum. It is a sequel to Titanic II (2010) and stars Jamie Bamber and Keesha Sharp.
The period between these two films is the longest gap in Cameron's filmography (the span between Titanic and Avatar comes close to twelve years), making The Way of Water highly anticipated simply for the fact that this film has taken so long to come to fruition.
“Avatar: The Way of Water” is the biggest visual effects project the company has ever taken on. Only two shots in the entire film contain no visual effects. Despite all those long skin-pruning sessions in the tank and the vast quantities of water in the sequel, nearly all of the water in the film is computer-generated.
The Avatar sequel is the second-fastest film after Avengers: Endgame to breach the $2 billion landmark, achieving the feat in just 39 days—a full six days earlier than the original Avatar, which was previously the second-fastest to the milestone.
Despite needing to become one of the top 10 grossing movies in history in order to break even, James Cameron's Avatar: The Way of Water has, in fact, crossed that line less than a month after its release — which means that not only are we going to keep visiting Pandora for the next few years, but Cameron also gets to ...
Avatar 2 Box Office Beats No Way Home, Becomes Highest-Grossing Pandemic Movie. James Cameron's Avatar: The Way of Water swims past Spider-Man: No Way Home at the worldwide box office to become the 6th highest-grossing movie ever.
Now, “The Way of Water” trails only “Avatar” ($2.92 billion) and “Avengers: Endgame” ($2.7 billion) on the all-time charts.
M. Night Shyamalan's horror film “Knock at the Cabin” collected $14.2 million in its opening weekend, enough to top box office charts and dethrone “Avatar: The Way of Water” after spending seven weeks at No. 1.
Everyone is safe and sound, but Jake decides to end the struggle by taking down the Colonel. The two avatars fight to their deaths in a sinking ship, trapped inside a flooding chamber. As for Neytiri', she gets sucked into the ship after Tuk slips inside a shaft.
“Four forthcoming Avatar films, expanding the vibrant world of Pandora, will release on the pre-Christmas weekend every other year beginning in 2021,” Disney says. We're getting the sequel on December 17, 2021; Avatar 3 on December 22, 2023; Avatar 4 on December 19, 2025; and Avatar 5 on December 17, 2027.
Producer Jon Landau has let a key Avatar 5 element slip, and while it sounds intriguing, it could ruin what Avatar is all about. In a conversation with io9, Landau revealed that a portion of Avatar 5 — should it come to fruition — would bring Neytiri and the Na'vi to an alien world: Earth.
According to Cameron's most recent comments, he thinks Avatar 5 will bring the action to Earth. In the director's words, Neytiri will see that not all humans are bad, but the audience will also see that not all Na'vi are good — which softly implies an Avatar alien-invasion movie.