The success of ‘Avatar: The Sense of Water’ at the box office is unquestionable and it is still not entirely clear what its ceiling will be. For now, the new work of James Cameron has dethroned ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ as the highest-grossing film released in 2022 and has also already slipped into the Top 10 of the list of the highest-grossing films in history. By the way, Cameron has become the first director with 3 films in that top -until now he was tied for two with the Russian Brothers-.
The sequel to ‘Avatar’ has already brought in 1,516.5 million dollars, a figure higher than the 1,488 achieved by the film starring Tom Cruise. In addition, it also exceeds the 1,515 achieved at the time by ‘Fast & Furious 7’, which closed the Top 10 all-time so far, and tomorrow it will surpass ‘The Avengers’ (1,518 million).
In fact, it is most likely that at the end of this week it will rise to seventh place, currently occupied by ‘Jurassic World’ with 1,671 million dollars. It will take a little longer to reach 1,916 million for ‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’, but right now no one doubts that he will achieve it.
The forecasts also suggest that it will easily exceed 2,000 million dollars, since the next blockbuster (‘Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania’) will not hit theaters until February 17, so ‘Avatar: The sense of water’ you have a clear path to continue accumulating money.
That does not mean that it is difficult for it to reach the 2,922 million that the first installment made or even the 2,797 million of ‘Avengers: Endgame’, but right now at no one would be surprised if it exceeded 2,201 million of ‘Titanic’ and became the third highest grossing film in history.
Taking that into account, in Disney I’m sure they are delighted that Cameon is already thinking about the next deliveries. In principle, ‘Avatar 3’ will arrive in 2024 and then they have already started talking about a seventh part…
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