The return of ‘Titanic’ to theaters seemed like the perfect opportunity for the film directed by James Cameron will sweep again In addition, it had in its favor that it was the weekend before Valentine’s Day, but that has not prevented its relaunch from being a small disappointment and having had to kneel in front of ‘Avatar: The Sense of Water’.
Soderbergh defeats Cameron twice
‘Titanic’ has added an additional 6.4 million dollars at the US box office this weekend, which has allowed it to reach only the third position. Ahead of her we find ‘Magic Mike’s Last Dance’, a film that was scheduled to be released on HBO Max, but Warner He changed his mind at the last minute. Then its numbers have not been much either -the two previous installments debuted with much higher figures-, but it has accumulated 8.2 million dollars in 1,500 theaters, while ‘Titanic’ is available in 2,464.
In second position holds ‘Avatar: The sense of water’ with an additional 6.9 million dollars. That has allowed him to reduce the differences a little more with ‘Titanic’, who at the moment maintains the third position in the list of the highest grossing films of all time. In fact, the sequel to ‘Avatar’ It has also entered more worldwide this weekend: 25.8 million compared to 22.3 for ‘Titanic’.
Everything indicates that ‘Titanic’ will end up kneeling in front of ‘Avatar: The Sense of Water’ in the coming days, as the current distance between the two is around 15 million dollars. And if the former hasn’t outperformed the latter this weekend, I doubt it will in later days. Well, maybe Valentine’s Day is an exception.
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