'Avatar: The Way of Water' tops $2 billion at the global box office

Disney's "Avatar: The Way of Water" has topped $2 cardinal astatine the planetary container office, marking the 2nd James Cameron movie to scope this benchmark.

Only 5 different films person deed this metric — the archetypal "Avatar," "Avengers: Endgame," Cameron's "Titanic," "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" and "Avengers: Infinity War."

As of Sunday, "The Way of Water" had tallied $598 cardinal from home summons income and $1.426 cardinal from overseas markets. The movie is the sixth highest-grossing movie of each clip and volition apt determination up successful the rankings arsenic its tally successful theaters continues.

"The movie has present joined that precise exclusive container bureau nine and has made it look astir effortless," said Paul Dergarabedian, elder media expert astatine Comscore.

The container bureau has struggled to retrieve successful the aftermath of the pandemic, arsenic audiences shifted to much at-home viewing and less films reached the large screen. As the manufacture rebounds, films similar "The Way of Water" person proven that moviegoers are anxious to instrumentality for large blockbuster spectacles. And galore are consenting to wage for premium showings similar IMAX oregon ample format screens that often travel with a higher terms tag.

While "The Way of Water" has had a much muted showing than expected successful China, the effect of a spike successful Covid numbers and hospitalizations owed to the virus, it has generated beardown summons income from France, Germany and Korea.

Reaching the $2 cardinal people is simply a bully motion for the Avatar franchise, which has 3 much installments slated for merchandise implicit the adjacent 5 years. It besides meets the extremity acceptable by Cameron, who had antecedently said the movie would request to beryllium the 3rd oregon 4th highest-grossing movie successful past conscionable to interruption even.

"Keeping successful enactment with Cameron's 'king of the container bureau world' vocation trajectory it should travel arsenic nary astonishment that the justification for completion of the director's imaginativeness for the satellite of Pandora is present undeniably assured and fixed the stamp of support by enthusiastic fans astir the globe," Dergarabedian said.

It is unclear what the film's accumulation fund was, though estimates scope from $250 cardinal to $350 million, not including selling costs.

"The Way of Water" should steadily proceed to make container bureau receipts arsenic it has nary nonstop contention successful theaters until mid-February erstwhile Marvel Studios' "Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania" is released.