{"id":363334,"date":"2025-12-21T22:44:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T22:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/363334\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T22:44:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T22:44:08","slug":"avatar-fire-and-ash-all-the-box-office-records-broken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/363334\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Avatar: Fire And Ash&#8217; &#8211; All The Box Office Records Broken"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tWhen it comes to an Avatar movie, it\u2019s always about their tail at the domestic and global box office. That\u2019s not just because of their runtimes, but also how they launch in the pre-Christmas corridor and find their gas throughout the year-end holiday stretch into January. Audiences want the best seats to watch this James Cameron directed 3D spectacle and will wait to get them. Realize that Cameron owns the No. 1, No. 3, and No. 4 spots on the list of highest grossing movies of all-time with 2009\u2019s Avatar ($2.92 billion worldwide), 2022\u2019s Avatar: The Way of Water ($2.34 billion WW), and Titanic ($2.26 billion WW). No other filmmaker can boast three spots in the top ten pics of all-time; not Steven Spielberg, not Christopher Nolan (however, the Russo Brothers do own two spots with No. 2 Avengers: Endgame at $2.799B and No. 7 Avengers: Infinity War at $2.05B, and their Avengers: Doomsday comes out a year from now). The three Avatar films have now earned over $5.6B to date globally which includes Fire and Ash\u2018s opening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tWe\u2019ll keep refreshing this list, as it\u2019s about the end results with <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/avatar-fire-and-ash\/\" id=\"auto-tag_avatar-fire-and-ash\" data-tag=\"avatar-fire-and-ash\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Avatar: Fire and Ash<\/a>, but here\u2019s how it shook out this weekend:<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tAt $345M, 2nd Biggest Global Opening Ever for James Cameron behind Avatar: Way of Water at $441.7M (not in like-for-likes, but historically reported). <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tAt $88M, 2nd Biggest Domestic Opening for Cameron behind Avatar: Way of Water\u2018s $134.1M. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t2nd Biggest MPA Global Opening of 2025 behind Zootopia 2 ($560.3M) and ahead of Lilo &amp; Stitch ($341M). <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t3rd Biggest Global Opening of 2025 behind Zootopia 2 ($560.3M) and China\u2019s local animated title Ne Zha 2 ($431.2M). <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t2nd Highest MPA international opening overall since Avatar: The Way of Water ($308M) in 2022,\u00a0behind only Zootopia 2. (Avatar: Fire and Ash\u00a0opened at #1 in all material markets except for Japan).<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tHighest MPA Movie International Opening of 2025\u00a0in France ($21.4M), Germany ($18M), Spain ($7.1M) and Korea\u00a0($13.6M).<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tBest Opening for an Avatar movie in China, and 2nd Biggest Opening in Middle Kingdom YTD with $57.6M behind Zootopia 2, and above Avatar: The Way of Water ($56M).<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tWith $43.6M, The Biggest Global Opening for Imax in 2025, and the Fifth Biggest In The Large Format Exhibitor\u2019s History. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tHighest opening for an Avatar film in Turkey and Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tHighest opening for an Avatar film in Vietnam and Indonesia ($5.6M).<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tHighest MPA opening weekend for 2025 in Singapore, Thailand, India, Indonesia and Vietnam.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tDisney Heading To $6 Billion Worldwide for 2025: The best post-Covid annual global haul for any Hollywood studio. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tLongest Runtime for an Avatar Movie at 3 hours and 17 minutes, ahead of Avatar (2 hours, 42 minutes) and Avatar: Way of Water (3 hours, 12 minutes). <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u00b7\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When it comes to an Avatar movie, it\u2019s always about their tail at the domestic and global box&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":363335,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[64,63,14711,134,344],"class_list":{"0":"post-363334","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-avatar-fire-and-ash","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-movies"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363334\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/363335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}