Avatar: Fire And Ash kept the North American box office churning, claiming the top spot for a fourth week running with US$21.3 million (S$27.4 million) in ticket sales, industry estimates showed Sunday (Jan 11).<\/p>\n
The third installment in director James Cameron’s blockbuster fantasy series has now earned a massive US$1.23 billion worldwide, according to Exhibitor Relations.<\/p>\n
Fire And Ash stars Zoe Saldana\u00a0as Na’vi warrior Neytiri and Sam Worthington as ex-Marine Jake Sully, who must battle a new foe threatening their family’s life on the planet Pandora.<\/p>\n
It is the fourth Cameron film to pass the US$1 billion mark, with the first two Avatar films and Titanic.<\/p>\n
Debuting in second place in the United States and Canada was Primate, a horror film about a violent pet chimpanzee, with US$11.3 million.<\/p>\n
“This is a good opening for an original horror film,” said David A Gross of Franchise Entertainment Research.<\/p>\n
“Horror stories that feature an evil creature generally perform better at the box office than horror stories about evil humans.”<\/p>\n
Not far behind in third place at US$11.2 million was The Housemaid, an adaptation of Freida McFadden’s best-selling novel about a young woman who is hired by a wealthy couple with dark secrets.<\/p>\n
Sydney Sweeney and Amanda Seyfried star in the Lionsgate release.<\/p>\n
Disney’s feel-good animated film Zootopia 2 \u2013 the other juggernaut of the holiday box office \u2013 dropped to fourth place at US$10.1 million. Its global total now stands at US$1.65 billion.<\/p>\n
Lionsgate’s disaster sequel Greenland 2: Migration starring Gerard Butler came in fifth place at US$8.5 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Avatar: Fire And Ash kept the North American box office churning, claiming the top spot for a fourth…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":407393,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[64,63,134,1973,344],"class_list":{"0":"post-407392","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-entertainment","11":"tag-hollywood","12":"tag-movies"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407392","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=407392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407392\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/407393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}