{"id":408089,"date":"2026-01-12T10:22:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T10:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/408089\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T10:22:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T10:22:11","slug":"avatar-tops-global-box-office-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/408089\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Avatar&#8221; Tops Global Box-Office Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/avatar-tops-global-box-office-again.jpg\" data-caption=\"20th Century Studios\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"464\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/avatar-tops-global-box-office-again.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"avatar-tops-global-box-office-again\"\/><\/a>20th Century Studios<\/p>\n<p>James Cameron\u2019s \u201cAvatar: Fire and Ash\u201d topped the box-office again globally this past weekend, the title adding a further $86 million worldwide in its fourth weekend of release, bumping it up to $1.23 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Though highly impressive, the film appears to be losing steam a bit faster than \u201cAvatar: The Way of Water\u201d, which was at $1.7 billion by the end of its fourth weekend, ahead of a $2.3 billion total.<\/p>\n<p>With no holidays this weekend, the film fell 52%. Domestically, the film is the first since \u201cBarbie\u201d in 2023 to rank No. 1 for four weekends in a row.<\/p>\n<p>The title recently surpassed \u201cLilo &amp; Stitch\u201d to become the second-highest-grossing Hollywood release of 2025 behind only \u201cZootopia 2\u201d, which is currently at $1.65 billion and still going with a further $40.9 million worldwide in its seventh weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, \u201cThe Housemaid\u201d is up to $192.5 million worldwide and looks likely to cross the $200 million mark \u2013 a big success for a $35 million-budgeted feature.  \u201cAnaconda\u201d passed the $100 million mark this weekend, adding a further $12.7 million worldwide for a $110.1 million total \u2013 not bad for a $45 million budgeted film.<\/p>\n<p>Paramount\u2019s \u201cPrimate\u201d opened domestically and with very limited overseas markets, the title pulling in $11.3 million in the US and $13.4 million worldwide.  \u201cGreenland 2: Migration\u201d meanwhile landed at $8.5 million domestically and $12.8 million worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>The new \u201cSpongeBob\u201d film and \u201cMarty Supreme\u201d are now up to $132.2 million worldwide and $84.1 million worldwide respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2026\/film\/box-office\/box-office-avatar-fire-and-ash-leads-fourth-weekend-1236628272\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Variety<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"20th Century Studios James Cameron\u2019s \u201cAvatar: Fire and Ash\u201d topped the box-office again globally this past weekend, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":408090,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[64,63,142132,134,344],"class_list":{"0":"post-408089","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-bigslider","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-movies"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408089","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=408089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/408090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}