{"id":227855,"date":"2026-01-05T02:59:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T02:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/227855\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T02:59:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T02:59:07","slug":"fire-and-ash-burns-through-1-billion-at-the-global-box-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/227855\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire and Ash’ burns through $1 billion at the global box office"},"content":{"rendered":"

James Cameron<\/a> can’t stop winning.\n<\/p>\n

The blockbuster maverick is riding high on the box office<\/a> returns from his latest effort, Avatar: Fire and Ash<\/a>, the third entry in his famously profitable fantasy series. Fire and Ash brought in $40 million domestically and $169.6 million around the world in its third week of release, bringing its global tally across the $1 billion threshold.\n<\/p>\n

The film CGI fantasia now boasts $306 million in total proceeds at home, and $1.08 million abroad, per Comscore. Fire and Ash’s domestic drop from $64 million in week 2 to this week’s $40 million represents only a 37 percent drop, a strong figure for a film of its scale at this point in its release trajectory. That same figure on the global stage dropped to 29 percent.<\/p>\n

Still from ‘Zootopia 2’.<\/p>\n

Disney<\/p>\n

Still, Cameron has yet to earn the right to take home the title of 2025’s highest-grossing film director. For now, that honor remains with Jared Bush and Byron Howard, the co-directors of Zootopia 2. Disney’s animated sequel currently sits at $1.58 billion at the global box office, and $363.6 million domestically, after taking in $81.7 million and $19 million respectively in week 6.\n<\/p>\n

Fire and Ash is also notably underperforming compared to its predecessor, 2022’s Avatar: The Way of Water. That film opened to a staggering $134 million, compared with Fire and Ash’s $88 million, and at this point in its release cycle, it boasted $425.5 million.\n<\/p>\n

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With 2025 now in rear view at the domestic box office, the year can be deemed a success, having grown 1.5 percent compared to last year with an $8.87 billion final count.\n<\/p>\n

The last few weeks played a major role in volleying the year over that net, with the sequelmania releases of Wicked: For Good, Zootopia 2, Avatar: Fire and Ash, and Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 drumming up a stunning amount of business at the box office. With Avatar and Zootopia locked in at the No. 1 and No. 2 positions since the former’s release in December, other titles have risen to edge Wicked and Freddy’s out of the way for the bronze.\n<\/p>\n

This week, Sydney Sweeney and Amanda Seyfried’s psychological thriller The Housemaid cleaned up with a $14.8 million domestic gross in its third week, while Timothee Chalamet’s ping pong drama Marty Supreme scored No. 4 with $12.5 million at the same point in its release cycle.\n<\/p>\n

Next up, Avatar’s supremacy likely remains undaunted, with the second week of January’s only major releases being Paramount’s simian horror Primate, and Lionsgate’s apocalyptic thriller sequel Greeland 2: Migration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"James Cameron can’t stop winning. The blockbuster maverick is riding high on the box office returns from his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":227856,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[93,61,60,270],"class_list":{"0":"post-227855","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-movies"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}