{"id":217993,"date":"2026-01-05T14:55:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T14:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/217993\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T14:55:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T14:55:09","slug":"avatar-fire-and-ash-third-film-in-james-camerons-series-passes-us1-billion-mark-worldwide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/217993\/","title":{"rendered":"Avatar: Fire and Ash: Third film in James Cameron\u2019s series passes US$1 billion mark worldwide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">Coming in third at US$14.9m was Lionsgate\u2019s The Housemaid, a film version of Freida McFadden\u2019s best-selling novel about a young woman (Sydney Sweeney) who is hired by a wealthy couple (Amanda Seyfried and Brandon Sklenar) with dark secrets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">Marty Supreme, A24\u2019s period sports drama starring Timothee Chalamet, finished in fourth place with US$12.6m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">Anaconda, the new meta comedy action flick starring Paul Rudd and Jack Black as friends trying to reboot the original 1997 horror film, finished in fifth place with US$10m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">Rounding out the top 10 are:<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants (US$8.2m)<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">David (US$8m)<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">Song Sung Blue (US$5.8m)<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">Wicked: For Good (US$3.3m)<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">Five Nights at Freddy\u2019s 2 (US$2.7)<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">-Agence France-Presse<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Coming in third at US$14.9m was Lionsgate\u2019s The Housemaid, a film version of Freida McFadden\u2019s best-selling novel about&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217994,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[131628,8239,95,9526,4921,59871,8613,115626,156,35958,593,2079,1437,78,2454,14054,20558,32573,111,139,529,69,6270,51627,667,1963,23554,15412,58333,37168,3755,10507,86361,90698,102,28367],"class_list":["post-217993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-17b","tag-american","tag-and","tag-another","tag-ash","tag-avatar","tag-billion","tag-camerons","tag-entertainment","tag-estimates","tag-film","tag-fire","tag-global","tag-in","tag-industry","tag-james","tag-kept","tag-mark","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-north","tag-nz","tag-office","tag-passes","tag-sales","tag-series","tag-showed","tag-spot","tag-surpassed","tag-theatres","tag-third","tag-ticket","tag-us1","tag-us40m","tag-with","tag-worldwide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}