{"id":349344,"date":"2026-01-03T04:28:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T04:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/349344\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T04:28:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T04:28:09","slug":"third-avatar-targets-1-5-1-8-billion-total","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/349344\/","title":{"rendered":"Third &#8220;Avatar&#8221; Targets $1.5-1.8 Billion Total"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/third-avatar-targets-1-5-1-8-billion-total.jpg\" data-caption=\"Disney\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"464\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/third-avatar-targets-1-5-1-8-billion-total.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"third-avatar-targets-1-5-1-8-billion-total\"\/><\/a>Disney<\/p>\n<p>James Cameron\u2019s \u201cAvatar: Fire and Ash\u201d has just passed the $900 million box-office mark, but how much further will it go?<\/p>\n<p>With a reported budget of $400 million, the third film needs to have a long cinema run to justify any further entries in the series.  The first film ended its run with a $2.9 billion global gross in 2009.<\/p>\n<p>The second film, \u201cAvatar: The Way of Water,\u201d closed out its run in 2022 with $2.3 billion.  Now, with over two weeks of data on the film\u2019s performance on hand, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/h\/charts\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">THR<\/a> reports that box-office analysts are suggesting the film will end its run somewhere between $1.5-1.8 billion worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s incredibly impressive, making it one of the year\u2019s biggest hits, but may not be enough to justify a fourth and fifth feature.  On Day 14, the film stands at $266 million domestic and $935 million worldwide, compared to the second film at $358 million domestic and over $1 billion internationally at the same point.<\/p>\n<p>The news comes as the global box-office of 2025 has ended with $33.5 billion \u2013 up 12% on 2024.  Removing China from the equation, where the $2+ billion success of \u201cNe Zha 2\u201d has impacted, growth for the rest of the world is still 8% up.<\/p>\n<p>Previous article<a href=\"https:\/\/www.darkhorizons.com\/house-of-the-dragon-will-end-with-s4\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cHouse of the Dragon\u201d Will End With S4<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Disney James Cameron\u2019s \u201cAvatar: Fire and Ash\u201d has just passed the $900 million box-office mark, but how much&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":349345,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[94966,96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-349344","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-bigslider","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-movies","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom","13":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349344\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}