{"id":350522,"date":"2026-01-03T20:13:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T20:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/350522\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T20:13:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T20:13:08","slug":"fire-and-ash-holds-strong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/350522\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire and Ash&#8217; Holds Strong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/avatar-fire-and-ash\/\" id=\"auto-tag_avatar-fire-and-ash\" data-tag=\"avatar-fire-and-ash\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Avatar: Fire and Ash<\/a>\u201d took an early lead at the post-New Year\u2019s box office, marking its third Friday at the top of the charts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tJames Cameron\u2019s third \u201cAvatar\u201d installment earned $14 million on Friday, holding strong with just a 38% decline from this time last week. The sci-fi epic is expected to gross $36 million by Sunday, bringing the domestic total to roughly $302 million.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tBringing up the rear was a batch of holdovers, including \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/marty-supreme\/\" id=\"auto-tag_marty-supreme\" data-tag=\"marty-supreme\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Marty Supreme<\/a>,\u201d \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/zootopia-2\/\" id=\"auto-tag_zootopia-2\" data-tag=\"zootopia-2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Zootopia 2<\/a>,\u201d \u201cAnaconda\u201d and \u201cThe Housemaid.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cZootopia 2\u201d once again cracked the top five on Friday, earning $7.1 million for a second-place finish. That\u2019s about a 6% higher gross than last Friday. An impressive feat, given Disney\u2019s animated adventure first hit theaters over a month ago. Kids are still out of school for winter break, which no doubt spurred the late-stage boost. The film looks to gross $18 million by Sunday, bringing the domestic total to $362 million.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cZootopia 2\u201d recently became Walt Disney Animation\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2025\/film\/news\/zootopia-2-highest-grossing-disney-animated-movie-1236621280\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">highest-grossing movie of all time<\/a> with $1.46 billion at the global box office. The film surpassed another animated sequel, \u201cFrozen 2,\u201d which earned $1.45 billion in 2019.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cThe Housemaid\u201d took third place with $5.2 million on Friday, impressively mirroring earnings from this time last week. The Lionsgate thriller, starring Sydney Sweeney as a live-in maid with a dark past, looks to add $13.8 million by Sunday for a domestic total of $74.6 million.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tRounding out the top five on Friday were A24\u2019s ping pong drama \u201cMarty Supreme\u201d and Sony\u2019s adventure comedy \u201cAnaconda.\u201d \u201cMarty Supreme\u201d took fourth with $4.6 million, marking a 32% decline from last Friday. The film is projected to gross around $11 million by Sunday for a domestic total of $55 million. \u201cAnaconda\u201d landed at No. 5 with $3.5 million, representing about a 34% decline. The film should make $9.2 million by Sunday, bringing the domestic total to $45 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cAvatar: Fire and Ash\u201d took an early lead at the post-New Year\u2019s box office, marking its third Friday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":350523,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[10194,96,106692,2839,56,54,55,50457],"class_list":{"0":"post-350522","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-avatar-fire-and-ash","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-marty-supreme","11":"tag-movies","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom","15":"tag-zootopia-2"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350522","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=350522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/350523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}