{"id":364892,"date":"2026-01-11T18:59:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T18:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/364892\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T18:59:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T18:59:11","slug":"avatar-3-to-top-box-office-with-20m-plus-fourth-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/364892\/","title":{"rendered":"Avatar 3 to Top Box Office With $20M-Plus Fourth Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tAvatar<\/a>: Fire and Ash will continue its box office<\/a> streak over this early January weekend, landing at No. 1 for the fourth weekend in a row with $21.3 million from 3,700 theaters. <\/p>\n

\n\tAvatar currently stands at $342.6 million domestically. While not performing as well as the first two Avatar films, Fire and Ash has easily cleared the global $1 billion mark after three weekends in cinemas, and after this weekend, its global total is set to land at $1.23 billion.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe James Cameron<\/a> franchise installment is coming in well ahead of the weekend\u2019s two new releases: Paramount horror Primate<\/a> and Lionsgate\u2019s Greenland 2: Migration<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tFor its part, Primate is vying for the No. 2 spot, opening at 2,964 venues and $11.3 million in ticket sales for its opening weekend. Johannes Roberts, known for horror thrillers like 47 Meters Down, directs the horror film about a domesticated chimpanzee that turns on the family that raised him (and some unwitting houseguests) after becoming rabid. Oscar winner Troy Kotsur stars in the $20 million-plus budget movie, along with Johnny Sequoyah and Jessica Alexander. Overseas, the movie landed $2.1 million for a global total $13.4 million.<\/p>\n

\n\tRunning close behind Primate is Amanda Seyfried and Sydney Sweeney starring success story The Housemaid with $11.2 million in estimated weekend ticket sales. The Paul Feig-directed thriller, which already has a planned sequel<\/a>, has a $93 million total in North America and $150 million worldwide.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn fourth place is the animated juggernaut Zooptopia 2, which earned $10.1 million in its seventh weekend of release and now has a global gross of $1.65 billion to date. The film is Walt Disney Animation\u2019s top-grossing movie.<\/p>\n

\n\tGreenland 2, a sequel to the 2020 disaster movie, is the weekend\u2019s other new entry and is coming in at No. 5 with $8.5 million from 2,710 locations. Lionsgate has the domestic rights to the Gerard Butler-starrer from director Ric Roman Waugh that takes place after the events of the first film, when a comet wreaked havoc on Earth. In the follow-up, the central family must leave their Greenland bunker in search of a new home in post-apocalyptic Europe.<\/p>\n

\n\tOutside of Avatar 3, notable holdovers at the multiplex include Timothee Chalamet\u2019s awards season frontrunner Marty Supreme, which earned $7.3 million over the weekend, dropping 38 percent. The Josh Safdie-directed ping pong epic, which has a budget of $70 million, has now passed that figure at the domestic box office. Also in the awards conversation is Park Chan-wook\u2019s No Other Choice, which generated $1.3 million from 147 screens over the weekend. That film, in its third week of limited release, has a cume of $3.6 million.<\/p>\n

\n\tElsewhere, Sony\u2019s adventure comedy Anaconda passed a milestone, earning over $100 million at the global box office. The Jack Black and Paul Rudd-starrer made $5.1 million in North America and now has a global total of $110.1 million.<\/p>\n

\n\tJan 11, 8:50 a.m. Updated with the full weekend box office estimates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Avatar: Fire and Ash will continue its box office streak over this early January weekend, landing at No.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":364893,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[10192,10194,7214,96,59,7534,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-364892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-avatar","tag-avatar-fire-and-ash","tag-box-office","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-james-cameron","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364892","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=364892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/364893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}