{"id":373848,"date":"2025-12-28T10:02:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T10:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/373848\/"},"modified":"2025-12-28T10:02:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T10:02:13","slug":"avatar-fire-and-ash-still-heating-up-the-box-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/373848\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Avatar: Fire and Ash&#8217; still heating up the box office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s still fired up.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAvatar: Fire and Ash\u201d remains king of the box office, landing in the No. 1 spot for the second Friday in a row.<\/p>\n<p>The third installment in James Cameron\u2019s \u201cAvatar\u201d franchise pulled in $22.6 million on its sophomore outing at the box office,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/urldefense.com\/v3\/__https:\/\/thenumbers.com\/daily-box-office-chart__;!!F0Stn7g!D1HZFOwuN6pnMwSLez2NMwbN8BtS0CdIK8S7AmLh85PuCO_Zv3gR1VbjMMyZJIEiPKF5-HhCprpY5zwMZI70pD3pUfk$\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">according to The Numbers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAvatar: Fire and Ash\u201d is the third installment in James Cameron\u2019s \u201cAvatar\u201d franchise. \u00a920th Century Studios\/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/p>\n<p>In second place was \u201cMarty Supreme,\u201d which opened on Christmas Day and took in over $6.73 million on Friday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/12\/01\/entertainment\/marty-supreme-review-timothee-chalamet-wins-in-the-best-movie-of-the-year\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">The Post hailed<\/a>\u00a0the sports comedy-drama \u2014 which stars\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/03\/01\/entertainment\/see-nyc-native-timothee-chalamets-adorable-yearbook-pic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet<\/a>\u00a0as the titular character, a NYC table tennis prodigy \u2014 as \u201cthe best movie of the year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Disney\u2019s \u201cZootopia 2\u201d moved up two spots from last week to third, with sales of $6.7 million.<\/p>\n<p>Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet\u2019s character in \u201cMarty Supreme\u201d is loosely based on the late table tennis champion Martin Reisman. Courtesy Everett Collection<\/p>\n<p>Ginnifer Goodwin, Jason Bateman, Shakira and Idris Elba reprise their roles in \u201cZootopia 2.\u201d \u00a9Walt Disney Co.\/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/p>\n<p>In fourth was the reboot \u201cAnaconda,\u201d starring Paul Rudd, Jack Black, Steve Zahn and Thandiwe Newton as childhood friends attempting to remake the 1997 original, which features Jennifer Lopez, Ice Cube and Jon Voight.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tStart your day with all you need to know\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"inline-module__cta\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMorning Report delivers the latest news, videos, photos and more.\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tThanks for signing up!\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/12\/23\/entertainment\/anaconda-review-jack-black-and-paul-rudd-remake-j-los-snake-movie-in-funny-average-comedy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">The Post called<\/a>\u00a0the action comedy horror \u201ca pretty common jungle adventure hoisted up by the charms of Rudd and Black and a consistent supply of chuckles.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The biblical animated musical \u201cDavid\u201d was in fifth place, taking home over $4.74 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s still fired up. \u201cAvatar: Fire and Ash\u201d remains king of the box office, landing in the No.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":373849,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[35154,2642,3716,88,12625,20380,206,85073,112258,182923,57100],"class_list":["post-373848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-avatar","tag-box-office","tag-disney","tag-entertainment","tag-jack-black","tag-james-cameron","tag-movies","tag-paul-rudd","tag-steve-zahn","tag-thandiwe-newton","tag-timothee-chalamet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/373849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}