‘Avatar: The Way of Water’ Passes $608 Million at Domestic Box Office

Director James Cameron’s Avatar: The Way of Water will claim its seventh straight weekend at number one, with a projected finish between $14 million and $16 million at the box office.

With $3.5 million on Friday — down just 24% from last week — The Way of Water’s running domestic total stands at an astonishing $608 million.

The epic science-fiction sequel is currently just outside the top 10 highest-grossing movies of all time, and by mid-week, it will surpass The Avengers’ $623 million haul to become the 10th-biggest film ever at the domestic box office. Globally, the film has made more than $2.07 billion, and has now overtaken the lifetime haul of Star Wars: The Force Awakens. The film will now settle into the fourth spot on the all-time list, behind another Cameron blockbuster, Titanic ($2.2 billion).

This means that the celebrated filmmaker will be responsible for three of the four biggest movies of all time at the global box office. The first Avatar remains the biggest film in history, with $2.89 billion worldwide. The Way of Water is the biggest movie of 2022, the biggest movie of the pandemic and post-pandemic eras, and only the sixth movie ever to pass $2 billion at the global box office.

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