It picks up a decade after the original and follows their family, with additional stars, including franchise newcomers Vin Diesel and Kate Winslet.However, reaction in the UK has been less uncritical. Way of Water once again centers on Worthington’s Sully and Saldaña’s Na’vi character, Neytiri. The rerelease grossed an impressive $76 million-plus at the global box office, bringing the film’s current gross to more than $2.92 billion. In September of this year, Disney and 20th Century issued a remastered version of the first Avatarin order to prime audiences for the sequel. It stars Zoe Saldaña, Sam Worthington, Sigourney Weaver and Stephen Lang.

3, respectively, on Comscore’s list of the top-grossing movies of all time at the worldwide box office behind Avatar, not adjusted for inflation.ĭisney inherited the Avatar franchise when buying up 21th Century Fox, including 20th Century.Ĭameron produced the sequel alongside his longtime Lightstorm partner Jon Landau. Other variables: The Way of Water is 30 minutes longer than Avatar, or three hours and 10 minutes, meaning the sequel will have fewer showtimes.Īvatar 2 hopes to join an elite club of longer Hollywood tentpoles that have done blockbuster business in theaters, including Avengers: Endgame (three hours and 2 minutes) and Cameron’s Titanic (three hours and 14 minutes). 18-20 weekend in 2009, and then enjoyed extraordinary legs. One difference: those films were all fanboy events, whereas the first Avatar was more of a slow burn.Ĭameron’s groundbreaking movie opened to $77 million over the Dec. More bullish observers believe the Christmas corridor tentpole has a shot at becoming only the fourth December tentpole to cross $200 million in its opening weekend behind last year’s Spider-Man: No Way Home ($260.1 million), 2015’s Star Wars: The Force Awakens ($248 million) and 2017’s Star Wars: The Last Jedi ($220 million).

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