The long-awaited sequel Avatar: The Method of Water ought to open to not less than $150 million-$170 million when crusing into North American theaters on Dec. 16, in accordance with early monitoring. And people are conservative estimates.
Directed by James Cameron,The Method of Water hits the massive display extra 13 years after Avatar made historical past in turning into the top-grossing movie of all time on the world field workplace, a crown it nonetheless wears in the present day with greater than $2.92 billion in ticket gross sales, counting re-releases and never adjusted for inflation. That features a home tally of $785.2 million.
Extra bullish observers imagine the Christmas hall tentpole has a shot at turning into solely the fourth December tentpole to cross $200 million in its opening weekend behind final 12 months’s Spider-Man: No Method Residence ($260.1 million), 2015’s Star Wars: The Pressure Awakens ($248 million) and 2017’s Star Wars: The Final Jedi ($220 million). One distinction: these movies have been all fanboy occasions, whereas the primary Avatar was extra of a gradual burn.
Cameron’s groundbreaking movie opened to $77 million over the Dec. 18-20 weekend in 2009, after which loved extraordinary legs.
Different variables: The Method of Water is half-hour longer than Avatar, or three hours and 10 minutes, that means the sequel can have fewer showtimes.
Avatar 2 hopes to affix an elite membership of longer Hollywood tentpoles which have performed blockbuster enterprise in theaters, together with Avengers: Endgame (three hours and a couple of minutes) and Cameron’s Titanic (three hours and 14 minutes). The 2 movies rank No. 2 and No. 3, respectively, on Comscore’s record of the top-grossing movies of all time on the worldwide field workplace behind Avatar, not adjusted for inflation.
Disney inherited the Avatar franchise when shopping for up 21th Century Fox, together with twentieth Century.
Cameron produced the sequel alongside his longtime Lightstorm associate Jon Landau. It stars Zoe Saldaña, Sam Worthington, Sigourney Weaver and Stephen Lang.
In September of this 12 months, Disney and twentieth Century issued a remastered model of the primary Avatar to be able to prime audiences for the sequel. The rerelease grossed a powerful $76 million-plus on the world field workplace, bringing the movie’s present gross to greater than $2.92 billion.
Method of Water as soon as once more facilities on Worthington’s Sully and Saldaña’s Na’vi character, Neytiri. It picks up a decade after the unique and follows their household, with further stars, together with franchise newcomers Vin Diesel and Kate Winslet.
Along with approaching monitoring on Wednesday morning, Disney stated Tuesday evening that The Method of Water has landed a coveted China launch on Dec. 16.
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