Avatar 2 continues to hover at the top of the North American box office, according to preliminary figures from specialist company Exhibitor Relations on Monday, despite dark rooms that were partially deserted due to the violent winter storm that devastated the Christmas weekend.
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The highly anticipated sequel to the 2009 sci-fi blockbuster grossed $90 million in its second week of release between Friday and Monday, a public holiday in the United States and Canada.
Including international admissions, James Cameron’s film has grossed more than $881 million since its release, according to box office figures mojo.
Also set on the planet Pandora, Avatar: The Way of the Water tells a story that takes place more than a decade after the events of the first film.
US Marine Jake Sully, played by Sam Worthington, has transformed into the body of a Na’vi, the tall, blue-skinned people of Pandora, and works with them to protect their habitat from a terrible threat.
Another sequel, children’s film Puss in Boots 2: The Final Quest, slipped to second place with $17.5 million over four days for its first indoor weekend despite underperforming box office sales.
In this children’s film, Puss in Boots, voiced by actor Antonio Banderas, embarks on an epic quest to restore his nine lives.
The biopic about singer Whitney Houston, “I Wanna Dance With Somebody,” came in third with just $6.8 million in first-weekend earnings.
Overworked, the feature film Babylon, starring Margot Robbie and Brad Pitt, barely grossed $5.3 million for its release, another showing “disappointing due to circumstances,” points out David Gross of Franchise Entertainment Research.
Six years after the triumph of La La Land, the gifted Damien Chazelle offers this film a vivid homage to 1920s Hollywood, at a time when the sound was emerging and the silent world was doomed to oblivion.
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, the sequel to the Afrofuturistic Marvel film that hit theaters in 2018, plummets to fifth place at $5.3 million in its seventh week.
Here are the rest of the top 10:
6— “Violent Night” ($4.3 million)
7— “The Whale” (1.5 million)
8— “The Menu” (1 million)
9— “The Fabelmans” ($900,000)
10 – “Avalonia, the Strange Voyage” ($675,000)