Earlier this week, James Cameron’s Avatar: The Way of Water became the #5 highest-grossing film of all time worldwide and has now, as expected, surfed to #4 on the all-time chart. That leaves Star Wars: The Force Awakens behind at nearly $2.075 billion worldwide.
The global sequel to the epic Avatar sequel from 20th Century Studios/Disney/Lightstorm runs through Friday $2,074.8 millionsurpassing Force Awakens’ $2.071 billion. That means Cameron has three of the top four films of all time worldwide, alongside the original Avatar at #1 and Titanic at #3. Avatar: The Way of Water will be topping Titanic worldwide for the coming week or so. However, Paramount is planning a domestic Titanic re-release in time for Valentine’s Day, and Disney is also wrapping up offshore before Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania kick off.
For Disney, recent Avatar milestones mean the studio has released three of the top five global titles of all time (including Avengers: Endgame at #2, while Fox released the first Avatar back before it was under the Disney umbrella). .
At the international box office, Way of Water, nominated for an Oscar for best picture, is still the No. 4 all-time film $1,466.3 million see you on Friday. Domestically, it ranks No. 13 at $608.5 million.
As of Friday, the top foreign markets of the sci-fi adventure are: China ($235.4 million), France ($133.2 million), Germany ($120.2 million), Korea ($101.5 million) USD), UK (USD 83.5m), India (USD 58.3m), Australia (USD 57.5m), Mexico (USD 52.3m), Spain (USD 48.1m USD) and Italy (USD 45.8 million).