James Cameron’s Avatar: The Way of Water is a hit $497.1M worldwide through Monday, on track to pass the half-billion mark worldwide when counting Tuesday’s intake.
The 20th Century Studios/Disney sci-fi adventure sequel has already helped push Walt Disney Studios past the $4 billion mark by 2022.
While under projections came in over the weekend, Way of Water is expected to experience a severe leg-out as we enter the holiday season.
Way of Water did it at the international box office $38.8M on Monday, which is 15% of the offshore opening weekend Friday-Saturday-Sunday (including China) and 17% excluding this market. This is essentially on par with relevant comps.
Through yesterday is the Offshore Cume $346.8Mall of which total up to $497.1 million worldwide.
Not included in the above totals, Chinawhich is battling Covid spikes had an estimated $4.4 million for a $66.8 million cume as of Tuesday. Korea‘s Tuesday, also not included above, was good for an estimated $2.4 million and an ongoing balance sheet of about $30 million.
In France Holds are strong as Way of Water has already surpassed the 2 million registration mark, a tidbit hitting national news radio today after the World Cup.
Domestically, the film had the biggest non-holiday Monday and second-biggest Monday of 2022 at $16.2 million, as reported by Anthony. North American sales through Monday are $150.3 million.
Here are the top 10 international markets through Monday: China ($62.1M), Korea ($27.4 million), France ($26M), India ($22M), Germany ($21.3 million), United Kingdom ($16.3 million), Mexico ($15.6M), Australia ($12.5 million), Italy ($11.7M), Brazil ($10 million).