James Cameron can breathe a little better now. ‘Avatar: The Sense of Water’ continues to conquer cinemas around the world. In Spain it has just become, according to Comscore, the highest-grossing film of the year, having reached 21 million euros. Exceeds 20.7 million euros for ‘Minions: The Origin of Gru’, so far the highest-grossing film of 2022 in our country. The sequel to ‘Avatar’ continues to bring audiences back to theaters like they haven’t in a while. For example, on the 28th we reached 600,000 spectators, the best Wednesday since 2019.
Another milestone it has recently achieved is that it has surpassed the billion dollar mark in worldwide funding. Only two other films entered the ‘billion dollar club’ this year: ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ and ‘Jurassic World: Dominion’. But James Cameron’s was the one that surpassed the figure fastest, taking just 14 days. Tom Cruise’s film did it after 31 days in theaters. ‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’ was the previous one that did it fastest and it was after 12 days in theaters.
‘Top Gun’ sequel remains the year’s highest-grossing film globally with $1.48 billion in totalbut given the pace of ‘Avatar: The Sense of Water,’ Cruise better prepare to hand over the crown to the Na’vi in a few weeks.
Just him and the Russo brothers
‘Avatar: The Sense of Water’ is the third James Cameron film to cross the billion mark (along with the first ‘Avatar’ and ‘Titanic’). Only the Russo brothers have the same number of billion-dollar films in their filmography (“Captain America: Civil War” and the last two Avengers installments). ‘Avengers: Endgame’ remains the film to reach this amount of money fastest, as it grossed a billion dollars in just five days.
The $2.75 billion of the original opening of the first ‘Avatar’ is still a long way off, but the film is well on its way to solidifying the franchise in the face of multiple sequels its director has planned. The next one, “Avatar 3,” hits theaters in December 2024.
Source: E Cartelera
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