‘Avatar: The Sense of Water’ surpasses ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ at the global box office and conquers Spain

There were other skeptics. There were occasional film buffs who defended that, in the post-pandemic era, in a world increasingly dominated by streaming, at a time when the industry is surrounded by this overwhelming uncertainty, James Cameron was not going to make it . The director responsible for what is still the highest-grossing film in cinema history, ‘Avatar’who also closes the top 3 with another of his hits, ‘Titanic’; it is accomplishing what was already thought impossible in less than a month.

‘Avatar: The Sense of Water’ was released in theaters virtually worldwide on December 16th. Today, 21 days later, It has already managed to take the position of the top-grossing film of 2022 worldwide, became the tenth highest-grossing film in history and took the second position of the most successful films after the before and after marked by the COVID. Unstoppable. Infallible. According to Deadline, $1.51 billion amasses said blockbuster worldwide, a figure that leaves behind the $1.49 billion that kept ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ at the top last year. If the theatrical retention of “The Sense of Water” equals the tremendous trajectory marked by the film directed by Tom Cruise, the records will mean a trip back in time. Except “Maverick”, There hasn’t been a film with such a long theatrical life since virtually the 1990s and early 2000s, decades when less reliance was placed on the first weekend in theaters..

The most recent issues of ‘The Sense of Water’ have not only caused it to leave ‘Maverick’ behind and slip into the historic Top 10, but also mark the point where the film would start to be profitable. Cameron himself assured that economic success would come when ‘Avatar 2’ reached the 2 billion dollarswhich, of course, would only be a matter of a couple of weeks.

Sweeps in Spain

Disney confirms this ‘Avatar: The Sense of Water’ is already the highest-grossing film of the last 3 years in our country. With box office takings exceeding €29.56 million, this film It ranks at number 12 of the highest grossing historically in Spain and manages to surpass ‘Avengers: Endgame’, which closed its run in Spanish theaters with a total gross of €29.2 million. So meant the new Cameron the best premiere in our country since 2019 with over €7.3 million in openings and a record number of 1,983 screens.