“Avatar: The Sense of Water” improves the premiere of the first “Avatar” in Spain by 25%

Thirteen years later, cinemas welcome with open arms the first of the sequels to ‘Avatar’ James Cameron intends to expand the universe of the highest-grossing film in history. It is the most important film event of the year, with a record number of copies exhibited by the theaters of our country and a crazy number of scheduled sessions, many of them in premium formats thanks to 3D.

To no one’s surprise, “Avatar: The Sense of Water” became number 1 at the box office in our country on Friday. It does, according to reports comscorewith 25% more admissions than the first day of “Avatar” in theaters in 2009. More than 285,000 people returned to Pandora on its first day, earning a box office estimate of €2.2 million. This is great news for cinemas, as it’s the best Friday of the year, but bad news for the competition, as it accounts for 90% of ticket sales. Something logical because there are cinemas that only show Cameron’s film.

The goal of the sequel, now distributed by Disney, it would exceed the more than 7 million that ‘Avatar’ made in its first weekend. It should be borne in mind that the former has become a phenomenon thanks to word of mouth, increasing its collection week by week and holding out in theaters much longer than we are used to now. It continues to be the highest-grossing film in the history of our country with 75 million euros.

In the United States it aims for 150 million dollars in its first weekend

It also got off to a strong start in the United States with $55 million in revenue between Friday and Thursday previews. The prediction is that it will reach 150 million dollars in its first weekend, a fantastic figure but not worthy of making history, which is what is expected at this point for the sequel to ‘Avatar’. Of course, moviegoers gave it an outstanding mark in Cinemascore polls after it dropped, which would indicate it’s going to have some good growth over the next few days.

In the rest of the world it had reached 50.4 million dollars between Wednesday and Thursday, not counting China. In the Asian country, one of the key countries for how well the former worked, it would have obtained over 23 million dollars between Wednesday and Friday. We’ll have the first estimates of the weekend on Sunday to see if it’s on track for a record or if it simply reaches what we can understand as a post-pandemic box office.