Avatar: The Way Of Water hits $17 million at the box office as of Tuesday

20th Century Studios/Disneys Avatar: The Way of WaterTuesday’s box office is looking at $17 million and could potentially tumble Minions: Rise of Gru’s first Tuesday worth $17.5 million, becoming the best Tuesday of 2022.

Some competing studios seem higher, but we’ll see how it fares tomorrow morning. On his fifth day the ongoing domestic box office of the James Cameron-directed sequel will climb to $167.3 million.

i hear avatar 2 has about $8 million in presale prices for the upcoming weekend, which according to distribution sources is strong for a weekend 2 of a movie. Imax accounted for 14% avatar 2‘s $16 million at the Monday box office, up from its index of 12.3% over the weekend.

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story seems before the current comp avatar 2. This Lucasfilm title earned $17.5 million on its opening Tuesday avatar 2 the best could. Villain One also saw a second 4-day weekend worth $96.1 million, marking the last time Christmas fell on a Sunday, as it did this year. It’s a number avatar 2 may possibly reach next weekend in Friday-Monday period.

The first avatar also saw that its second weekend was in the Christmas season, except that the holiday fell on a Friday (which is better than the holiday falling on a Saturday or Sunday). The film was down just 1.8% on Weekend 2 in 2009 at $75.6 million compared to its opening day of $77 million. Brilliant.

worldwide, avatar 2 will cross the half billion mark today. The sequel helped Disney surpass $4 billion for global box office that year. the most recent for each studio.

You can read the rest of our Christmas box coverage here; The only other new major release that could top $100 million this season is from Universal/Dreamworks Animation Puss in Boots: The Last Wish which opens tomorrow, with no previews tonight. Directed by Joel Crawford and Januel Mercado, this sequel has a 4-day run of between $15 million and $20 million.