Avatar: The Way Of Water Scores 2nd Best Wednesday of 2022; Puss in Boots: The Last Wish earned $3.2 million on day one – box office

20th Century Studios/Disneys Avatar: The Way of Water made $14.3 million yesterday in 4,202 theaters, making it the second-best Wednesday of 2022 Top Gun: Maverick$14.8 million on June 1. avatar 2the first Wednesday also surpassed that of Minions: The Rise of Gru ($13.5 million, July 6) and Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’‘s first and second Wednesday ($8.1 million on November 16 and $10 million on November 23).

Imax was 14.6% ahead avatar 2Wednesday or $2.1 million.

What is interesting here is that from Sunday to the middle of the week, avatar 2 play like Rogue One: A Star Wars Story; Yesterday was not that far off the $14.96 million Lucasfilm preview on Wednesday, December 2016. Avatar: The Way of Water At $183 million over six days, the pace is 11% behind Villain One in its domestic current total. avatar 2 hopes to make $90-$95 million on its second four-day weekend when Christmas falls on a Sunday.

Universal also debuted DreamWorks Animations continuation Puss in Boots: The Last Wish to $3.2 million in 4,093 theaters and took second place that day. There were no previews on Tuesday, so consider this pre-Christmas essentially previews.

Directed by Joel Crawford and co-directed by Januel Mercado, the film earned an A CinemaScore, one notch higher than the A- for the first 2011 film, which opened the last weekend of October. It’s usually a dead zone at the box office, but it’s first cat in boots opened to a strong $34 million. While pussy in boots 2 is among the first pre-Christmas Wednesday opening sing 2, which earned $8.1 million in December 2021, before earning $39.6 million over five days in December 2021, we realize that we are still in a corridor where the public’s cinema attendance has been sidelined by holiday activity. All this changes for the better on Christmas Day.

Universal is taking a long-term perspective here pussy in boots 2 The studio drove out sing 2 by the first weekend in April in 2,000 cinemas in the North. Every weekend in March sing 2 raising over $1 million every weekend. Impressive. The final home cost $162.8 million.

Third place on Wednesday was one of them Black Panther: Wakanda Forever of $902,000 for a running total of $421.7 million in 3,200 movie theaters midweek 6.

The fourth was Universal’s violent night in 3,528 theaters with an estimated $839,000 and a running total in the middle of week 3 from $37.6 million.

Fifth saw the widening of A24 The whale from six theaters to 603. The film that marked Brendan Fraser’s career and The Mummy Actor tops the list for Best Actor in Awards Season $682,500 for a running total on the 13th day of $1.28 million.

Babylon begins previews today at 3pm and will hopefully reach tens of millions in three days with 60% fresh Rotten Tomatoes reviews. There is also the TriStar/Black Label Whitney Houston biography I want to dance with someone, which begins previews today at 2 p.m., aiming for $12 million over four days. Critics gave the film a 41% lazy rating.