Avatar 2: Entered the Top 10 Highest-grossing Films in History – How Much Has It Made So Far?
It also broke the record held by Top Gun: Maverick for 2022
It took a few 24 hours to reach it but finally Avatar: The Way of Water achieved its biggest box office milestone yet. James Cameron’s epic blockbuster has surpassed $1.5 billion in grosses at the global box office (specifically, it stands at $1.516+ billion).
It has already surpassed Top Gun: Maverick as the most commercially successful film of 2022, a record held tightly by the sequel starring Tom Cruise. Disney’s mammoth film continues its advance in theaters as more and more people keep watching it, to the point that no one can predict how much longer it will be in theaters.
The third record that Avatar 2 broke – in one fell swoop – is that it entered the Top 10 of the most commercially successful films of all time. What does this mean; That he secured the big goal that Disney and James Cameron had set for the film to become profitable and now it has reached that point.
With the momentum it has, according to Deadline, it is expected to surpass Marvel Studios’ “The Avengers” and step into the No. 9 box office position of all time.
We know that plans for sequels include Avatar 3, 4 and 5, but James Cameron’s grand plan for the world of Pandora has ambitions to extend beyond Chapter 5. In a recent interview he had mentioned his plan for Avatar 6 and 7 .
At one point Avatar: The Way of Water was such a big movie that parts of it were cut to form Avatar 3, the film’s writers have revealed . Amidst the frenzy over James Cameron’s sequel, one cast member didn’t even know the film was out, as she had shot her scenes 4 years ago, so she forgot it existed. We also learned the outrageous length of the first cut of Avatar 3 , which Cameron recently delivered.
Committed to the Avatar franchise is James Cameron, as he recently delivered the script for Avatar 4 , for which Disney executives were stunned by the outcome. It also became known that in Avatar 5 there will be a complete change of setting since the story will be transferred from Pandora to Earth .
Avatar: The Way of Water – Basic Info
The production cost of Avatar 2 is staggering as it reached $460 million dollars – before promotion and marketing costs – making it the most expensive film of all time .
The synopsis of Avatar: The Way of Water is as follows:
Avatar: The Way of Water takes place more than 10 years after the events of the first film and begins to tell the story of the Sully family ( Jake, Neytiri and their children), the suffering that follows them, the extremes they will reach for to stay safe, the battles they will fight to stay alive and the tragedies they will endure.
The sequel stars: Zoe Saldana, Sam Worthington, Sigourney Weaver, Stephen Lang, Cliff Curtis, Joel David Moore, CCH Pounder, Edie Falco, Jemaine Clement, Giovanni Ribisi, and Kate Winslet .
Avatar : The Way of Water is shown in Greek theaters.
