Avatar: The Way Of Water Worldwide Box Office collection : Enjoys Second Biggest Opening Weekend Amongst Hollywood Releases, Is Next Only To Avengers: Endgame
It’s turning out to be one huge show for Avatar: The Way of Water. The film is creating havoc at the Indian box office
Avatar: The Way of Water – Wikipedia
| Directed by | James Cameron |
|---|---|
| Screenplay by | James Cameron Rick Jaffa Amanda Silver |
| Story by | James CameronRick JaffaAmanda SilverJosh FriedmanShane Salerno |
| Based on | Characters by James Cameron |
| Produced by | James CameronJon Landau |
| Starring | Sam Worthington Zoe Saldaña Sigourney Weaver Stephen Lang Kate Winslet |
| Cinematography | Russell Carpenter |
| Edited by | Stephen E. Rivkin David Brenner John Refoua James Cameron |
| Music by | Simon Franglen |
| Production companies | Lightstorm Entertainment TSG Entertainment |
| Distributed by | 20th Century Studios |
| Release dates | December 6, 2022 (London)December 16, 2022 (United States) |
| Running time | 192 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $350–460 million |
| Box office | $441.7 million |
It’s turning out to be one huge show for Avatar: The Way of Water. The film is creating havoc at the Indian box office with massive all around response across the country. After taking a huge opening of 41 crores on Friday, it went on to have fantabulous collections on Saturday and Sunday as well, hence resulting in a massive haul of 129 crores.
So far, in the history of Hollywood releases in India, there is only one movie which has scored a century in its opening weekend itself – Avengers: Endgame. That record of 157.20 crores stays and would need something really special to be broken. However, there was a huge distance between that film and its prequel Avengers: Infinity War [94.30 crores] which has been bridged by Avatar: The Way of Water. The good part is that its collections are closer to Avengers: End Game than Avengers: Infinity War, which means biggies are getting closer to the top.
Here is a look at the Top-10 biggest weekend/first three day collections of Hollywood biggies in India:
Avengers: End Game – 157.20 crores
Avatar: The Way of Water – 129 crores
Avengers: Infinity War – 94.30 crores
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness – 79.50 crores
Spider-Man: No Way Home – 79.14 crores
The Lion King – 54.75 crores
Fast and the Furious 7 – 50.11 crores
Thor: Love and Thunder – 46.40 crores
Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw – 42.90 crores
Captain Marvel – 40.71 crores
As can be seen, while Hollywood is definitely making inroads, there is still a lot that yet needs to be done. Reason being that there are more Hindi films that have scored a century in their first weekend/first three days when compared to Hollywood. While there are 14 Hindi releases that have done that (right from KGF – Chapter 2 [Hindi] to War), from Hollywood there are only two so far.
Avatar: The Way of Water, distributed by 20th Century Studios is owned by Disney. As this film will get exclusively streamed on Disney+ and Hulu, you might not soon find this James Cameron directorial available on Netflix. However, this streaming giant has a tremendous catalog of films and TV series.
Next month, Disney’s 20th Century Studios is releasing “Avatar: The Way Of Water” in cinemas around the world. This is the sequel to the biggest box office hit, “Avatar”, which was originally released back in 2009.
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