'Avatar: Fire And Ash' Dominates Weekend Box Office

TV & Film

Dec 30

Avatar: Fire and Ash is making Disney and James Cameron’s Christmas season a little brighter. The film clocked $88 million over the four-day weekend, reaching a global total of $760.4 million. With many children off school and adults off-work this week, those numbers are likely to keep climbing, though they’re still trailing behind the film’s predecessor, The Way of Water. Another Disney film, Zootopia 2, was the gift that kept on giving. It reached the $1.420 billion mark after five weeks in the theater. It wasn’t all fair-weather ratings for Disney, though. Ella McCay was a box office flop.

Theaters still haven’t fully recovered from the effects of the pandemic, as closures and safety measures delayed projects. The focus on streaming has contributed to the lack of theater goers as well. In fact, only two movies of this year- Disney’s Lilo & Stitch and Zootopia 2- have crossed the $1 billion threshold. Fire and Ash’s box office lead over the weekend was followed by Marty Supreme, a 1950’s period tennis feature starring Timothee Chalamet, at $27.1 million. Other films making the top five over the holiday weekend were Anaconda and The Housemaid. The faith-based David earned sixth place, followed by The SpongeBob Movie: Search for Squarepants.

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