Avatar: The Way of Water grossed a whopping US$435 million (around Rs.3,598 billion) at the global box office in its opening weekend. About US$301 million (about Rs.2,490 billion) has been withdrawn from markets outside the US, including India and the all-too-rare China – the latter known for restricting Hollywood theatrical releases in the country since the COVID-19 pandemic. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the figures are slightly short of the projected $450 million (approx. Rs. 3,923 billion), with the second Avatar film underperforming in the US and Canada.
acc Disneyin India, avatar 2 managed to earn Rs. 160 crore during its inaugural weekend and cruises the lifetime collection for Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, which ended at Rs. 126.94 million. For a movie that allegedly The production cost about 400 million US dollars (approx 20th century studios.
However, the real test for Avatar: The Way of Water is yet to come, depending on how many seats she can fill in the coming weeks and months. The original 2009 avatar only managed to make $242 million worldwide in its opening weekend (approx. Not to mention that the holiday season has led to a lack of competition Hollywood Front that could work in favor of Directed by James Cameron Consequence.
That said, there are two major hurdles Avatar: The Way of Water will be faced. First up is the challenge of breaking even, which is something Cameron called the “worst business case in film history”. For Avatar 2 to be profitable, he said, “You have to be the third or fourth highest-grossing film in history. This is your threshold. That’s your breakeven point.” Disney has never commented on the exact numbers, but reports suggest the budget is around $400 million.
Then there are the heavy running time of 3 hours and 12 minutes, marking Cameron’s second longest film since 1997 titanic. In conversation with total movie, Cameron claimed that the sequel focuses more on her characters and relationships than the 2009 film, leading to said length. He also requested that audiences should not complain about film lengths because of television, saying“I don’t want someone whining over the length of sitting around and watching for eight hours.”
Avatar: The Way of Water is set 15 years after the events of the first film and stars Jake Sully (Sam Worthington) and Neytiri (Zoe Saldana) as parents of five children surviving in the lush forests of the exotic moon Pandora. But when the Sky People, led by a resurrected Recombinant Colonel Miles Quaritch (Stephen Lang) back, the family flees to the coastal region and meets up with the Metkayina clan, who teaches them the ways of the water and helps them prepare for battle.
Avatar: The Way of Water is now showing in Indian cinemas in English, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil and Telugu.
