The film Avatar, directed by James Cameron and distributed by Walt Disney Co.'s 20th Century Studios, opened to $435 million in theaters worldwide, the second-highest global opening-weekend gross of 2022, trailing only Disney's Marvel Studios' "Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness."
The $134 million in domestic opening-weekend ticket sales was Cameron's best box-office debut, but it fell short of tracking estimates based on advance ticket sales, which predicted the film would earn between $150 million and $175 million in North America.
The film, which was shot in 3-D and shown on more than 1,500 IMAX screens worldwide, earned $57.1 million in China, a disappointing result according to Disney, especially when compared to the first film in the franchise's success in China. Continue Reading...
