Fire and Ashes’ debuts tepidly at the US box office

‘Avatar: Fire and Ash‘ finally arrived in theaters around the world, but got off to a lukewarm start at the North American box office.

The film grossed $12 million in Thursday previews and $25 million on Friday.

On Saturday, it raised around US$28 milliona drop of 23% compared to Friday (counting preview numbers), which should result in a total debut of US$88 million.

This difference between Saturday’s and Friday’s box office, including previews, is exactly the same as ‘Aquaman‘ in 2018, with a drop of 23%. ‘Avatar: The Path of Water‘ saw a 17% drop on Saturday, totaling $44.3 million on its first day. If this opening continues in the United States, it will be the seventh best opening of December, behind Spider-Man: No Way Home ($260.1 million), Star Wars: The Force Awakens ($247.9 million), Star Wars: The Last Jedi ($220 million), Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker ($177.3 million), Rogue One: A Star Wars Story ($155 million) and Avatar: The Path of Water ($134.1 million).

If you end the weekend with US$88 millionit will be a very big drop compared to the opening of the second film in the franchise, with US$134.1 million.

Em 2009, ‘Avatar‘ debuted with US$77 million and, just like ‘Avatar: The Path of Water‘, ended up raising more than US$2 billion worldwide.

Worldwide,’Avatar: Fire and Ash‘ should raise around US$340-380 million in its first weekend at the worldwide box office.

For comparison, the second film, ‘Avatar: The Path of Water‘, opened with US$444 million in this same period, in 2022.

The expectation is that the new feature film James Cameron supere a live-action of ‘Lilo & Stitch‘ ($341M), and becomes the second biggest global debut of the year – behind only animation ‘Zootopia 2‘ (US$560.3M).

Internationally, production should total around US$250-275 million.

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‘Avatar: Fire and Ashes’ is now showing in theaters.

In the plot, decades after humanity’s first contact with Pandora, a new expedition returns to collect what’s left of the planet’s resources — only to discover that the alien species is preparing to strike back at Earth.

The cast also has Erika Marks, Jordan Iverach, Biagio Castelo e William McNamara.

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