Neu ‘Avatar’ Flick Tops $1 Billion In Just 14 Days – Faster Than Any Other Film This Year

Audiences are quickly proving that they have been waiting for director James Cameron’s newest sequel, “Avatar: The Way of Water” — driving the franchise’s second installment to $1 billion at the global box office in just 14 days.

According to a report published Tuesday by the entertainment website Variety, Cameron’s lengthy epic managed the feat in less time than any other movie in 2022 — and was one of only three released this year to reach the milestone at all. The other two were also sequels — “Top Gun: Maverick,” This was achieved in just one month. “Jurassic World Dominion,” This took four full months.

Variety’s report also noted that “Spider Man: No Way Home” (2021) was the most recent movie to deliver a $1 billion box office take within two weeks — and only six movies Within two weeks of their initial release, they have surpassed $1 billion.

“Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom” (14 days)“Jurassic World” (13 days)“Star Wars: The Force Awakens” (12 days)“Spider Man: No Way Home” (12 days)“Avengers: Infinity War” (11 days)“Avengers: Endgame” (5 days)

Cameron said that $1 billion is just half the battle. He has told reporters that because of the film’s massive operating budget — and millions in additional promotional material — the movie would have to top $2 billion in order for him to break even on the project. However, despite Cameron’s assertion, Variety According to reports, “analysts believe the threshold to profitability is probably closer to $1.5 billion.”

Cameron has also already invested time and money in two additional installments to the “Avatar” franchise — he reportedly already filmed The third movie as well as parts The fourth was chosen to keep continuity and to avoid his actors getting old before the projects are over.

The first “Avatar” Film still holds the record for the highest-grossing movie in cinema history with a gross of $2.97 Billion in 2009.

Cameron made headlines earlier this week when he disclosed that he had at least cut a dozen times during a press tour to promote the sequel. ten minutes The three-hour epic of gun play over concerns that he might “fetishize” firearms.

“I actually cut about 10 minutes of the movie targeting gunplay action. I wanted to get rid of some of the ugliness, to find a balance between light and dark. You have to have conflict, of course. Violence and action are the same thing, depending on how you look at it. This is the dilemma of every action filmmaker, and I’m known as an action filmmaker,” Cameron said, adding that he might do other films — such as “Terminator” And “True Lies” — differently in order to avoid making firearms appear glamorous.

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