James Cameron’s ‘Avatar: The Way of Water’ has already collected Rs7000 crore worldwide within 10 days of its release.
The sci-fi spectacular movie dropped -58 percent in its sophomore frame to $56.0 million, more than doubling the cumulative debuts of the three new titles to hit theaters this Christmas weekend, all of which fell below expectations.
After earning the #37 opening weekend of all time ($134.1M), on the lower end of pre-release projections, it now earns the #49 second weekend of all time, a slight drop on that ranking.
Its “mid-50s” weekend also falls slightly steeper than projections, which were generally in the mid-$50M to low-$60M range.
The first Avatar was a pioneering 3D sci-fi spectacular that Cameron delivered in 2009 and was a huge hit now after 13 years of unimaginably expensive pixel-crunching, the aquatic follow-up has hit the screens.
The movie features a number of A-list actors, including Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Kate Winslet, Stephen Lang, Sigourney Weaver, and Cliff Curtis.
Read more: Critics call ‘Avatar: The Way of Water’ a true theatrical experience
According to critics, Cameron’s undersea world is like a trillion-dollar screensaver. The effects now, technically impressive as they are, amount to high frame-rate motion smoothness.
‘Avatar: The Way of Water’ is an out-of-body theatrical experience that makes its predecessor feel like a glorified proof-of-concept,
“Avatar: The Way of Water” is such a staggering improvement over the original because its spectacle does not have to compensate for its story; in vintage Cameron fashion, the movie’s spectacle is what allows its story to be told so well.
