Avatar: The Way of Water continues its climb to the top of the all-time charts, becoming the sixth film to break $2 billion in worldwide box office.
According to Deadline, the Avatar sequel, directed by James Cameron, grossed $2.024 billion as of Sunday, meaning it now sits ahead of Spider-Man: No Way Home and Jurassic World on the list of highest-grossing films. Deadline predicts it will overtake the next two films, Avengers: Infinity War and Star Wars: The Force Awakens, to reach No. 4 later this week.
This means that Cameron will have directed three of the top four films of all time, with the first Avatar film at #1 at $2.9 billion and Titanic at #3 at $2.2 billion. Only Avengers: Endgame, at #2 with $2.8 billion, breaks the sequence.
Avatar: The Way of Water’s results were greatly aided by its dominance outside the US box office. Deadline reports that it has become the #1 film of all time in Austria, Lebanon, Slovakia, Mongolia and Colombia, among others, and the biggest Hollywood film in India (where it grossed $57.9 million). of all time has become. Its strongest territory outside of the US is China, where it was the No. 1 film for five weeks and grossed $229.7 million. However, the Lunar New Year holiday saw a slew of commercial releases, with The Wandering Earth II replacing it at the top of the charts.
Analysis by Screen Rant’s Stephen M. Colbert suggests the film will eventually gross at least $2.5 billion, overtaking Titanic for third place.