The film will overtake ‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’ within days.
If anybody still needs convincing that Avatar: The Way of Water is an unambiguously successful blockbuster, all they need to know is that it is on the verge of passing $1.9 billion at the global box office, mere hours after it sailed past the $1.8 billion mark. The long-in-the-making science-fiction sequel’s current global haul stands at $1.89 billion, which makes it the highest-grossing movie of 2022 by far.
The film added nearly $90 million from overseas territories in its fifth weekend, pushing its international haul to $1.3 billion. Domestically, The Way of Water will hit the $570 million mark by the end of the extended MLK weekend. And most likely by tomorrow, it will overtake Spider-Man: No Way Home’s $1.91 billion lifetime haul to become the biggest hit of the pandemic era. As if that weren’t enough, The Way of Water will almost certainly become the first film since 2019’s Avengers: Endgame to pass $2 billion at the global box office. Additionally, — and this is incredible — it will become director James Cameron’s third feature film (in a row) to pass $2 billion worldwide, after Titanic ($2.2 billion) and the first Avatar, which remains the biggest movie in history with $2.97 billion.
The Way of Water is currently the seventh-biggest movie of all time, behind No Way Home and Avengers: Infinity War ($2.04 billion). The film will most likely surpass Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ $2.06 billion global haul to settle in the fourth spot on the all-time list, which would mean that three out of the top four movies of all time will have been directed by Cameron.
