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Movie history will be made this weekend as Avatar: The Way of Water does what most said was impossible - the sequel will hit $2 billion at the box office, likely sometime on Friday or Saturday.
Earlier this week the Avatar sequel replaced Marvel Studio’s Spider-Man: No Way Home as the 6th highest grossing movie of all time. The MCU sequel took a massive $1.9 billion worldwide to become the studio’s fourth title in the top 10 all-time list.
Avatar: The Way of Water is already only the second franchise to have multiple films in the top 10, and once it inevitably replaces Avengers: Infinity War for the #5 spot on the chart, the Avatar franchise will be the only film series with two entries in the top 5 biggest grossers.
James Cameron is currently the only filmmaker with three movies in the top 10, and one of only two sets of filmmakers - the others being the Russo Brothers with Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame - who have multiple movies in the top 10 at all. Besides Avatar and Avatar: The Way of Water, Cameron of course also directed Titanic. He will be the only director with multiple films in the top 5 once his newest movie outgrosses Infinity Wars (which currently makes the Russos the only filmmakers with multiple films in the top 5).
Movie history will be made this weekend as Avatar: The Way of Water does what most said was impossible - the sequel will hit $2 billion at the box office, likely sometime on Friday or Saturday.
Earlier this week the Avatar sequel replaced Marvel Studio’s Spider-Man: No Way Home as the 6th highest grossing movie of all time. The MCU sequel took a massive $1.9 billion worldwide to become the studio’s fourth title in the top 10 all-time list.
Avatar: The Way of Water is already only the second franchise to have multiple films in the top 10, and once it inevitably replaces Avengers: Infinity War for the #5 spot on the chart, the Avatar franchise will be the only film series with two entries in the top 5 biggest grossers.
James Cameron is currently the only filmmaker with three movies in the top 10, and one of only two sets of filmmakers - the others being the Russo Brothers with Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame - who have multiple movies in the top 10 at all. Besides Avatar and Avatar: The Way of Water, Cameron of course also directed Titanic. He will be the only director with multiple films in the top 5 once his newest movie outgrosses Infinity Wars (which currently makes the Russos the only filmmakers with multiple films in the top 5).
