{"id":2207710,"date":"2025-12-21T18:02:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T18:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2207710"},"modified":"2025-12-21T18:02:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T18:02:06","slug":"avatar-fire-and-ash-heats-up-the-box-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/avatar-fire-and-ash-heats-up-the-box-office\/","title":{"rendered":"“Avatar: Fire and Ash” heats up the box office"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Na\u2019vi won the battle of the box office this weekend, as \u201cAvatar: Fire and Ash\u201d hauled in a hefty $88 million in the U.S. and Canada during its opening weekend.<\/p>\n

The third installment of the Disney-owned 20th Century Studios\u2019 \u201cAvatar\u201d franchise brought in an estimated total of $345 million globally, with about $257 million of that coming from international audiences. The movie reportedly has a budget of at least $350 million.<\/p>\n

Box office analysts had expected a big international response to the most recent film, particularly since its predecessor \u201cAvatar: The Way of Water\u201d had strong showings in markets like Germany, France and China.<\/p>\n

In China, the film opened to an estimated $57.6 million, marking the second highest 2025 opening for a U.S. film in the country since Disney\u2019s \u201cZootopia 2\u201d a few weeks ago. (That film went on to gross more than $271.7 million in China<\/a> on its way to a global box office total of $1.1 billion.)<\/p>\n

The strong response in China is another sign that certain movies can still do well in the country<\/a>, which was once seen as a key force multiplier for big blockbusters and animated family films, but has in recent years cooled to American movies due to geopolitics and the rise of its domestic film industry.<\/p>\n

Angel Studio\u2019s animated Biblical tale \u201cDavid\u201d came in second at the box office this weekend, with an estimated domestic gross of $22 million. Lionsgate thriller \u201cThe Housemaid,\u201d Paramount Animation and Nickelodeon Movies\u2019 \u201cThe Spongebob Movie: Search for Squarepants\u201d and \u201cZootopia 2\u201d rounded out the top five.<\/p>\n

The weekend\u2019s haul likely comes as a relief to theater owners, who have weathered a roller coaster year.<\/p>\n

After a difficult first three months, the spring brought hits like \u201cA Minecraft Movie\u201d and \u201cSinners\u201d before the summer ended mostly flat. A sleepy fall brought panic to the exhibition business until closer to the Thanksgiving holiday, when \u201cWicked: For Good\u201d and \u201cZootopia 2\u201d drew in audiences.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.latimes.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Na\u2019vi won the battle of the box office this weekend, as \u201cAvatar: Fire and Ash\u201d hauled in a hefty $88 million in the U.S. and Canada during its opening weekend. The third installment of the Disney-owned 20th Century Studios\u2019 \u201cAvatar\u201d franchise brought in an estimated total of $345 million globally, with about $257 million […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2207711,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2207710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Avatar-Fire-and-Ash-heats-up-the-box-office.com2Fe52F412Fb6c2eb0044be9bba7f3a47b4.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2207710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2207710"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2207710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2207712,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2207710\/revisions\/2207712"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2207711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2207710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2207710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2207710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}