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‘Avatar: Fire And Ash’ Becomes James Cameron’s Fourth Film To Cross $1B WW; Disney Owns Top 3 Global MPA Pics Of 2025 – International Box Office
'Avatar: Fire and Ash' has become the fourth James Cameron movie to earn over $1B.
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‘Avatar: Fire And Ash’ Becomes James Cameron’s Fourth Film To Cross $1B WW; Disney Owns Top 3 Global MPA Pics Of 2025 – International Box Office
20th Century Studios’ Avatar: Fire and Ash has become the fourth James Cameron movie to earn more than $1 billion at the global box office after Avatar, Avatar: Way of Water and Titanic. The global cume is $1.08 billion with $306.0M domestic and $777.1M international. Remember, no other director other than Cameron owns three $2 billion-plus grossing movies in the top 10. Not the Russos, not Christopher Nolan, not even Steven Spielberg. The big question is where will Avatar: Fire and Ash final at. I keep hearing $1.7 billion, but that’s an early non Disney prediction. By that wouldn’t be shabby for a threequel, just behind Avengers: Infinity War‘s $2.05 billion.
Disney’s Avatar: Fire and Ash and Zootopia 2 led the global weekend in No. 1 and 2 spots respectively with $169.6M and $81.7M (-10% in 52 material territories). Global on Z2 is $1.588B and $1.22B from abroad.
Avatar: Fire and Ash also becomes the second highest MPA title from 2025, titles which were all released by the Walt Disney Studios, including Zootopia 2 and Lilo & Stitch.
Domestic is much higher with a $40M third weekend, -37%, and a near $306M running cume.
A lot big milestones with Avatar 3:
- Pic is the third title in the franchise to click past $1B worldwide; the trilogy’s running total now $6.35 billion.
- As the No. 2 MPA title of 2025, Avatar 3 burns past Jurassic World: Rebirth ($869M), The Minecraft Movie ($958M) and Lilo & Stitch ($1,038M).
- Avatar: Fire and Ash stands as No. 2 MPA international release of 2025, with a gross bigger than Lilo & Stitch ($614M). The Walt Disney Studio owns the top 3 MPA titles at the 2025 B.O. which is comprised of Zootopia 2, Avatar: Fire and Ash and Lilo & Stitch.
- Avatar 3’s international weekend of $129.6M in 51 material markets saw a -29% ease with one big market surge from last weekend – Japan, +26%. Other territories held strong with Australia (-14%), Brazil (-19%), France (-23%), UK (-26%), Mexico (-27%), Germany (-27%), China (-32%), Korea (-38%) and Italy (-41%).
- In China, Avatar 3 is the No. 2 MPA release of 2025 with $138M, behind Zootopia 2‘s $601.4M.
- Imax global weekend for the Cameron directed pic was $22.5M with a running cume for the large format exhibitor of $140M, one of the corp’s top ten grossing releases of all-time.
In China, the sequel is the No. 2 MPA release of all-time with $604.1M (LC4, 246M) narrowly behind Avengers: Endgame (LC4 250M, $631M), which the sequel will pass on Monday in local currency. Count it up: Disney has three of the top 5 grossing MPA titles in the Middle Kingdom.
With $1.22B, Zootopia 2 is the highest grossing MPA animated release ever at the Int’l B.O., now No. 6 among all MPA titles at the foreign B.O., get this, beating 2015’s Star Wars: Force Awakens ($1.135B) and Furious 7 ($1.162B). Disney owns four of the top four MPA animated international releases.
Zootopia 2‘s offshore frame saw three key markets spikes from last weekend; UK (+34%), Australia (+20%) and China (+13%), while other strong key market holds included Japan (-5%), Brazil (-5%), Germany (-9%), Mexico (-14%), France (-16%), Italy (-31%) and Spain (-32%).
Sony’s Anaconda pulled in $13.4M abroad from 8,300 screens in 61 markets. Total Global is $88.4M and offshore cume is $42.5M. I keep getting phone calls that the movie cost much higher than a net $45M production after three weeks of reshoots. In fact, people laugh at me when I run that number. However, as a comedy, let’s give respect for it being this high on a box office basis.
France led all new markets with $1.1 million, 57% bigger than Anyone But You. In holdover markets, Australia pulled in $1.9 million to lift its cume to $5.8 million, while the UK grossed $1.4 million to bring its total to $5.3 million. Mexico added $1.1 million for a running lifetime of $4.0 million. Notable holds include: Ecuador (+8%), Austria (+3%), Portugal (+2%), Netherlands (-8%), Peru (-11%), Colombia (-14%), UK (-20%), Germany (-20%), Belgium (-21%), Denmark (-26%), and New Zealand (-26%). Upcoming major market releases: Italy, China, Japan, and South Korea.
Lionsgate’s The Housemaid opened No. 2 behind Avatar 3 in Spain, Brazil and Portugal. The pic is already released in UK, France, Australia, Netherlands and Denmark. Hidden Pictures produced and Paul Feig directed thriller has a global cume of $133M which is well ahead of the final take of the filmmaker’s A Simple Favor, also from Lionsgate ($97.7M final B.O., unadjusted for currency swings and inflation). Overseas is $57.3M while, North America posted a great -3% hold in weekend three for a running cume of $75.7M. Lionsgate didn’t report the specific international weekend results.
Also opening overseas this weekend and priming to reap off an anticipated awards halo run is Universal/Focus Features’ Song Sung Blue in Australia, UK & Ireland, Mexico, NZ and France with an overall international of $4.47M (-21% in 40 territories)/$10.3M global weekend. The running cume on the Craig Brewer directed, John Davis $30M production is $30.1M global. In Australia, the Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson movie bowed to $2M at 310 screens, ranking 5th for the weekend, 3rd with sneak previews. enjoyed a great opening, grossing $2.0M across 310 screens. The opening is well above A Complete Unknown. UK & Ireland did $1.3M at 620 screens for a No. 7 rank; $300K from New Year’s Day previews. This result is above The Holdovers. Mexico minted $266K and ranked No. 8 with best performance coming from VIP cinemas in central cities, which repped over a third of admissions. The result is in line with A Complete Unknown. Pic opened to No. 2 in New Zealand with $266K, while France brought in $188K from 273 screens. The movie has already opened in Netherland, German Switzerland, South Africa/other Africas and Austria, the latter posting an +11% surge in weekend 2 for $37K and a running cume of $114K, in line with A Real Pain and just above The Fabelmans at the same point.
Other foreign weekend results:
Wicked: For Good (Uni) 3,648 global screens/1,763 foreign, $6M WW, $2.82M Int’l (-30%), Intl Total $178.5M, WW $518.3M/Wk 7
Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 (Uni) 4,469 global screens/2,843 foreign, $4.95M WW, $2.25M Int’l (-47M), Int’l Total $106.2M, WW $231.4M/Wk 5
By comparison, the global adjusted for inflation and currency swings remains at a final worldwide take of $291.5M.
Also performing big in Italy is the local comedy Buen Camino with a running cume of 48.7M Euros or $57.4M. By comparison, Avatar 3 has made $24.2M in the market to date.
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‘Avatar: Fire And Ash’ Leads Global Weekend With $87M As WW Cume Blazes To $1.23B
Avatar: Fire and Ash is still the rage around the world with a global weekend of $86.9M, $65.6M of that minted in its fourth weekend abroad in 52 material territories taking the 20th Century Studios pic’s foreign haul to $888M and global $1.23 billion. The trilogy’s running cume is $6.5B. That...
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‘Avatar: Fire And Ash’ Leads Global Weekend With $87M As WW Cume Blazes To $1.23B
Avatar: Fire and Ash is still the rage around the world with a global weekend of $86.9M, $65.6M of that minted in its fourth weekend abroad in 52 material territories taking the 20th Century Studios pic’s foreign haul to $888M and global $1.23 billion. The trilogy’s running cume is $6.5B.
That global take is down 52% off the holiday holdover frame last weekend with holds including Brazil (-24%), Australia (-31%), Spain (-41%) and UK (-41%). The pic bowed as the No. 1 MPA title in Hong Kong this weekend with $900K (with previews cume stands at $2.3M). As we told you previously, the James Cameron movie remains 2025’s second best MPA title in China with $149M behind Zootopia 2.
Among highlights, are that stateside ($21M), the threequel is the first domestic release to rank No. 1 for four weekends in a row since 2023’s Barbie.
After China, the next top territories for the Cameron 3D sci-fi epic is France ($91.7M), Germany ($73.7M), Korea ($48.5M), UK ($48M) and Mexico ($36.5M).
Of the global take for the threequel, Disney can thank Imax for $12.2M this past weekend ($7M foreign, $1.7M China, and $3.5M domestic). The large format exhibitor’s running total on the threequel stands at $159M ($48.5M domestic), the big picture corp’s seventh highest grossing title ever. Overall, Imax theaters rep 13% of the pic’s worldwide take.
Zootopia 2 in full release in all markets raked in $40.9M global ($30.8M from 52 material territories, $10.1M domestic) for a running total of $1.276B worldwide, with $1.655B from foreign alone. That latter figure makes the sequel the No. 6 MPA international release of all-time, and the No. 1 MPA animated international release of all-time and No. 1 MPA international release of 2025 (as we previously told you).
Overall global weekend seven saw a -52% overall decline, with holds in key markets including Brazil (+9%), Australia (-2%), Japan (-41%), Mexico (-41%), and UK (-45%). The sequel remains the No. 1 pic in Japan and China for the weekend and No. 2 in Germany, Austria, Sweden, Switzerland, Czechia, Georgia, Qatar, Slovakia, South Africa, Uzbekistan, Australia, Korea (non-local), Singapore, Taiwan (non-local), Thailand, Hong Kong (non-local), Indonesia, Vietnam, and across all of Latin America (except Brazil and Mexico).
China counts $611M in cume, followed by Japan $76.7M, France at $69.4M, Korea at $54.6M and Germany at $43.6M.
When it comes to movies funded by foreign sales, collecting exact weekend data takes time, so we’ll have further updates for you later this AM or tomorrow. In the meantime, we know that Lionsgate’s The Housemaid cleaned up another $25.5M from 66 territories this weekend for a running global take of $192.5M ($98.3M foreign). The Housemaid was the No. 1 in UK this weekend where it has taken in an estimated $23.7M to date.
As we told you, Anaconda slither past $100M this past weekend, global is now (updated) $110.1M with 63 international markets grossing $7.7 million from 11,900+ screens for an overseas total of $55.8M through today. Top market cumes: Australia ($8.1 million), UK ($6.4 million), Mexico ($4.7 million), Germany ($3.3 million), Brazil ($3.1 million).
Universal International/Focus Features’ Hamnet was great in the UK with $4.2M ($4.8M global weekend), making it the highest opening weekend for this year’s awards contenders above One Battle After Another, Sinners and more than double Marty Supreme. The film has also topped the openings of A Complete Unknown, Little Women, The Favourite, Belfast, Poor Things and more than double Conclave. That’s also the highest post Covid opening for a January release in the awards corridor in the UK, the 5th biggest January opening for a drama in the last decade, and second biggest drama opening since the start of 2025 behind only Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale. The Chloe Zhao movie is also Jessie Buckley’s highest opening weekend in a leading role while Chloe Zhao and Paul Mescal will see Hamnet as their second highest respective openings behind Eternals ($7.3M unadjusted for inflation and currency swings) and Gladiator II ($11.4M).
Song Sung Blue brought in $2.8M abroad in 52 territories, led by openings in Spain, Italy and Germany for a global weekend of $5.8M. Global stands at $40.7M for the Universal International/Focus Features Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson musical, $9.5M of that from offshore.
Germany counted $396K at 371 screens for a No. 10 debut, which included $163K previews. Business was impacted by winter storm “Elli”, which prompted official warnings to “stay home” with school closures and event cancellations. Spain grossed $98K at 196 screens, a No. 12 opening. Italy was $82K at 192 for a No. 12 opening in a soft market which was overall -34% from last weekend, we’re told. Australia posted $1.2M, for a solid -26% dip in weekend 2 ranking No. 5. The pic’s $3.9M cume is above that of A Complete Unknown at the same point. The second weekend for the Craig Brewer directed movie in the UK & Ireland saw $600K for a No. 8 rank and running cume of $2.5M, above The Holdovers, Manchester By The Sea and The Iron Claw at the same point.
Paramount’s Primate was limited in its overseas launch with only $2.1M this weekend, $925K of that from Mexico putting its global debut frame at $13.4M. Mexico booked the Johannes Roberts movie at 865 locations. Peru made $220K at 48 sites, Colombia $110K at 195, Argentina $106K at 160 sites, Israel $104K at 30, Central America was $80K from 22 theaters, Chile was $70K at 75 locations, while Hungary was $52K at 45 locations. All those figures included previews. The chimp crawls into France on Jan. 21, Australia on Jan. 22; Germany, Italy, Brazil and Korea on Jan. 29; UK on Jan. 30 and Spain on Feb. 6.
If Paramount had released the first film of their Avatar animated series in theaters, it would have earned 3-4 times its budget and won the box office race, given its low budget. But these idiots didn't do that, and instead of understanding that they 'own' the list of the worst films of 2026 among the big Hollywood companies, they made this decision relying on that list. They'll go bankrupt even worse in a few years. Warner Bros. is being smart by selling Netflix because Paramount is going to go bankrupt badly under Skydance.
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