Avatar 2 Beats Avengers End Game

Master Director James Cameron is someone who can not be underestimated even at the age of 70 and takes more than a decade to make a film. His Avatar The Way Of Water which was released  released after 13 years as a sequel to All-time Blockbuster Avatar. The film which was released on 16th December, 2022 opened to mixed reviews stating that except the visual splendor the film is not upto the mark in remaining aspects. But, Cameron is not someone who can be ruled out that early. He said the family drama behind all the visual spectacle will surely draw the audience to theatres in his interviews. And he is damn right like everytime. 

Avatar 2 which was opened with Rs 40.50 crore on its first day making Avatar 2 the second-highest box office opener in the Indian market. The first one was the 2019 film Avengers: Endgame which earned Rs 53.10 crore on its opening day. By the end of 29 days Avatar The Way Of Water stands as highest grossing Hollywood film in India with Rs 380 Crores surpassing Avengers End Game's Rs 356 Crores. The film also raked in Rs 80 Crore only from Telugu states including all languages. Avatar 2 is currently at World's top 10 grosser and inching towards $ 2 Billion mark. Only 5 movie made past that mark and Avatar The Way Of Water will surely enter into Top 5 after its final run.

Top 5 Highest Grossing Hollywood Films

1) Avatar - $ 2.9 Billion 

2) Avengers Endgame - $ 2.8 Billion

3) Titanic - $ 2.2 Billion

4) StarWars: The Force Awakens - $ 2.06 Billion

5) Avengers: Infinity War - $ 2.04 Billion

Avatar 2 is currently stands with $ 1.9 Billion and it has all chances to make it to Top 4 in the list. Then there will be three James Cameron Directed films in top 5 worlds highest grossers. 

It’s been 13 long years since Avatar—or any other film directed by James Cameron—debuted on the big screen. Hollywood has transformed since then: In 2009, Blockbuster hadn’t even declared bankruptcy yet. Since then, Disney has acquired 20th Century Fox, the studio that financed the first Avatar movie; expensive action films without superheroes now rarely get the green light, unless they star Tom Cruise; and streaming has crippled the movie theater business.

Yet Avatar remains the highest-grossing movie in history. When Avengers: Endgame briefly ascended to that top spot in 2020, Cameron launched a re-release of Avatar in China to recapture the title. It worked: The film has now grossed $2.9 billion in total. The director has long planned to make several sequels, but each year, when Disney would announce its upcoming slate, they’d add an addendum that the Avatar followups had been delayed yet again. Fans began to doubt that Avatar 2 would ever come out, let alone Avatar 3, 4, or 5.Now, after years spent filming in New Zealand, the sequel has finally arrived: Avatar: The Way of Water will debut on Dec. 16. Set nearly 15 years after the original film, the movie focuses on erstwhile human soldier Jake Sully (Sam Worthington) who fell in love with the planet of Pandora and the Na’vi warrior Neytiri (Zoe Saldaña) in the first film. Jake left his human body to become a Na’vi himself. The couple now has three children, one of whom is voiced by Sigourney Weaver, who played a human character that died in the first film.

As the title suggests, much of Avatar 2 is set in and around the ocean and introduces a new oceanic tribe of Na’vi called the Metkayina. Avatar 3, which was filmed simultaneously, is set to debut in 2024. The final two installments are scheduled for 2026 and 2028. Here’s why it took so long to make the Avatar sequel and why we’re getting so many followups in the coming years.