![]() ![]() Meaning I made the cardinal error of violating a rule I personally trumpet every time he has a new film: never doubt James Cameron.Īt this rate, it looks like we can start more accurately guesstimating a final global cume in the neighborhood of $2.2 billion, with $2.3 billion probably at the higher end of potential. I myself, even as a more bullish predictor of Avatar 2’s future prospects, thought at first that it might have a higher-end outcome in the $1.8 billion range (although in my defense I always said $2 billion remained possible under the most perfect conditions), until its $1.7+ billion outcome just a weekend ago cemented the fact $2 billion was inevitable. ![]() ![]() MORE FROM FORBES 'Avatar: The Way Of Water' Has Big $435 Million Worldwide Holiday Debut By Mark Hughes Questions immediately arose about whether the sequel could even top $1 billion, or if $1.5 billion might be the topping-out point, and so on. Since that reality-induced drubbing, the doubters have been eagerly sharpening their knives for the sequel films and even retroactively insisting the first film wasn’t really all that after all, because who even remembers it and how much did it even affect our culture? Forget that the answers were “apparently everybody including you” and “plenty if you stop treating cultural impact as something only measurable within white western society (and ignoring all examples within even that society, frankly).”Īfter an opening weekend bow that came in under more lofty expectations, Avatar: The Way of Water was quickly labeled “underperforming” by much of the entertainment press and social media movie punditry. We went through the underestimations and gleeful expectations of Cameron eating crow last time around when 2009’s Avatar left naysayers in its dust with an all-time chart-topping performance to the tune of $2.7+ billion (after multiple rereleases, it now stands just a few million dollars shy of $3 billion). Just like the film itself, the whole media, fan, and cinephile narrative leading up to and right after release for Avatar 2 has been a sequel. ![]()
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