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Weekend Box Office: Avatar: Fire and Ash Reaches Top 30 All Time
For the time being, a killer monkey movie owns the best new opening of 2026. That should last all of one week, but headlines are scarce. Unless you consider Avatar leading for a fourth weekend, two films in the top 10 making a run towards $400 million, and another two headed for just $100 million. In a way, that last headline is the most significant one, given that the very significant nine-digit achievement of those two films is a notable one for audiences and theaters for the first time since before the pandemic.
We arrive at weekend four of James Cameron’s Avatar: Fire and Ash coming in at No. 1, bringing its 24-day total to $342.5 million, or 41st all time behind Toy Story 4 ($346.5 million) and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 ($343.0 million), and ahead of Toy Story 3 ($339.2 million) and Shrek 2 ($337.4 million). Harry Potter is the only film in the top 43 on this list to not reach $400 million domestic. The $21.3 million Fire and Ash made in its fourth weekend ranks 42nd on the 24-day chart and offers far less of a guarantee of reaching $400 million. However, among the 43 films referenced, 19 had a lower fourth go than Fire and Ash and still reached the milestone. On the other hand, it is $37 million off the pace of 2025’s champion, A Minecraft Movie, which had a $22.7 million fourth weekend. Such a path could translate to the $380-390 million area, or nearly $300 million less than The Way of Water. No worries, though, as it is over $1.23 billion globally, among the top 30 films of all time.
Box Office: ‘Avatar: Fire and Ash’ Leads for Fourth Weekend With $21 Million as ‘Primate’ Debuts to $11 Million
James Cameron is almost singlehandedly keeping cinemas afloat in the new year as “Avatar: Fire and Ash” leads the box office for the fourth consecutive weekend. His third Na’vi adventure generated $21.3 million from 3,700 theaters between Friday and Sunday, bringing its total to $342.6 million domestically and $1.23 billion globally.
Those ticket sales were twice as much as the next biggest films, including newcomer “Primate” and holiday holdover “The Housemaid.” Those two films are neck-in-neck for second place, with each estimated to generate $11 million over the weekend. (Final tallies will be reported on Monday.)
“Primate” appears to have the slight edge over the competition with $11.3 million from 2,964 venues in its opening weekend. “Primate” also earned $2.1 million internationally for a global start of $13.4 million. Moviegoers appear mixed on the $21 million-budgeted film, which received a “B-” grade on CinemaScore exit polls. “Primate” follows a friend group whose tropical vacation goes awry when a nearby chimpanzee becomes violent. Paramount is distributing the film, the first under the studio’s production deal with 18Hz, run by former DC Films chief Walter Hamada.
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The most successful director in the history of movies has done it again. In its third weekend in theaters, Avatar: Fire and Ash’s box-office take rose to $1.08 billion, making James Cameron the first director with four movies to earn $1 billion or more. That’s not just four total but four in a row, beginning with 1997’s Titanic, which means there are now people in their 30s who weren’t born the last time one of Cameron’s movies failed to make 10 figures.
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