Avatar 2 Makes Over $130M on Opening Weekend

ANAHEIM, CALIFORNIA – SEPTEMBER 10: (L-R) Jamie Flatters, Jack Champion, Trinity Bliss, Bailey Bass, Stephen Lang, Sigourney Weaver, Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, and Jon Landau speak onstage during D23 Expo 2022 at Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, California on September 10, 2022. (Photo by Jesse Grant/Getty Images for Disney)

Many people spent this past weekend at the movies to see Avatar: The Way of Water. The sequel that took 13 years to be released came in below what people thought, making only $134 million dollars in its opening weekend.

I know many of you are saying, “that’s a huge opening,” but keep in mind the movie had a budget of $460 million and a promotional budget of around $100 million.

Even director James Cameron said the film would have to be “the third or fourth highest-grossing film in history to break even.” The film would need to hit numbers like this for several weeks without a drop.

The first Avatar film is the highest-grossing movie in history. What did you think of the new Avatar film? Do you think this film will keep doing numbers like this?