Another Monday, another win for Avatar: The Way of Water.
For the sixth straight weekend, James Cameron’s liquid epic snagged the top spot at the North American box office, pocketing another estimated $20 million in grosses.
Sure, that’s mere pocket change for the flick, given that it’s already stashed away $598.3 million its bulwarks. That’s about $47 million ahead of what the record-breaking original made at this point in its run. (The first Avatar flick went on to earn $749.8 million domestically.) Add in overseas grosses, and The Way of Water has collected nearly $2 billion.
Admittedly, it was a pretty slow weekend at the box office, and plenty of other older films took advantage of that.
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish continues to hold well, moving from third place up to second and scratching up $11.5 million in kitty cash this weekend. That brings the movie’s total domestic gross to about $126.5 million. Who says that family movies don’t make money in a post-COVID environment? Not this feline.
M3GAN swapped places with The Last Wish and fell to third. But the sci-fi horror flick still managed to scare up $9.8 million. It has now earned $73.3 million—which makes it the biggest movie to be released in 2023 thus far. (Both The Way of Water and The Last Wish are 2022 holdovers.)
Missing actually hit, landing $9.3 million and nosing out A Man Called Otto for fourth place. (The latter finished fifth with $9 million.) That makes it the weekend’s biggest new release, though a few other newbies made some cash as well. The unwieldy named anime That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime the Movie: Scarlet Bond finished eighth with $1.5 million, while The Son opened its run with a rather dour $240,000.
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