Avatar 2
continues to float at the top of the North American box office, according to provisional figures Monday from the specialized firm Exhibitor Relations, despite dark rooms partly deserted because of the violent winter storm which upset the Christmas weekend.
The sequel to the 2009 sci-fi blockbuster grossed $90 million between Friday and Monday, a public holiday in the United States and Canada, for its second week of release.
Including international admissions (about 600 million in revenue), James Cameron's film has earned a total of more than 881 million dollars since its release, according to figures from the box office site mojo.
Again set on the planet Pandora,
Avatar: The Way of the Water
tells a story set more than a decade after the events of the first film.
US Marine Jake Sully, played by Sam Worthington, has transitioned into the body of a Navi, the tall, blue-skinned people of Pandora, and works with them to protect their habitat from a dire threat.
Despite this momentum, industry pundits remain skeptical that the film can outperform 2022's other big hit:
Top Gun - Maverick
.
The new adventures of Tom Cruise had accumulated more than 1.5 billion dollars in revenue, half of which in the North American market alone;
what Cameron's film is still far from realizing.
The other films far behind
Another sequel, the children
's film Puss in Boots 2: The Last Quest
slips into second place on the podium, despite box office receipts falling short of expectations with $17.5 million over four days in its first weekend in theaters. .
In this children's film, Puss in Boots, voiced by actor Antonio Banderas, embarks on an epic adventure to restore his nine lives.
The biopic on singer Whitney Houston
I Wanna Dance With Somebody
lands him in third position with only $ 6.8 million in receipts for its first weekend.
Work of excess, the feature film
Babylon
with Margot Robbie and Brad Pitt collects barely 5.3 million dollars for its start, another performance
“disappointing due to external conditions”
, underlines David Gross of Franchise Entertainment Research.
Six years after the triumph of
La La Land
, the gifted Damien Chazelle offers with this film a vibrant tribute to the Hollywood of the 1920s, at a time when sound was beginning to appear, condemning the silent world to oblivion.
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
, the sequel to the 2018 afro-futuristic Marvel film, tumbled to fifth place with $5.3 million in its seventh week on screens.
Here's the rest of the top 10:
6-
Violent Night
($4.3 million)
7-
The Whale
(1.5 million)
8-
The Menu
(1 million)
9-
The Fabelmans
($900,000)
10-
Avalonia, the strange journey
(675,000 dollars)
