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fans
can catch their breath.
La Voie de l'eau
, the second part of the saga which takes place on Pandora, made a very honorable start for its first weekend of operation.
If James Cameron was worried he wouldn't bring audiences back to theaters, his film raked in $435 million globally when it was released.
According to Variety, in North America alone, the feature film brought in $134 million.
It is the fifth best start of the year according to the publication, and the best of the weekend.
Not in apnea
James Cameron had warned the public that it would be necessary to come to see his film en masse to know the continuation, planned on two next shutters.
Indeed, the filmmaker's projects are expensive.
La Voie de l'eau
cost 350 million dollars to produce, plus a few more millions to promote it.
James Cameron had therefore announced that he needed to repeat his successes of
Avatar
or
Titanic
to complete his saga.
The publication specialized in the cinema wants to be less alarmist than the director.
Variety
recalls that James Cameron's films generally start quietly before becoming a hit over the long term.
Avatar
had thus grossed $77 million in its first weekend of operation, to finish at number one for seven consecutive weeks, bringing in $760 million in North America and $2.92 billion internationally.
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The studios had asked James Cameron to reduce the duration of the first "Avatar"
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