Avatar: The Water Run is the sixth highest grossing film in the history of cinema

It was predictable but now the numbers are becoming reality: Avatar: The Way of Waterthe second film in James Cameron’s ambitious alien-ecologist saga, has exceeded $2 billion grossing in theaters around the world. It is “only” the sixth film to pass this milestone, in a ranking in which it is preceded by Avatars (the original 2009 chapter), Avengers: Endgame, Titanic, Star Wars: The Force Awakens And Avengers: Infinity War. It immediately catches the eye that Cameron is behind the camera of three of these six films, while by chance the actress Zoe Saldana appears in four of them (in fact she plays Neytiri in the film series of Avatars and Gamora in Marvel movies including the two Avengers). After the acquisition of 20th Century Fox, for which the first was originally released Avatarsall these six titles belong to the disney galaxy.

This striking result for The water way it had been foreseen by many but in some ways it was remained very careful in already taking it for granted: the suffering of the public in cinemas in recent years, above all due to the pandemic, made us doubt a return to pre-Covid glories which, at least for this film, there were. Cameron himself had gone with leaden feet: before the release of this second film, in fact, he had declared that for reach the break even and thus become profitable this again Avatars it should have placed in the top three or four most-watched films in history; at this rate such an outcome is not all that improbable and overcoming of Star Wars: The Force Awakens And Avengers: Infinity War it is now taken for granted. We will have to see if, then, Cameron he will outdo himself entering the podium instead of his own Titanic.

Given this success they have already been put in the pipeline the fourth and fifth saga movie, which would have been produced only if this second one had lived up to expectations (the third one, on the other hand, is already practically ready as it was shot at the same time as the previous one). As it reports varietyit is particularly significant that Avatar: The Way of Water is obtaining these sensational performances, when not only the world of cinema after Covid is increasingly impervious but also when the appeal lack of film markets once fundamental: the film, for example, was not released in Russia because of the war (the first chapter had earned 116 million dollars there) and is flopping in Japan (28 million against 176 for the original). In short, the strength of the planet Pandora is conquering the globe and does not seem to want to stop.