Avatar: The Way of Water officially reached $1 billion at the global box office in just 14 days, making it the fastest 2022 film to do so.
Avatar: The Way of Water has made $1.025 billion worldwide, with $317.1 million coming from North America and $712.7 million from other countries. It is currently the third highest-grossing film during the COVID-19 pandemic, surpassing Jurassic World Dominion as the year’s second-highest-grosser.
Jurassic World Territory took more than four months to cross the billion imprint, and the other $1 billion film industry film in 2022 that Avatar: The Way of Water sits behind – Top Gun: Maverick achieving the milestone took 31 days. One more way to compare Spider-Man: No Way Home earn $1 billion in just 12 days.
Avatar: The Way of Water debuted on December 16, 2022, and in its first weekend, it earned $435 million worldwide and $134 million in North America.
According to James Cameron, the movie Avatar: The Way of Water needs to be the third or fourth highest-grossing film ever to make money, which means that it will need to gross more than $2 billion worldwide. The sequel to Avatar, which came out in 2009, cost about $350 million, and marketing costs have been more than $100 million.
The original Avatar took 17 days to earn $1 billion at the global box office, and it continued to earn a lot more to become the highest-grossing film of all time, earning $2.97 billion.