Avatar: The Way of Water Box Office Continues To Hold Top Spot In Its Fourth Week

James Cameron’s highly anticipated hit box office sequel, Avatar: The Way of Water, added more domestic screens in theaters upon its fourth weekend of showing thanks to passing its $1 billion mark on the worldwide box office. In fact, if this keeps up, Avatar 2 is set to surpass Top Gun: Maverick with $1.489 billion as it heads towards the road to becoming 2022’s highest grossing film. Despite the film’s debut being below its initial projections, Avatar: The Way of Water continues to hold its top spot at the box office in its fourth week!

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According to Variety, the Avatar sequel accumulated $45 million from its 4,340 theaters in its fourth week, topping the domestic box office yet again. As of writing, Avatar: The Way of Water has now earned $1.708 billion globally, making it the seventh highest-grossing film of all time, surpassing not only Top Gun: Maverick (2022), but Jurassic World (2015) and The Lion King (2019), as well.

Thanks to this encouraging news, James Cameron recently admitted in an interview on Who’s Talking to Chris Wallace? (via Variety) that he has “no choice” but to “do the other sequels”:

“It looks like with the momentum that the film has now, that we’ll easily pass our ‘break even’ in the next few days, so it looks like I can’t wiggle out of this and I’m gonna have to do the other sequels.” Cameron continued on to say, “I know what I’m going to be doing the next six or seven years.”

Given that Cameron had already worked on his Avatar franchise scripts all the way to Avatar 5, it can be surmised that he already has the sequels lined up, especially with the commitment of his cast members. Recently, the Avatar creator even revealed that Avatar 3, which is expected to debut on December 20, 2024, will not only introduce more Pandora regions but even feature fire-wielding Na’vis, the “darker” side of them.

For now, Avatar: The Way of Water is still showing in theaters worldwide.

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