"Avatar: The Way of Water" Passes "Jurassic World" as 7th-Highest Grossing Film of All Time with $1.7 Billion

James Cameron’s "Avatar: The Way of Water", the sequel to the worldwide 2009 blockbuster "Avatar", has grossed $1.708 billion globally, overtaking “Jurassic World” ($1.67 billion) as the seventh-highest grossing movie in box office history.

After only four weeks of release, “The Way of Water” has generated $517 million in North America and $1.19 billion overseas. At the international box office, it is now the fifth-highest movie, behind only “Avatar”, “Avengers: Endgame”, “Titanic”, and “Avengers: Infinity War”.

“Avatar: The Way of Water” also stands as the highest-grossing movie released in 2022 as well as the second-biggest movie of the pandemic era following 2021’s “Spider-Man: No Way Home” ($1.91 billion).

Avatar fans have been waiting thirteen years for its sequel, which premiered on December 16 and started ten years after the original.

Sam Worthington and Zoe Saldaña returned as Jake and Neytiri. They now live in Pandora with their family.

Sigourney Weaver, Cliff Curtis, Edie Falco, Michelle Yeoh, Jemaine Clement, Oona Chaplin, Vin Diesel, Stephen Lang, Matt Gerald, Joel David Moore, CCH Pounder, Dileep Rao, Giovanni Ribisi, and Kate Winslet also star in the movie.

Cameron, who has been working on the sequel since 2013, said previously that for the movie to be profitable, it will “have to be the third or fourth highest-grossing film in history. That’s your threshold. That’s your break even.”

The movie is the first of four “Avatar” sequels planned. An untitled third “Avatar” movie is set for release on December 20, 2024.

Filming has been completed on "Avatar 3", while production on a fourth and fifth film is underway.