Avatar: Fire & Ash $345 Million Opening Weekend Box Office Was Expected. $88 million in its domestic box office debut, and $257 million at the International box office, Avatar: Fire & Ash performed exactly as expected. While the numbers aren’t massive, they are in line with past Avatar movie releases.
With Avatar and Avatar: The Way of Water doing $2.9 billion and $2.3 billion, Fire & Ash has a long way to go, but those numbers are not out of the question. The past releases spent 7 weeks in a row at the top position and were massive hits internationally. Fire & Ash seems to be tracking really well going into the Holiday Weekend, both domestically and internationally.
The pressure of doing massive box office numbers is not on the film itself; the movie seems like it has paid for itself already. Unlike Way of Water, which needed to be one of the biggest box office movies of all time according to James Cameron, “Avatar: The Way of Water needed to become one of the top-grossing releases of all time to break even.” Plus, opening weekends have never been an “Avatar” thing. It is all about legs, and will fans keep showing up at premium screenings like the IMAX or Dolby Cinema showings?
If the demand is anything like the demand for the Avatar: Fire & Ash popcorn buckets, then it will be around for some time!
Avatar: Fire & Ash – Opens exclusively in theaters on December 19, 2025. Avatar: Fire and Ash serves as the third installment in this record-breaking saga. Director James Cameron invites moviegoers to rejoin Jake Sully (Sam Worthington), the former Marine turned leader, alongside the fierce warrior Neytiri (Zoe Saldaña) and their children for a deeply immersive journey.
