Walt Disney Co.’s science fiction epic “Avatar: The Way of Water” battled winter storms in the U.S. and Canada to bring in an estimated $56 million in ticket sales this weekend through Sunday.
Walt Disney Co.’s science fiction epic “Avatar: The Way of Water” battled winter storms in the U.S. and Canada to bring in an estimated $56 million in ticket sales this weekend through Sunday.
While the movie easily topped the box office, domestic ticket sales fell 58% from its $134.1 million opening weekend. That’s typical for a big film release, but executives at theater chains and at Disney had said they expected “The Way of Water” would be more resilient. That was before storms shut some cinemas and brought dangerously cold weather in many parts of the U.S.The original “Avatar” had a strong, but not spectacular, opening in 2009.
While domestic box office receipts for “The Way of Water” came in below some estimates in its opening weekend, the film generated $50 million a day in ticket sales globally after that, with many kids out of school and adults taking time off. Ticket sales may benefit from improving weather and a return of theatergoers in the coming weeks.
Sony Group’s “I Wanna Dance with Somebody,” a biopic of singer Whitney Houston, came in third with a three-day total of $5.3 million. “Babylon,” an adult drama from Paramount Global about the movie business in the 1920s, debuted in fourth place with $3.5 million through Sunday.
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