Na’vi ruled and cats drooled at the weekend box office with Black Panther: Wakanda Forever holding onto third place.
It certainly is a happy new year forJames Cameronand his blue brotherhood asAvatar: The Way of Watertopped the box office for the third week in a row.
The sequel to the highest grossing movie of all time is doing some pretty decent numbers for itself, pulling in, per Comscore, an estimated $63.4 million over the weekend, taking its domestic cume to $421.5 million.
‘Puss in Boots: The Last Wish’.DreamWorks Animation
That brings it within $16 million ofBlack Panther: Wakanda Forever’s cume so far of $437.9 million over eight weeks.
Globally,The Way of Watergrossed another $186.7 million, for an international cume of $957 million, making it the highest grossing international release of 2022 and the second highest grossing international release since the start of the pandemic.
Cameron’s blockbuster had alreadysurpassed the worldwide billion dollar mark last week, putting its current total at $1.38 billion.
In its second week of release, Universal’sPuss In Boots: The Last Wishearned $16.3 million, bringing its domestic gross to $60.7 million ($129.5 million worldwide).
The third sequel in the box office top three,Wakanda Foreveradded another $4.8 million this weekend, and $7.4 million internationally, for a worldwide cume of $818.4 million.
The musical biopicWhitney Houston: I Wanna Dance With Somebodycame in fourth with $4.2 million and a domestic gross of $14.8 million; internationally it fared a bit better, snagging $8.3 million, which brings its global total to $27.9 million.
Rounding out the top five movies of the new year isDamien Chazelle’s star-studded ode to Old Hollywood,Babylon, which took in $2.7 million, for a domestic total of just $10.1 million.
Notably, no new movies opened in the top 10 at this weekend’s box office, thoughA Man Called OttostarringTom Hanksopened in four theaters in New York and L.A. and the buzzed-about dancing doll-from-hell horror filmM3GANopened internationally in France, Mexico, and Belgium, scaring up $3.3 million.
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