Avatar 2 continues to float at the top of the North American box office, according to provisional figures for Monday from the specialized firm Exhibitor Relations, despite dark rooms partly deserted because of the violent winter storm which upset the Christmas weekend.
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The highly anticipated sequel to the 2009 sci-fi blockbuster grossed $90 million between Friday and Monday, a holiday in the United States and Canada, in its second week of release.
Including international admissions, James Cameron’s film has grossed a total of more than $881 million since its release, according to figures from Box Office Mojo.
Again located on the planet Pandora, Avatar: The Waterway tells a story set more than a decade after the events of the first film.
U.S. Marine Jake Sully, played by Sam Worthington, has transitioned into the body of a Na’vi, the tall, blue-skinned people of Pandora, and he works with them to protect their habitat from a fatal threat.
Another sequel, the children’s movie Puss in Boots 2: The Last Quest, slipped to second place on the podium, despite entries below forecasts, or $ 17.5 million over four days, for its first weekend in theaters.
In this children’s film, Puss in Boots, voiced by actor Antonio Banderas, embarks on an epic adventure to restore his nine lives.
The biopic about singer Whitney Houston I Wanna Dance With Somebody lands him in third position with only 6.8 million dollars in revenue for his first weekend.
A work of excess, the feature film Babylon, starring Margot Robbie and Brad Pitt, raised just $5.3 million for its start-up, another “disappointing performance due to outside conditions,” points out David Gross of Franchise Entertainment Research.
Six years after the triumph of La La Land, the gifted Damien Chazelle offers in this film a vibrant tribute to the Hollywood of the 1920s, at a time when sound was beginning to appear, condemning the silent world to oblivion.
As for Black Panther : Wakanda Forever, the sequel to the 2018 afrofuturistic Marvel movie tumbled to fifth place with $5.3 million in its seventh week on screens.
Here’s the rest of the top 10:
6) Violent Night (4.3 million dollars)
7) The Whale (1,5 million)
8) The Menu (1 million)
9) The Fabelmans (900 000 dollars)
10) Avalonia, the strange journey (675 000 dollars)