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'Avatar: Fire and Ash' leads in N.America for fourth week

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Agence France-Presse

<div><img src="https://od2-image-api.abs-cbn.com/prod/editorImage/176817185917620260112.jpg" style="width:960px" class="fr-fic fr-dib" width="960"/>Varang (Oona Chaplin) in 20th Century Studios&#x27; &quot;Avatar: Fire and Ash&quot;. Photo courtesy of 20th Century Studios.</div>LOS ANGELES - &quot;Avatar: Fire and Ash&quot; kept the North American box office churning, claiming the top spot for a fourth week running with $21.3 million in ticket sales, industry estimates showed Sunday.The third installment in director James Cameron&#x27;s blockbuster fantasy series has now earned a <a href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/entertainment/showbiz/movies-series/2026/1/5/third-avatar-film-passes-the-1-billion-mark-worldwide-0952">massive $1.23 billion</a> worldwide, according to Exhibitor Relations.&quot;Fire and Ash&quot; stars Zoe Saldana as Na&#x27;vi warrior Neytiri and Sam Worthington as ex-Marine Jake Sully, who must battle a new foe threatening their family&#x27;s life on the planet Pandora.It is the fourth Cameron film to pass the $1 billion mark, with the first two &quot;Avatar&quot; films and &quot;Titanic.&quot;Debuting in second place in the United States and Canada was &quot;Primate,&quot; a horror film about a violent pet chimpanzee, with $11.3 million.&quot;This is a good opening for an original horror film,&quot; said David A. Gross of Franchise Entertainment Research.&quot;Horror stories that feature an evil creature generally perform better at the box office than horror stories about evil humans.&quot;Not far behind in third place at $11.2 million was &quot;The Housemaid,&quot; an adaptation of Freida McFadden&#x27;s best-selling novel about a young woman who is hired by a wealthy couple with dark secrets.Sydney Sweeney and Amanda Seyfried star in the Lionsgate release.Disney&#x27;s feel-good animated film &quot;Zootopia 2&quot; -- the other juggernaut of the holiday box office -- dropped to fourth place at $10.1 million. Its global total now stands at $1.65 billion.Lionsgate&#x27;s disaster sequel &quot;Greenland 2: Migration&quot; starring Gerard Butler came in fifth place at $8.5 million.Rounding out the top 10 are:&quot;Marty Supreme&quot; ($7.6 million)&quot;Anaconda&quot; ($5.1 million)&quot;The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants&quot; ($3.8 million)&quot;David&quot; ($3.1 million)&quot;Song Sung Blue&quot; ($3 million)bur-sst/md

"Avatar: Fire and Ash" kept the North American box office churning, claiming the top spot for a fourth week running with $21.3 million in ticket sales, industry estimates showed Sunday.

"Avatar: Fire and Ash" kept the North American box office churning, claiming the top spot for a fourth week running with $21.3 million in ticket sales, industry estimates showed Sunday.