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Third 'Avatar' film passes the $1 billion mark worldwide

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Avatar Fire and Ash

Agence France-Presse

<div><span class="fr-img-caption fr-fic fr-dib" style="width:960px;display:block" width="960"><span class="fr-img-wrap"><img src="https://od2-image-api.abs-cbn.com/prod/editorImage/176757786282120260105010144_3040A_0200_v1271.L.1025.jpg" style="width:960px" class="fr-fic fr-dib" width="960"/><span class="fr-inner" style="text-align:left">Varang (Oona Chaplin) in 20th Century Studios&#x27; &quot;Avatar: Fire and Ash&quot;. <em>Photo courtesy of 20th Century Studios.</em></span></span></span></div><p>LOS ANGELES - &quot;Avatar: Fire and Ash&quot; has surpassed the $1 billion mark at the global box office, as it kept the top spot in North American theaters with another $40 million in ticket sales, industry estimates showed Sunday.</p><p>The third installment in director James Cameron&#x27;s blockbuster series has now earned $306 million in the United States and Canada, and another $777 million abroad, putting the total at $1.08 billion, Exhibitor Relations reported.</p><p>&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.</p><p>It is the fourth Cameron film to pass the $1 billion mark, with the first two &quot;Avatar&quot; films and &quot;Titanic.&quot;</p><div><a href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/entertainment/showbiz/movies-series/2025/12/19/movie-review-avatar-fire-and-ash-is-visually-stunning-but-narratively-repetitive-1400">Movie review: &#x27;Avatar: Fire and Ash&#x27; is visually stunning but narratively repetitive</a></div><div><span class="fr-video fr-deletable fr-fvc fr-dvb fr-draggable" contenteditable="false" draggable="true"><iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/SXoU1Os34Fc?&amp;wmode=opaque&amp;rel=0" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen="" class="fr-draggable"></iframe></span><br/></div><div><br/></div><p>In second place in North America was &quot;Zootopia 2,&quot; Disney&#x27;s feel-good animated film and an Oscar contender, at $19 million. Its global total now stands at nearly $1.6 billion.</p><p>Coming in third at $14.9 million was Lionsgate&#x27;s &quot;The Housemaid,&quot; a film version of Freida McFadden&#x27;s best-selling novel about a young woman (Sydney Sweeney) who is hired by a wealthy couple (Amanda Seyfried and Brandon Sklenar) with dark secrets.</p><p>&quot;Marty Supreme,&quot; A24&#x27;s period sports drama starring Timothee Chalamet, finished in fourth place with $12.6 million.</p><p>&quot;Anaconda,&quot; the new meta comedy action flick starring Paul Rudd and Jack Black as friends trying to reboot the original 1997 horror film, finished in fifth place with $10 million.</p><p>Rounding out the top 10 are:</p><p>&quot;The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants&quot; ($8.2 million)</p><p>&quot;David&quot; ($8 million)</p><p>&quot;Song Sung Blue&quot; ($5.8 million)</p><p>&quot;Wicked: For Good&quot; ($3.3 million)</p><p>&quot;Five Nights at Freddy&#x27;s 2&quot; ($2.7 million)</p><p>bur-sst/des</p><div><span class="fr-video fr-deletable fr-fvc fr-dvb fr-draggable" contenteditable="false" draggable="true"><iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/w3Fny11PVuk?&amp;wmode=opaque&amp;rel=0" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen="" class="fr-draggable"></iframe></span><br/></div>

<p>"Avatar: Fire and Ash" has surpassed the $1 billion mark at the global box office, as it kept the top spot in North American theaters with another $40 million in ticket sales, industry estimates showed Sunday.</p>

"Avatar: Fire and Ash" has surpassed the $1 billion mark at the global box office, as it kept the top spot in North American theaters with another $40 million in ticket sales, industry estimates showed Sunday.