LOS ANGELES, Dec 16 (Reuters) – Director James Cameron’s long-awaited “Avatar: The Manner of Water” pulled in $17 million at U.S. and Canadian field workplaces from its first showings on Thursday night time, distributor Walt Disney Co (DIS.N) stated.
With worldwide gross sales, the sequel to the highest-grossing film of all time has generated $50.4 million at theaters across the globe because the film began rolling out on Wednesday.
Thursday’s home tally was under latest Disney launch “Black Panther: Wakanda Perpetually,” a Marvel superhero movie that racked up $28 million on its first night in November.
Hollywood’s large query is whether or not “The Manner of Water” can recoup its huge manufacturing and advertising prices. Studios break up ticket gross sales with theaters, and Cameron instructed GQ journal that “The Manner of Water” might want to make $2 billion simply to interrupt even.
Gross sales from first-night screenings don’t all the time correlate with the ultimate tally, notably across the Christmas vacation season. Field workplace consultants predict “The Manner of Water” will play in theaters for a number of weeks, as the unique film did, which might be key to incomes again its funds. The sequel ought to finish the opening weekend with no less than $140 million from home theaters, forecasters stated.
“The Manner of Water” was launched 13 years after the primary movie wowed audiences with pioneering 3D expertise. It stays the all-time field workplace champion with $2.9 billion in world ticket gross sales.
Within the new installment, actors Sam Worthington and Zoe Saldana return as Jake Sully and Neytiri 10 years later, now dad and mom of 5 kids.
Their peaceable life is interrupted when the Sky Folks, the Na’vi title for people, return to go after Jake. The Sully household seeks refuge with the oceanic Metkayina clan and should rapidly study the methods of the water to outlive.
Reporting by Lisa Richwine; Modifying by Mark Porter and Jonathan Oatis
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