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Too bad no one has seenAvatar : The Way of Water . If they had , maybe it would already be the highest - grossing movie of all clip . As it stands though , the small movie that couldjust became merely the 4th highest - grossing movie of all - sentence , toppingthe highest - grossing filmin one of the world ’s most pop franchise , Star Wars .

As of this weekend , Avatar : The Way of Water has gross $ 2.12 billion at the worldwide box office . That puts it forward of the $ 2.07 billion grossed in 2015 - 2016 by Star Wars : The Force Awakens , which sit atop that mountain of a franchise . The only films that have now outgrossed The path of Water are Titanic , Avengers : Endgame , and the first Avatar . Two of which , evidently , are also organise by James Cameron . Which is just brain - boggling .

More so than anything else , this latest in along line of impressive achievementsby Cameron ’s latest shows how the popularity of Avatar and Star Wars are almost reciprocally toss - flopped worldwide vs. domestically . Domestically , The Way of Water is n’t even tight to what The Force Awakens grossed ( It ’s # 11 all - fourth dimension domestically with almost $ 621 million vs. Force Awakens ’ ostensibly unprocurable near-$937 million . ) That ’s a gap of over $ 300 million . The difference is made up internationally where the opposite is honest , and Avatar has grossed about $ 300 million more than Star Wars . The same can be said for the original Avatar , which has grossed an incredible $ 785 million domestically ( almost $ 200 million behind Star Wars ) , but $ 2.14 billion internationally . America loves Avatar , but not as much as the quietus of the domain does .

In the battle between Na’vi and Sith, Na’vi has now triumphed.

In the battle between Na’vi and Sith, Na’vi has now triumphed.Image: Disney

So what other records did The Way of Water break this week ? Well , according to its distributor , Disney , the subsequence is now the highest - gross flick of all - clip in France , Austria , Lithuania , Bulgaria , Estonia , Hungary , Lebanon , Romania , Slovenia , Slovakia , Kazakhstan , Kyrgyzstan , Uzbekistan , Georgia , Cambodia , Mongolia , New Zealand , Colombia , and Puerto Rico . Not a bad lean .

And approximate what ? It evince no signs of stopping . This past weekend stigmatize its seventh week at the top of the domestic box office , an achievement that has n’t been matched since * checks government note * the old Avatar film . However , that streak is likely to end this workweek with the release of M. Night Shyamalan ’s Knock at the Cabin , followed by next week ’s release of Marvel ’s Ant - Man and the Wasp : Quantumania . But even being number three or four at the boxwood office for a few more calendar week will nudge The Way of Water even higher on the lean . It ’s $ 80 million by from the number three spot held by Titanic , which seems accomplishable before the run is out . numeral two , however , is believably not . That ’s Avengers : Endgame and it ’s almost $ 700 million off . A whole other domestic spill .

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