Avatar: Fire and Ash Crosses $1 Billion at Global Box Office

LOS ANGELES (Entertainment Weekly) — January 5, 2026: The third installment of the fantasy Avatar series by James Cameron continues to ride high on the box office with almost $40 million domestically and $169.6 million globally, in its third week of release, bringing the total to over $1 billion.

According to Comscore, the film’s CGI fantasia boasts an approximate $306 million in total proceeds in the domestic market and $777.1 million abroad, pushing its global total to over $1.08 billion. This week, Fire and Ash experienced a domestic drop of nearly thirty-seven percent from $64 million to $40 million. Similarly, it experienced a twenty-nine percent drop on the global stage.

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Although this comes as a major win for the versatile director, with four highest-grossing films of all time, Cameron is yet to earn the title of 2025’s highest-grossing film director. According to Entertainment Weekly, this honor remains with Jared Bush and Byron Howard, co-directors for Disney’s animated film, Zootopia 2. The animated sequel is currently sitting at $1.58 billion at the global box office and $363.6 million domestically.

Fire and Ash, on the other hand, is performing notably better than its predecessor Avatar: The Way of Water, which opened in 2022 with a remarkable $134 million. To date, the second installment has brought in $425.4 million domestically.

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Other notable releases doing well at the box office include:

• Wicked: For Good (starring Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande)

• Zootopia 2 (starring Jenifer Goodwin & Jason Bateman)

• Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 (starring Josh Hutcherson & Mckenna Grace)

• The Housemaid (starring Amanda Seyfried & Sydney Sweeney)

Varang (Oona Chaplin) in ‘Avatar: Fire and Ash’. Credit: 20th Century Studios

Avatar is expected to maintain its supremacy at the box office for now, with only two major releases scheduled for the second week of January 2026 — Paramount’s Primate and Lionsgate’s Greenland 2: Migration.

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