In the third week of the release of Avatar 2, the annual box office in North America was 7.4 billion US dollars, up 60% year-on-year

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Time Network News In the last weekend of 2022 in North America, Avatar: The Way of Water (referred to as Avatar 2) reached 66.84 million US dollars for three consecutive championships, up 6% from last week, with a total of 424 million US dollars in North America and 1.4 billion US dollars in the world. (The data source of this article is boxofficemojo)

Last week, the North American market rose by 4% as a whole. The runner-up Cat in Boots 2 and the runner-up Panther 2 rose by 31.2% and 38.3% respectively from last week.

Let’s briefly summarize the North American market in 2022. Last year, the box office in North America was estimated to be 7.37 billion US dollars (50.8 billion RMB), up 64% from last year’s 4.48 billion US dollars, but it was still far from the pre-epidemic level. In 2019, North America reached 11.4 billion US dollars.

In 2022, North America mainly relied on the summer file led by the prequel of Top Gun 2 and Jurassic World 3’s Little Yellow Man with Big Eyes: Despicable Me, and the market began to slump in September until the release of Avatar: The Way of Water.

This year, the total box office in North China was converted into RMB 50.8 billion, 70% higher than the 30 billion in, and it became the largest movie market in the world again.

In the last weekend of 2022, North America mainly relied on Avatar 2, which rose by 2% month-on-month in the third week, even better than the performance of Avatar, which fell by 9.4% in the third week 13 years ago. Of course, this downturn has something to do with the overall market rise. North America was hit by a snowstorm on Christmas weekend, and many viewers delayed their plans to enter the cinema.

Battle for the annual crown

The American media estimated that the box office of the film will exceed 440 million dollars on January 2, and it will be three times as big as the opening box office in the third week, while the box office of Top Gun 2 will be 395 million dollars in the third week. Avatar 2 seems to have the possibility of surpassing Top Gun 2 in the North American market and winning the annual title in North America.

In the international market, "Avatar 2" rose 4% from last week, with a global total of $1.397 billion, surpassing "Harry Potter and Under the Deathly Hallows" and becoming the 15th movie in the global film history.

The film’s performance in Britain and Japan was average, but it was a big hit at the box office in France, South Korea and India, and the film also exceeded RMB 1 billion in the mainland market of China. Top Gun 2 has a global box office of $1.49 billion, and Avatar 2 is likely to top the global box office in 2022 this weekend.

Cat in Boots 2 grossed $134 million worldwide.

The box office of "Cat in Boots 2" began to stabilize. In the second week of its release, it rose 35% month-on-month and won the runner-up of $16.78 million, with a total of $60 million in North America and $134 million in the world.

In the eighth week of its release, Panther 2 earned 4.83 million US dollars, up 38.3% from the previous month. The cumulative US$ 437 million in North America surpassed the US$ 411 million in Doctor Strange 2, becoming the runner-up in North America in 2022, and the global cumulative box office was 820 million US dollars.

Whitney Houston’s biopic "Dancing with Love" ranked fourth in the second week of its release, with a total of $4 million, down 16.1% from the previous month, with a total of $14.62 million in North America and $28.57 million worldwide.

The annual box office tragedy "Babylon" ranked fifth with $2.6 million in the second week of its release, down 27.8% from the previous month, with a total of $10.09 million in North America. The overseas market has not yet been widely opened.

The action comedy "Night of Violence" ranked sixth with 2.11 million US dollars in the fifth week of its release, and the film accumulated 47.5 million US dollars in North America and 73.36 million US dollars in the world.

Look at the performance of the film in the awards season:

The Dreamweaver has not been widely released.

"Whale" was shown in 623 theaters, with a total of 6.19 million US dollars in North America.

Spielberg’s Dreamweaver was shown in 1149 cinemas, with a total of 12.57 million US dollars in North America and 13.14 million US dollars worldwide.

Tal was shown in 45 theaters, with a total of $5.59 million in North America.

"Women’s Talk" was shown in 8 theaters, with a total of $148,000 in North America.

This week’s new film

"Doll Megan" horror/thriller global release

Starring: Violet McGraw, Allison Williams

Plot: The story focuses on a talented robot expert of a toy company. He developed a doll M3GAN with AI and programmed it to establish an emotional connection with her newly orphaned niece, but the doll’s excessive desire for protection led to terrible results.