Final box-office projections?
Lets guess how it will finish overall.
Honestly I’m surprised it made even those money. I thought it might flop.
It under performs massively to first movie.
Avatar made $785 millions at domesitc and $2,899 billion worldwide
https://www.the-numbers.com/box-office-records/domestic/all-movies/cumulative/all-time
First one had amazing legs thanks to novelty and word of mouth. Second one doesn’t have that. Its like it came out and people are already forgetting it and there is no going to theater 10 times to watch it. And 3 hours time is ruining it. There is no way I will go watch it second time to sit for another 3 hours to watch that pointless action scene at the end. Movie should have been 2.5 hours max.
It will get good money between 26 December and 5 January. And then will probably decline massively. It should get 400 millions easy. But will it get to 500+ millions? That goal is hard to reach. But it must not to be considered flop, considering its gigantic budget.
I actually root for it. Because at least its some movie that is not comic books. And its sci fi movie. And I like Cameron’s work overall. And people need to go to theaters to save them. Covid wounded box-office too much. Not even quarantine itself. But those streaming platforms that started airing movies right after premiere. And even now they still do that. There is such short time between movie theater and streaming airing. People just stopped going to movies the way they were.
I used to go to theater frequently. Because there was no way otherwise to watch big movie quickly. It would show up 4 month later. Now its our there in few weeks so why bother and spend money. And many people do the same. And apart from comic book movies - there are many small budget ones that need to make some money. But no one bothers to spend money watching it when it will be for free in no time.