{"id":270056,"date":"2026-01-06T09:53:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T09:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/270056\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T09:53:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T09:53:09","slug":"global-box-office-for-james-camerons-avatar-fire-and-ash-tops-us1b-franchise-total-hits-us6-35b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/270056\/","title":{"rendered":"Global box office for James Cameron\u2019s \u2018Avatar: Fire and Ash\u2019 tops US$1b, franchise total hits US$6.35b"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>LOS ANGELES, Jan 6 \u2014 James Cameron\u2019s science-fiction fantasy Avatar: Fire and Ash\u00a0has surpassed US$1 billion (RM4.05 billion) in global box office proceeds, the director\u2019s fourth film to cross that threshold.<\/p>\n<p>The film, which returned audiences to the visually stunning planet of Pandora, has brought in US$1.03 billion in worldwide ticket sales, Walt Disney Studios said on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Fire and Ash\u00a0is the third movie in the Avatar\u00a0series, which has earned a combined US$6.35 billion globally. The movie picks up where the second film, Avatar: The Way of Water,\u00a0left off \u2014 with characters Jake (Sam Worthington) and Neytiri (Zoe Saldana) mourning the loss of a son.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese movies consistently draw audiences to the movie theater,\u201d said Paul Dergarabedian, Comscore head of marketplace trends, who noted that the visually stunning 3D films are \u201ctailor made\u201d for watching in theatres.<\/p>\n<p>The first film in the franchise, Avatar,\u00a0which opened in 2009 and brought in US$2.9 billion in ticket sales worldwide, becoming the highest-grossing movie ever in absolute dollars, according to Comscore, although it\u2019s behind the 1939 classic Gone With the Wind\u00a0if box office returns are adjusted for inflation and average ticket prices over the decades.<\/p>\n<p>Thirteen years later, in 2022, Avatar: The Way of Water\u00a0opened, grossed more than US$2.3 billion globally and won an Oscar for best achievement in visual effects.<\/p>\n<p>The latest installment, released in time for the holiday season, racked up US$306 million in the US and Canada, and US$777.1 million internationally, Disney reported.<\/p>\n<p>Cameron\u2019s first billion-dollar blockbuster was Titanic,\u00a0released in 1997, which has brought in nearly US$2.3 billion, worldwide. \u2014 Reuters<\/p>\n<p>                    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/318526.JPG\" alt=\"Director James Cameron and his wife, Suzy Amis Cameron, attend the premiere for the film \u2018Avatar: Fire and Ash\u2019, in Los Angeles, California December 1, 2025. \u2014 Reuters pic  \" title=\"Director James Cameron and his wife, Suzy Amis Cameron, attend the premiere for the film \u2018Avatar: Fire and Ash\u2019, in Los Angeles, California December 1, 2025. \u2014 Reuters pic  \" onerror=\"this.style.display='none';\" style=\"width:100%\"\/>        <\/p>\n<p>Director James Cameron and his wife, Suzy Amis Cameron, attend the premiere for the film \u2018Avatar: Fire and Ash\u2019, in Los Angeles, California December 1, 2025. \u2014 Reuters pic  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES, Jan 6 \u2014 James Cameron\u2019s science-fiction fantasy Avatar: Fire and Ash\u00a0has surpassed US$1 billion (RM4.05 billion)&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":270057,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[263],"tags":[56379,62991,18,117,137836,19,17,56378,327,17488,114462],"class_list":{"0":"post-270056","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-avatar-fire-and-ash","9":"tag-avatar-the-way-of-water","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-global-box-office-proceeds","13":"tag-ie","14":"tag-ireland","15":"tag-james-cameron","16":"tag-movies","17":"tag-pandora","18":"tag-visual-effects"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115847548311177245","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}