Avatar: The Way Of Water surpasses Infinity War box office - The A.V. Club
All the Avatar skeptics are eating their words today, as they likely have been since the film’s first rave reviews started rolling in.
Cameron may not have nabbed a Best Director nomination from the Academy for Avatar: The Way Of Water, but now has three of the five top-grossing films of all time.Variety reports that on Thursday, the Avatar sequel officially surpassed Avengers: Infinity War to become the fifth highest-grossing film of all time with $2.054 billion at the global box office.Further stats: the film’s $1.5 billion international gross makes it the fourth biggest movie ever, while the $603 million domestic gross clocks in at the 13th biggest movie in the U.S. It’s the sixth-ever film to cross the $2 billion mark globally, per the outlet.Cameron himself mused that his pet project would have to be “the third or fourth highest-grossing film in history” to break even, though he later claimed that the figure he needed to justify his handful of Avatar sequels “is actually less” than the reported $2 billion.It now resides behind Avatar, Avengers: Endgame, Titanic, and Star Wars: The Force Awakens on the all-time box office list, with a pretty good chance of trumping Force Awakens ’ $2.07 billion global gross.