Worldwide gross: $2,343,477,301
Two weeks after its premiere in movie theaters, Cameron’s first “Avatar” sequel had already grossed more than $1 billion at the box office, a rare feat during the COVID-19 pandemic.
It then became the second-fastest movie to cross $2 billion in just 39 days.
While discussing the digital release of “Avatar: The Way of Water,” out March 28, producer Jon Landau told Insider he and Cameron wondered if the sequel to the 2009 film would reach the number “Titanic” crossed at the box office.
“I was never nervous that people would lose interest because I didn’t think they needed to have interest. I thought we were making a new movie,” Landau said when asked if he was nervous that audiences may lose interest in an “Avatar” sequel after waiting more than a decade for it.
“I looked at this almost like an original piece of content that happened to be with known characters in a known world, but we were showing them in a new way. So I was nervous about how the movie would do because when you stop being nervous, you stop caring. But I was never worried,” Landau added of the movie’s strong box-office performance.
