‘Avatar: Fire And Ash’ Becomes James Cameron’s Fourth Film To Cross $1B WW; Disney Owns Top 3 Global MPA Pics Of 2025 – International Box Office
Refresh for more…20th Century Studios’ Avatar: Fire and Ash has become the fourth James Cameron movie to earn more than $1 billion at the global box office after Avatar, Avatar: Way of Water and Titanic. The global cume is $1.08 billion with $306.0M domestic and $777.1M international.
Disney’s Avatar: Fire and Ash and Zootopia 2 led the global weekend in No. 1 and 2 spots respectively with $169.6M and $81.7M.
Avatar: Fire and Ash also becomes the second highest MPA title from 2025, titles which were all released by the Walt Disney Studios, including Zootopia 2 and Lilo & Stitch.
Domestic is much higher with a $40M third weekend, -37%, and a near $306M running cume.
A lot big milestones with Avatar 3:
- Pic is the third title in the franchise to click past $1B worldwide; the trilogy’s running total now $6.35 billion.
- As the No. 2 MPA title of 2025, Avatar 3 burns past Jurassic World: Rebirth ($869M), The Minecraft Movie ($958M) and Lilo & Stitch ($1,038M).
- Avatar: Fire and Ash stands as No. 2 MPA international release of 2025, with a gross bigger than Lilo & Stitch ($614M). The Walt Disney Studio owns the top 3 MPA titles at the 2025 B.O. which is comprised of Zootopia 2, Avatar: Fire and Ash and Lilo & Stitch.
- Avatar 3’s international weekend of $129.6M in 51 material markets saw a -29% ease with one big market surge from last weekend – Japan, +26%. Other territories held strong with Australia (-14%), Brazil (-19%), France (-23%), UK (-26%), Mexico (-27%), Germany (-27%), China (-32%), Korea (-38%) and Italy (-41%).
- In China, Avatar 3 is the No. 2 MPA release of 2025 with $138M, behind Zootopia 2‘s $601.4M.
- Imax global weekend for the Cameron directed pic was $22.5M with a running cume for the large format exhibitor of $140M, one of the corp’s top ten grossing releases of all-time.
Lionsgate’s The Housemaid opened No. 2 behind Avatar 3 in Spain, Brazil and Portugal. The pic is already released in UK, France, Australia, Netherlands and Denmark. Hidden Pictures produced and Paul Feig directed thriller has a global cume of $133M which is well ahead of the final take of the filmmaker’s A Simple Favoralso from Lionsgate ($97.7M final B.O., unadjusted for currency swings and inflation). Overseas is $57.3M while, North America posted a great -3% hold in weekend three for a running cume of $75.7M. Lionsgate didn’t report the specific international weekend results.
Also opening overseas this weekend and priming to reap off an anticipated awards halo run is Universal/Focus Features’ Song Sung Blue in Australia, UK & Ireland, Mexico, NZ and France with an overall international of $4.47M (-21% in 40 territories)/$10.3M global weekend. The running cume on the Craig Brewer directed, John Davis $30M production is $30.1M global. In Australia, the Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson movie bowed to $2M at 310 screens, ranking 5th for the weekend, 3rd with sneak previews. enjoyed a great opening, grossing $2.0M across 310 screens. The opening is well above A Complete Unknown. UK & Ireland did $1.3M at 620 screens for a No. 7 rank; $300K from New Year’s Day previews. This result is above The Holdovers. Mexico minted $266K and ranked No. 8 with best performance coming from VIP cinemas in central cities, which repped over a third of admissions. The result is in line with A Complete Unknown. Pic opened to No. 2 in New Zealand with $266K, while France brought in $188K from 273 screens. The movie has already opened in Netherland, German Switzerland, South Africa/other Africas and Austria, the latter posting an +11% surge in weekend 2 for $37K and a running cume of $114K, in line with A Real Pain and just above The Fabelmans at the same point.
Other foreign weekend results:
Wicked: For Good (Uni) 3,648 global screens/1,763 foreign, $6M WW, $2.82M Int’l (-30%), Intl Total $178.5MWW $518.3M/Wk 7
Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 (Uni) 4,469 global screens/2,843 foreign, $4.95M WW, $2.25M Int’l (-47M), Int’l Total $106.2MWW $231.4M/Wk 5
By comparison, the global adjusted for inflation and currency swings remains at a final worldwide take of $291.5M.
Also performing big in Italy is the local comedy Good Way with a running cume of 48.7M Euros or $57.4M.
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