Avatar: Fire and Ash box office: How much did James Cameron's film make in week 1? Did it beat part 2? Latest numbers

Avatar: Fire and Ash rockets past $500 million box office collection globally in its first week though it trails behind its predecessors.

Published on: Dec 27, 2025, 06:11:00 IST

By Shirin Gupta

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Avatar: Fire and Ash, the third movie of James Cameron's long-running franchise Avatar, had a successful first week at the global box office. The movie crossed a whopping $500 million mark worldwide by Christmas Day.

Avatar: Fire and Ash box office collection crossed $500 million globally (Photo by Marty MELVILLE / AFP) (AFP)

According to Variety, Fire and Ash earned roughly $544 million globally in its first seven days. However, the film's performance in its opening week compares unfavourably to the blockbuster outing of 2022's Avatar: The Way of Water.

Week 1 box office figures

The film opened to an estimated $347 million worldwide over its opening weekend, with $88 million from the U.S. and Canada. The other $250 million was added from overseas markets.

Fire and Ash stands as the strongest holiday opening of 2025, trailing behind animated blockbuster Zootopia 2.

The movie earned another extra $24 million domestically pushing its total past the $500 mark.

Avatar vs Avatar

Avatar: The Way of Water opened in 2022 to approximately $134 million domestically in its first weekend and amassed a global opening of around $441 million over the same period of time.

However, Fire and Ash made a solid start, especially amid the shrinking number of cinema-goers and with three movies, Marty Supreme and Zootopia 2 fighting alongside in the holiday season.

Multiple reports suggest that Fire and Ash might still reach a higher earning target in the second week.

Entertainment Weekly has reported that Cameron's Avatar franchise has scheduled for two more releases, with Avatar 4 releasing in 2029, and Avatar 5 releasing in 2031. A small portion of Avatar 4 has already been shot during the production of 2 and 3

However, the release is not assured. Cameron said, “If we don't get to make 4 and 5, for whatever reason, I'll hold a press conference, and I'll tell you what we were gonna do. How's that?”

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Shirin Gupta
Shirin Gupta is a content producer with the Hindustan Times. She covers everything between politics, entertainment and sports at the US desk. Shirin got interested in political journalism during her time as a web editor at her college newspaper NCC News in Syracuse when she first started seeing the effects of national politics in life of her fellow colleagues. Shirin has worked on a wide range of fast-moving and developing stories locally when she was at NCC editing accessible reports for the audience. Her current role requires her to track real-time updates, verify information and present balanced coverage across diverse beats. Covering US politics from an international newsroom perspective has further deepened her understanding of how domestic decisions can have far-reaching global consequences. With a keen interest in international affairs, Shirin continues to build her expertise in geopolitics, policy shifts, and cross-border developments. She aims to learn and evolve her reporting in matters of geopolitics and international issues. Outside the newsroom Shirin writes about books and music for her personal blog. She is an avid consumer of pop culture and reveres literature.Read More

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