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Avatar: Fire and Ash opened at No. 1 at the U.S. and Canadian box office with $89.2 million over its December 19, 2025 opening weekend. That was $44.9 million below Avatar: The Way of Water’s $134.1 million domestic debut in 2022. The ranking and the comparison describe different things: Fire and Ash led its weekend, but its opening was substantially smaller than its predecessor’s.
How much lower was Fire and Ash’s domestic opening?
The reported domestic opening for Fire and Ash was $89.2 million, compared with $134.1 million for The Way of Water. The difference is $44.9 million. Both figures refer to U.S. and Canadian opening weekends, so they are a like-for-like comparison of domestic debuts—not a comparison between one domestic total and a worldwide figure. The figures are reported on the films’ respective title pages: Avatar: Fire and Ash.
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| Film | Domestic opening | Context |
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| Avatar: Fire and Ash | $89.2 million | Opened December 19, 2025; led the domestic box office. |
| Avatar: The Way of Water | $134.1 million | Domestic opening in 2022. |
| Difference | $44.9 million | Fire and Ash opened below its predecessor by this amount. |
What did the Sunday update report?
The Sunday update was a mid-opening-weekend report, not a final lifetime-gross result. The IMDb News listing for the syndicated ScreenRant item identifies Brennan Klein as the author and says the story was refreshed with Sunday-morning projections on December 21, 2025. Its indexed listing does not provide the full updated domestic chart, so the precise Sunday domestic projection cannot be established from that listing. The listing and update description confirm the timing and projection status.
For worldwide revenue, the contemporaneous update excerpt reproduced in a MovieChat post attributed to Deadline gave an estimated $345 million worldwide, including $257 million internationally. Because this is a secondary reproduction of Deadline’s wording, treat it as a provisional Sunday estimate, not a final tally. The later reported worldwide opening figure for Fire and Ash is $347.1 million, as listed on the film’s title page. The two worldwide figures are close but not identical because one is an estimate from the Sunday update and the other is the subsequently reported opening figure. The reproduced Sunday excerpt is available in the MovieChat post.
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Does No. 1 mean the film matched its predecessor?
No. No. 1 describes Fire and Ash’s position among films playing domestically that weekend; it does not mean its opening matched or exceeded The Way of Water’s. The $89.2 million and $134.1 million figures show that the newer film started lower in the United States and Canada, while the worldwide figures address a separate market scope.
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What happened after the theatrical opening?
The film page reports that Fire and Ash was the best-selling physical-media film in May 2026 according to Circana VideoScan. That is a later home-viewing milestone, separate from box-office performance; the cited report provides no sales-unit count. The film’s title page attributes the physical-media ranking to Circana VideoScan.
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