Avatar: Fire and Ash kept the North American box office churning, claiming the top spot for a fourth week running with $21.3 million in ticket sales, industry estimates showed Sunday.
The third installment in director James Cameron’s blockbuster fantasy series has now earned a massive $1.23 billion worldwide, according to Exhibitor Relations.
Fire and Ash stars Zoe Saldana as Na’vi warrior Neytiri and Sam Worthington as ex-Marine Jake Sully, who must battle a new foe threatening their family’s life on the planet Pandora. It is the fourth Cameron film to pass the $1 billion mark, along with the first two Avatar films and Titanic.
Debuting in second place in the United States and Canada was Primate, a horror film about a violent pet chimpanzee, with $11.3 million.
Not far behind in third place at $11.2 million was The Housemaid, an adaptation of Freida McFadden’s best-selling novel about a young woman hired by a wealthy couple with dark secrets. Sydney Sweeney and Amanda Seyfried star in the Lionsgate release.
Disney’s feel-good animated film Zootopia 2, the other juggernaut of the holiday box office, dropped to fourth place at $10.1 million, bringing its global total to $1.65 billion. Lionsgate’s disaster sequel Greenland 2: Migration, starring Gerard Butler, came in fifth place at $8.5 million.
Rounding out the top 10 were Marty Supreme with $7.6 million, Anaconda at $5.1 million, The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants with $3.8 million, David at $3.1 million, and Song Sung Blue with $3 million. AFP
