The James Cameron blockbuster becomes the highest-grossing release of 2022.Avatar: The Way of Water is today (Jan 4) expected to become the highest-grossing release of 2022, reaching the 1.5bn global box office mark.In reaching its latest milestone the Disney/20th Century Studios/Lightstorm blockbuster will top the 1.49bn taken by Top Gun: Maverick and become the second biggest global earner of the pandemic era, after Spider-Man: No Way Home (which racked up 1.9bn a year ago).By the end of Tuesday (Jan 3) the Avatar sequel had taken 1.482bn around the world from 21 days on release, 457.3m from North America and 1.025bn from international markets.
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