Whew.After an overall worrisome Christmas corridor for moviegoing, the first full weekend of January is bringing relief for Hollywood and theater owners, thanks to Avatar-The-Way-of-Water-2022-movie-posters/”>Avatar: The Way of Water and new offering M3GAN, a sci-fi themed horror pic from Universal and Blumhouse.The Way of Water, which was the lone movie to do big business at the year-end box office, will earn anywhere from 40 million to 45 million in its fourth weekend.
Sometime on Saturday or Sunday, the 20th Century and Disney tentpole will jump the 500 million mark at the domestic box office, a feat accomplished by only two other films since the pandemic began, Spider-Man: No Way Home and Top-Gun: Maverick.
Even before the Covid-19 crisis, this milestone was achieved by a select few in any given year.M3GAN even beat The Way of Water on Friday with 11.7 million, including 2.75 million in Thursday previews.
The Avatar sequel, which
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