Avatar. Of Fire and Ashes dominates the North American box office

The third film Avatar, James Cameron’s ecological fable which has become one of the biggest hits in the history of cinema, dominated the North American box office for its theatrical release during the weekend before Christmas, according to estimates on Sunday from the specialist firm Exhibitor Relations.

Avatar: Fire and Ash grossed $88 million in the United States and Canada, and $345 million worldwide, over the weekend. The film should once again be a great success internationally, estimated David Gross, analyst at Franchise Entertainment Research, who emphasizes that Avatar “ reaches audiences all over the world ».

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Produced like the previous parts by 20th Century Studios, this new part should benefit, according to him, from a “ excellent word of mouth ». « There’s more to the Avatar films than how they start. It’s what they do after they get out that counts “, he added. The film once again stars Sam Worthington and Zoe Saldana as former Marine Jake Sully and warrior Neytiri, who face a new enemy threatening the lives of their family on the planet Pandora.

Second place in the North American box office is occupied by Davidan animated film revisiting the biblical story of David and Goliath, with 20 million dollars in revenue.

The cleaning ladyadaptation of Freida McFadden’s best-seller about a young woman (Sydney Sweeney) hired by a wealthy New York family as a domestic worker, is third with $19 million.

The animated film The SpongeBob Movie: One for all, all pirates!based on the famous Nickelodeon program, debuts in fourth place, with $16 million, for its first weekend in theaters. In fifth position is another animated film, Zootopia 2from Disney, which raised $14.5 million. The film, which is in the running for the Oscars, has already generated $1.27 billion in worldwide revenue.

The rest of the top 10:

Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 (nearly $7.3 million)

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Wicked : partie II ($4.3 million)

Dhurandhar ($2.5 million)

Marty Supreme (875 000 dollars)

Hamnet (850 000 dollars)