It was only a matter of time and it only took 16 short days for him to achieve this feat: Avatar 2 The Way of Water has just dethroned Tom Cruise and Top Gun Maverick from their pedestal in France . Indeed, at the end of the day on Thursday, December 29, 2022, James Cameron’s film counted 6,870,704 entries compared to 6,676,052 entries for Top Gun Maverick. Even better, Avatar 2 recorded no less than 559,147 admissions on Thursday 29 December alone and continues to attract a huge crowd in theaters during these Christmas holidays, with an increase in attendance of 10% more spectators during its second week in theaters. Worldwide, the film crossed the symbolic bar of one billion dollars collected, the third in 2022 to reach this threshold after Jurassic World Dominion (1 billion) and Top Gun Maverick (1.4 billion). Difficult to know if Avatar 2 will manage to do better than its eldest and its 2.9 billion dollars collected in 2009 (with all the same some releases in the United States and China), and the 14.6 million admissions achieved in France at the ‘era. But when we see the stratospheric start in just 15 days, there is a good chance that the film will continue to attract a maximum of spectators.
Tom Cruise and Top Gun Maverick have just been dethroned in France by #Avatar2 which becomes in 16 days the most viewed film of 2022 with 6,870,704 admissions. There were 559,147 admissions on Thursday 30 December alone.
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— Maxime CHAO (@MaximeChao) December 30, 2022