Fireplace And Ash Beats Manner Of Water’s Week 2 Field Workplace Drop As Marty Supreme Dominates New Releases

Avatar: Fireplace and Ash continues to high the home chart throughout its second weekend. Whereas the James Cameron film is monitoring beneath its fast predecessor, the record-smashing 2022 hit The Manner of Water, it nonetheless earned among the finest home debuts of the yr with a pre-Christmas 3-day haul of $89.2 million.

Per Deadline, as of Saturday morning, Avatar: Fireplace and Ash is projected to keep up its place at No. 1 in its sophomore weekend with a 3-day home gross of $60 million. This sees it dropping simply 33% from its debut, which bests The Manner of Water‘s 52.8% drop over the identical 3-day Christmas weekend body in 2022.

Whereas neither of the brand new Avatar films was capable of beat the sophomore drop of the unique 2009 film (which fell a scant 1.8%), Fireplace and Ash will surge previous the $200 million home milestone (turning into the eleventh film of 2025 to take action), hitting a cumulative whole of $213.7 million by the top of Sunday.

Due to its slimmer sophomore drop, Fireplace and Ash has closed the hole considerably between itself and The Manner of Water. The 2022 title (which is the third highest-grossing film of all time worldwide, whereas Avatar is the primary) had reached a cumulative home whole of $261 million by the top of the identical body.

In the meantime, of the three main new broad releases that debuted on Christmas Day, the Timothée Chalamet ping pong film Marty Supreme is predicted to have the perfect premiere, debuting at No. 3 behind Avatar and Disney’s billion-dollar hit Zootopia 2 with a 3-day haul of between $16 and $17 million.

This may see Marty Supreme besting Chalamet’s 2024 vacation season launch, the Bob Dylan biopic A Full Unknown. That film had a 3-day debut of simply $11.6 million. Whereas neither compares to the $39 million debut of his 2023 vacation splash Wonka, that was an IP tentpole and thus operated on a really totally different scale.

It has handily bested its rivals, specifically the Neil Diamond cowl band biopic Music Sung Blue and the meta comedy reboot Anaconda. The previous is projected to debut at No. 4 or No. 5 with a 3-day of $14.4 million amid a neck-and-neck battle with the sophomore weekend of the Sydney Sweeney thriller The Housemaid.

Music Sung Blue is predicted to debut outdoors the Prime 5 completely with a 3-day of $7.6 million.

All in all, the newcomers and holdover titles (with Avatar: Fireplace and Ash main the cost) are cumulatively set to earn roughly $180 million over the weekend, which is the perfect for a post-Christmas weekend since 2019, when titles corresponding to Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, Jumanji: The Subsequent Stage, and Frozen II pushed the home field workplace to $186.8 million.

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