Hearth And Ash Falls Out Of The Field Workplace Prime 5 Weeks Earlier Than Both Of The OG Motion pictures

Avatar: Hearth and Ash‘s field workplace sizzling streak is cooling down considerably.

2025’s Avatar: Hearth and Ash, which is the third installment in James Cameron’s record-smashing sci-fi franchise, debuted on December 19 with the second-biggest opening weekend of the trilogy. Nonetheless, it solely held No. 1 on the home chart for 5 weekends earlier than being usurped by the Chris Pratt film Mercy, falling wanting the earlier films’ seven-week streaks at No. 1.

Per Deadline, as of Saturday morning, Avatar: Hearth and Ash is projected to earn a 3-day whole of $3.2 million by the tip of its eighth weekend in theaters. This may see it touchdown at No. 8 on the home Prime 10 chart for the weekend. Mercy beforehand pushed it to No. 2, and it fell to No. 5 the next weekend behind the brand new releases Ship Assist, Iron Lung, and Melania.

This weekend, whereas Melania dropped beneath Hearth and Ash, the brand new releases Solo Mio, Stray Children: The dominATE Expertise, Dracula, and The Strangers: Chapter 3 all debuted above it, pushing it out of the Prime 5 utterly.

That is the quickest that any installment from the franchise has dropped out of the Prime 5, as the unique 2009 film held on for 12 weekends whereas 2022’s The Manner of Water spent 11 weekends on the chart. Under, see a breakdown of the Avatar films’ chart positions throughout the first 13 weekends of their respective runs:

Whereas it’s attainable that a few of the new releases that debuted above the James Cameron film may drop beneath it throughout its ninth weekend, it appears unlikely that the film will rise again up into the Prime 5 at any level via the tip of the Avatar: Hearth and Ash theatrical launch.

Whereas horror releases and live performance films similar to Stray Children and The Strangers can have brutal sophomore weekend drops, titles similar to Ship Assist, Iron Lung, Solo Mio, and even Zootopia 2 (which is in its eleventh weekend) stay comfortably above Avatar 3.

Throughout Hearth and Ash‘s ninth weekend, these 4 titles shall be joined by incoming releases together with Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights and Gore Verbinski’s Good Luck, Have Enjoyable, Do not Die. Because the weeks move, titles similar to A24’s The way to Make a Killing, Scream 7, and Pixar’s Hoppers can even be a part of the fray, possible locking Avatar out of the Prime 5 for good.

This isn’t essentially a loss of life knell for Avatar: Hearth and Ash, nonetheless. Whereas the franchise is displaying diminishing returns, and it appears unlikely that the brand new film will gross greater than $2 billion like its predecessors, it has already earned greater than $1.4 billion worldwide, making it the 18th highest-grossing film of all time.

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