Avatar: Fire and Ash’s opening weekend at the box office is big, just not in the U.S.

James Cameron’s third Avatar movie, Fire and Ash, has done the expected and set the global box office on fire with a $345 million opening weekend. That’s big — the third-biggest opening of 2025 — but it’s some way off the opening of Avatar: The Way of Water, which earned $441.7 million in 2022. It’s also over $200 million behind the record-breaking $556.4 million opening of Disney’s previous hit, Zootopia 2.