


That animated sequel ultimately finished with over $162 million. The Last Wish is at $126.4 million but its weekend was over $6.5 million higher than Sing 2’s was. Last year, Sing 2 was at $128.4 million by the end of its fifth weekend. Last week it was headed for somewhere over $135 million, but now its potential floor is much, much greater. 2 slot with $11.5 million, a mere 21% drop from its fourth weekend. Moving up in the world this week was Puss In Boots: The Last Wish, which landed in the No. The Top 10 and Beyond: Puss in Boots Moves Up, M3GAN Maintains Can The Way of Water maintain that kind of pace to get itself over $700 million domestic? Passing Jurassic World’s $652 million appears to be in the cards, but Maverick may still have had enough propulsion to maintain its standing as the top film of 2022. Now, Cruise’s film was only at $564 million on day 38, but maintained quite the run for another two months, with eight straight weeks of drops below 21% from its eighth weekend through Labor Day. ( Frozen had a $19.57 million sixth weekend.) But apart from the first Avatar and Titanic ranking above it, the second-highest film on that list is Top Gun: Maverick ($25.8 million), which also benefitted from a rah-rah weekend with July 4th falling on that Monday. Its sixth-weekend haul is also much higher than The Last Jedi ($6.5 million) and Jurassic World ($11.4 million), and if the estimates stand, it is the fourth-highest ever. That’s right, the two billion moment is here for The Way of Water ($2.02 billion to be precise) and, if we are to believe Cameron’s math, every dollar going forward is profit. Only 11 other films have done it since Titanic first achieved it back in 1998, and only five other films have done what it is has done worldwide. With another $20 million this weekend the film is on the verge of becoming just the 13th film in history to pass $600 million domestic. Nevertheless, it is about to hit some major milestones. James Cameron’s Avatar: The Way of Water led the way for a sixth straight week, but it did have its smallest margin of victory this week, thanks in part to a minimal drop by its closest challenger.
