Avatar The Way of Water box office collection Day 4: James Cameron film sees a dip after a roaring weekend, eyes Rs 200 crore in first week

With Rs 41 crore on Friday, Avatar became the first film to register such a staggering opening day figure in the post-pandemic era, outshining several Bollywood films that released this year. Even Bollywood hits such as Drishyam 2 and Bhool Bhulaiyaa 2 failed to get such numbers at the box office.

The sequel to the 2009 film has already earned $134 million from North American theaters and $300.5 million internationally for a $434.5 million (Rs 3,598 crore approx) global debut, according to studio estimates on Sunday.

Talking about creating Avatar 2, James Cameron in an interview to Variety said, “When I was writing the new films, I was going through that as a father of teenagers. And my conclusion was, no matter what you go through in terms of dysfunction, the family’s your fortress. And I wanted to somehow, through my art, convey that, because I thought it was a big missing piece in action movies these days.”

He also opened up about the themes of the film and said that it still revolves around the environment. “It’s about what I call the struggle between the takers and the caretakers. The indigenous people are caretakers. They’re the ones that have the power in our world right now to reconnect us with a vision of nature that’s more protective and cooperative and harmonious. If we don’t adopt that attitude, we will die out. It’s that simple,” the filmmaker said.