James Cameron’s Avatar nets an additional $30 million at the theater, over 13 years since its original 2009 release. | Image: 20th Century Fox
The remastered rerelease of James Cameron’s Avatar is set to earn Disney an additional $30 million in global ticket sales since last week, ranking domestically in third place at the box office behind Don’t Worry Darling and The Woman King.
The 4K HDR version of Avatar was rereleased to theaters in the US on Friday, September 23rd, after the original 2009 movie was quietly pulled from Disney Plus in order to encourage people back to the theater and build hype for its upcoming sequel, Avatar: The Way of Water.
Comscore estimates that the rerelease of Avatar brought in $20.5 million internationally and $10 million in the US, bringing the…