Fire And Ash’ $87M No.1 Global Weekend, WW $1.23B

Avatar: Fire and Ash is still the rage around the world with a global weekend of $86.9M, $65.6M of that minted in its fourth weekend abroad in 52 material territories taking the 20th Century Studios pic’s foreign haul to $888M and global $1.23 billion. The trilogy’s running cume is $6.5B.

That global take is down 52% off the holiday holdover frame last weekend with holds including Brazil (-24%), Australia (-31%), Spain (-41%) and UK (-41%).  The pic bowed as the No. 1 MPA title in Hong Kong this weekend with $900K (with previews cume stands at $2.3M). As we told you previously, the James Cameron movie remains 2025’s second best MPA title in China with $149M behind Zootopia 2.

Among highlights, are that stateside ($21M), the threequel is the first domestic release to rank No. 1 for four weekends in a row since 2023’s Barbie.

After China, the next top territories for the Cameron 3D sci-fi epic is France ($91.7M), Germany ($73.7M), Korea ($48.5M), UK ($48M) and Mexico ($36.5M).

Of the global take for the threequel, Disney can thank Imax for $12.2M this past weekend ($7M foreign, $1.7M China, and $3.5M domestic). The large format exhibitor’s running total on the threequel stands at $159M ($48.5M domestic), the big picture corp’s seventh highest grossing title ever. Overall, Imax theaters rep 13% of the pic’s worldwide take.

Zootopia 2 in full release in all markets raked in $40.9M global ($30.8M from 52 material territories, $10.1M domestic) for a running total of $1.276B worldwide, with $1.655B from foreign alone. That latter figure makes the sequel the No. 6 MPA international release of all-time, and the No. 1 MPA animated international release of all-time and No. 1 MPA international release of 2025 (as we previously told you).

Overall global weekend seven saw a -52% overall decline, with holds in key markets including Brazil (+9%), Australia (-2%), Japan (-41%), Mexico (-41%), and UK (-45%). The sequel remains the No. 1 pic in Japan and China for the weekend and No. 2 in Germany, Austria, Sweden, Switzerland, Czechia, Georgia, Qatar, Slovakia, South Africa, Uzbekistan, Australia, Korea (non-local), Singapore, Taiwan (non-local), Thailand, Hong Kong (non-local), Indonesia, Vietnam, and across all of Latin America (except Brazil and Mexico).

China counts $611M in cume, followed by Japan $76.7M, France at $69.4M, Korea at $54.6M and Germany at $43.6M.

When it comes to movies funded by foreign sales, collecting exact weekend data takes time, so we’ll have further updates for you later this AM or tomorrow. In the meantime, we know that Lionsgate’s The Housemaid cleaned up another $25.5M from 66 territories this weekend for a running global take of $192.5M ($98.3M foreign). The Housemaid was the No. 1 in UK this weekend where it has taken in an estimated $23.7M to date.

As we told you, Anaconda slither past $100M this past weekend, global is now (updated) $110.1M with 63 international markets grossing $7.7 million from 11,900+ screens for an overseas total of $55.8M through today. Top market cumes: Australia ($8.1 million), UK ($6.4 million), Mexico ($4.7 million), Germany ($3.3 million), Brazil ($3.1 million).

Universal International/Focus Features’ Hamnet was great in the UK with $4.2M ($4.8M global weekend), making it the highest opening weekend for this year’s awards contenders above One Battle After Another, Sinners and more than double Marty Supreme. The film has also topped the openings of A Complete Unknown, Little Women, The Favourite, Belfast, Poor Things and more than double Conclave. That’s also the highest post Covid opening for a January release in the awards corridor in the UK, the 5th biggest January opening for a drama in the last decade, and second biggest drama opening since the start of 2025 behind only Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale. The Chloe Zhao movie is also Jessie Buckley’s highest opening weekend in a leading role while Chloe Zhao and Paul Mescal will see Hamnet as their second highest respective openings behind Eternals ($7.3M unadjusted for inflation and currency swings) and Gladiator II ($11.4M).

Song Sung Blue brought in $2.8M abroad in 52 territories, led by openings in Spain, Italy and Germany for a global weekend of $5.8M. Global stands at $40.7M for the Universal International/Focus Features Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson musical, $9.5M of that from offshore.

Germany counted $396K at 371 screens for a No. 10 debut, which included $163K previews. Business was impacted by winter storm “Elli”, which prompted official warnings to “stay home” with school closures and event cancellations. Spain grossed $98K at 196 screens, a No. 12 opening. Italy was $82K at 192 for a No. 12 opening in a soft market which was overall -34% from last weekend, we’re told. Australia posted $1.2M, for a solid -26% dip in weekend 2 ranking No. 5. The pic’s $3.9M cume is above that of  A Complete Unknown at the same point. The second weekend for the Craig Brewer directed movie in the UK & Ireland saw $600K for a No. 8 rank and running cume of $2.5M, above The Holdovers, Manchester By The Sea and The Iron Claw at the same point.

Paramount’s Primate was limited in its overseas launch with only $2.1M this weekend, $925K of that from Mexico putting its global debut frame at $13.4M. Mexico booked the Johannes Roberts movie at 865 locations. Peru made $220K at 48 sites, Colombia $110K at 195, Argentina $106K at 160 sites, Israel $104K at 30, Central America was $80K from 22 theaters, Chile was $70K at 75 locations, while Hungary was $52K at 45 locations. All those figures included previews. The chimp crawls into France on Jan. 21, Australia on Jan. 22; Germany, Italy, Brazil and Korea on Jan. 29; UK on Jan. 30 and Spain on Feb. 6.