Director James Cameron’s Avatar: The Last Airbender continued to dominate the box office over the New Year’s weekend.

According to Variety, Avatar: The Last Airbender earned $63.4 million domestically over the New Year’s weekend and is expected to bring in $82.4 million over the four-day holiday.

The film has so far grossed $421.6 million in the US and $956.9 million overseas. Its worldwide gross is $1.38 billion. The Avatar sequel is now the fifteenth biggest global release of all time, behind Black Panther and ahead of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2.

In second place is Universal and DreamWorks Animation’s Puss in Boots: The Last Wish , which earned $16.3 million over the weekend and is expected to earn $21.7 million over the weekend. Four days, that would bring the domestic animated adventure total to just over $66 million.

Disney and Marvel’s Black Panther: Wakanda Forever came in third with $4.8 million over the weekend and $6.5 million over the holiday period. Its domestic total is $438 million, while its global total is $818.5 million.

In fourth place, Sony and Tri-Star’s Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance With Somebody earned $4.2 million for the weekend and $5.4 million for the weekend. The biopic took in $16 million domestically, which is a poor result for a film with a $45 million budget.

Paramount’s Babylon, a tale of overambitious ambition and excess that follows the rise and fall of several heroes during an era of decadence in early Hollywood, rounded out the top five on the chart. The $80 million drama earned $2.7 million over the weekend. and is expected to gross just $3.6 million over the four-day holiday.

A24’s acclaimed Brendan Fraser-starring college professor drama Whale earned $372,950 on New Year’s Eve. The film is expected to take in $1.7 million over the holidays, bringing its total to $6.2 million.

Sony’s “A Man Called Otto,” starring Tom Hanks as a depressed widower, grossed $75,000 in four theaters over the long weekend, averaging $18,750 (News.ro)