Franchise
Avatar
3 films•2009–2025•20th Century Fox
75%average critics86%average audience$626.0Mdomestic average
Films
3
2009–2025
Domestic
$1.88B
lifetime
Worldwide
$6.73B
lifetime
Avg opening
$100.1M
3-day
Avg legs
6.44x
opening → total
Return
6.8x
on $987.0M of budget
The Avatar series runs to 3 films from Avatar (2009) to Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025), together grossing $1.88B domestic and $6.73B worldwide. The biggest hit is Avatar (2009) at $2.92B worldwide; the biggest opening weekend belongs to Avatar: The Way of Water (2022) at $134.1M.
Filmography
| Film | Year | Opening | Domestic | Legs | Worldwide | CinemaScore | RT | Yearly rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avatar: Fire and Ash | 2025 | $89.2M | $404.0M | 4.53x | $1.49B | A | 68% | #4 |
| Avatar: The Way of Water | 2022 | $134.1M | $688.8M | 5.10x | $2.32B | A | 77% | #2 |
| Avatar | 2009 | $77.0M | $785.2M | 9.70x | $2.92B | A | 81% | #1 |
Click any column to sort. Yearly rank is the film’s place on its release year’s domestic chart; a film outside that year’s top 50 shows a dash.
Film by film
DomesticInternationalColumn height is worldwide · one film every 8.0 years
Profitability
Return on Budget
6.8x
$6.73B worldwide on $987.0M of production budget
Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget
Domestic vs International Split
Domestic $1.88BInternational $4.86B
Return by film · worldwide ÷ budget
0x2.5x breakeven12.3x
Budgets are reported production costs and exclude marketing, so this is a gross-to-budget ratio rather than studio profit. Films with no reported budget are left out of this section entirely, including from the totals, rather than counted as zero.
Records held
All records →#1Biggest worldwide runsAvatar$2.92B#1Best multipliersAvatar9.73x#1Biggest 6th weekendsAvatar$34.9M#3Biggest 4th weekendsAvatar: The Way of Water$45.8M#4Biggest worldwide runsAvatar: The Way of Water$2.32B#8Biggest domestic runsAvatar: The Way of Water$688.8M#12Fastest to $1B worldwideAvatar: Fire and Ash18 days#17Biggest worldwide runsAvatar: Fire and Ash$1.49B#20Best multipliersAvatar: Fire and Ash4.53x
Top 9 of 31 placings across 15 all-time charts. Where a film places on the same chart in consecutive weekends, only its best placing is shown.
What’s next
Full schedule →No upcoming movies announced yet.
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Counted from this filmography. The number is how many of these films each one accounts for.
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