Avatar: Fire and Ash is performing well at the box office, and has already earned $1 billion. So here’s when to expect it on Disney Plus.

Once again, Cameron has proven that betting against Avatar is a losing game. When the dust settles, Fire and Ash won’t just be remembered as a successful sequel; it's just another in a long line of movies that the King of the Box Office has taken on headfirst — and taken down with his bare hands.

Lionsgate’s The Housemaid is currently claiming third with $12M+ at 3,070 theaters, -22%, after a $4.6M Friday. Total by Sunday for the Paul Feig directed thriller, Hidden Pictures production is $72.8M, which will be far past the filmmaker’s previous Lionsgate black comedy, A Simple Favor, which ended its stateside run at $53.5M.

Avatar: Fire and Ash has launched to a huge $345 million at the global box office, which is enough to secure the second largest opening weekend of 2025 so far. But it’s down significantly on its predecessor Avatar: The Way of Water,

Despite talk of underperformance and James Cameron suggesting sequels are be in doubt, "Avatar: Fire and Ash" becomes 2025's third-biggest film this weekend and counting.

Seventeen years have passed since a massive rupture at a Tennessee Valley Authority plant spilled more than 1.1 billion gallons of coal ash into Harriman, Tenn., but the event is still raw in Jessica Waller’s mind.

Fire and Ash, James Cameron became the only filmmaker to have four films in the USD 1 billion-plus box office club.

Avatar: Fire and Ash has become the third film in the franchise to surpass $1 billion at the global box office, but questions remain on whether it will end up matching Avatar 1 or 2 by the end of its theatrical run — or convince Disney to green light Avatar 4 and 5.