{"id":156125,"date":"2026-01-06T18:19:20","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T13:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zamanturkmenistan.com.tm\/?p=156125"},"modified":"2026-01-06T18:19:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T13:19:20","slug":"avatar-3-leads-in-first-weekend-of-2026-with-40-million-dollars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zamanturkmenistan.com.tm\/avatar-3-leads-in-first-weekend-of-2026-with-40-million-dollars\/","title":{"rendered":"Avatar 3\u2019 Leads in First Weekend of 2026 With 40 Million dollars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAvatar: Fire and Ash\u201d is towering over the domestic box office during the first weekend of the new year.<br \/>\nJames Cameron\u2019s latest Na\u2019vi adventure has collected 40 million dollars from 3825 North American theaters in its third weekend of release, declining 35% from the busy post-Christmas frame. Those ticket sales are pushing the third \u201cAvatar\u201d to 306 million dollars domestically and 1.08 billion dollars globally after just 18 days in theaters. \u201cFire and Ash\u201d crossed the coveted billion-dollar benchmark slower than 2022\u2019s \u201cAvatar: The Way of Water,\u201d which took 14 days, and the original \u201cAvatar,\u201d which took 17 days. Now it\u2019s a matter of where \u201cAvatar: Fire and Ash\u201d will top out at the box office \u2014 and whether the third installment has the stamina to surpass 2 billion dollars like its predecessors.<br \/>\nSince January is often glacial in terms of movie theater attendance, Hollywood studios barely release anything new around the dawn of the new year. That means a smattering of Thanksgiving and Christmas leftovers, such as \u201cZootopia 2,\u201d \u201cThe Housemaid\u201d and \u201cMarty Supreme,\u201d were behind \u201cAvatar: Fire and Ash\u201d on North American charts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAvatar: Fire and Ash\u201d is towering over the domestic box office during the first weekend of the new year. James Cameron\u2019s latest Na\u2019vi adventure has collected 40 million dollars from 3825 North American theaters in its third weekend of release, declining 35% from the busy post-Christmas frame. Those ticket sales are pushing the third \u201cAvatar\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":114995,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10916],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zamanturkmenistan.com.tm\/%77%70%2d%6a%73%6f%6e\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156125"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zamanturkmenistan.com.tm\/%77%70%2d%6a%73%6f%6e\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zamanturkmenistan.com.tm\/%77%70%2d%6a%73%6f%6e\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zamanturkmenistan.com.tm\/%77%70%2d%6a%73%6f%6e\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zamanturkmenistan.com.tm\/%77%70%2d%6a%73%6f%6e\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156125"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/zamanturkmenistan.com.tm\/%77%70%2d%6a%73%6f%6e\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":156126,"href":"https:\/\/zamanturkmenistan.com.tm\/%77%70%2d%6a%73%6f%6e\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156125\/revisions\/156126"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zamanturkmenistan.com.tm\/%77%70%2d%6a%73%6f%6e\/wp\/v2\/media\/114995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zamanturkmenistan.com.tm\/%77%70%2d%6a%73%6f%6e\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zamanturkmenistan.com.tm\/%77%70%2d%6a%73%6f%6e\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zamanturkmenistan.com.tm\/%77%70%2d%6a%73%6f%6e\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}