Zoe Saldana becomes the first actor to have been in four movies that grossed over $2 BILLION
Zoe Saldana has made film history.
The 44-year-old showbiz icon became the first actor to have been in four films that grossed more than $2 billion at the box office, according to People.
The distinction comes after Zoe’s latest film, Avatar: The Way Of The Water, surpassed that amount at the box office.
Making film history! Zoe Saldana has become the first actor to have been in four films that grossed more than $2 billion at the box office; pictured December 2022
The four movies Zoe starred in that grossed more than $2 billion are Avengers: Infinity War, Avengers: Endgame, Avatar and its sequel, Avatar: The Way of Water.
Avatar director James Cameron also made history over the weekend, becoming the only director to have directed three films that surpassed $2 billion at the global box office, according to TMZ.
Those movies are Titanic, the original Avatar movie, and now it’s the 2022 sequel, Avatar: The Way Of The Water, which recently surpassed $2 billion globally at the box office in just six weeks.
The milestone makes Avatar: The Way Of The Water “the top six highest-grossing movies of all time,” according to Deadline.
The highly anticipated sequel was reportedly “one of the most expensive films ever made, with an estimated budget of $350 million or more.”
Box Office Sensations: Avengers: Infinity War, Avengers: Endgame, Avatar, and now its sequel, Avatar: The Way of Water, have racked up the seismic amount at the box office.
Iconic role: Saldana portrayed as Neytiri in the original Avatar movie
The news comes after Cameron confirmed that there will be Avatar sequels after saying that the latest movie would definitely generate the necessary profits to continue the franchise.
Earlier this month, the 68-year-old director joked about Who’s Talking to Chris Wallace? from HBO Max. that he ‘can’t help’ creating the last two Avatar movies as his last movie.
“It looks like with the momentum the movie has right now, we’ll easily get through our break even in the next few days, so it feels like I can’t get out of this and I’ll have to do these other sequels.” ,’ he said.
Avatar: The Way of Water surpassed $2 billion globally at the box office in just six weeks, after winning praise for its innovations in visual effects technology.
Awesome! The milestone makes the James Cameron-directed sci-fi epic “the top six highest-grossing movies of all time,” according to Deadline.
The director added: “I know what I’m going to do in the next six or seven years.”
Previously, the filmmaker made no secret of the astronomical costs of making the film, describing it as “very expensive.”
The director even said before the release of the third installment that he would end the entire franchise early if the public doesn’t seem to ‘give like ***’.
Making history: The highly anticipated sequel was reportedly “one of the most expensive movies ever made, with an estimated budget of $350 million or more.”
Elsewhere, on the HBO Max show, he addressed the misunderstanding over his comments about necessary earnings from The Way Of Water.
The director revealed that he said the film needed to be among the highest-grossing films ever to break even, the Subway informed.
But he added that many had taken his comments differently, thinking The Way Of Water needed to hit $2bn (£1.65bn) and be in the top 10 to break even.
James explained: ‘[I] he never actually gave her a number. I said it would have to be among the highest grossing movies ever and someone else applied that number and it went up. The number is actually smaller.
He then added that he hopes to have a discussion with Disney soon about what will happen with Avatar 3.
James continued: “We already captured and photographed the entire movie, so we’re in extended post-production to do all that CGI magic. And then Avatar 4 and 5 get written. We even have some 4’s in the can.
It comes after Avatar: The Way Of Water became the highest-grossing movie of 2022.
It comes after Avatar: The Way Of Water became the highest-grossing movie of 2022.
The sequel surpassed the former champion, monster hit Top Gun: Maverick, following the latest box office totals, according to Deadline.
The mostly CG-generated film has already grossed more than $1.5 billion in total globally since its theatrical debut on December 16.
Top Gun: Maverick grossed $1.49 billion during its long theatrical run, which Avatar 2 is likely to imitate, and the Tom Cruise-starring film broke streaming records on Paramount+ after it debuted on the service on December 22.