Avatar: Fire and Ash surpasses The Dark Knight Rises with $1.083B global

Collider reports James Cameron’s Avatar: Fire and Ash has crossed $1.083 billion worldwide, overtaking Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises on the all-time global box office list.

The threequel earned $40 million from a small expansion into 3,835 theaters nationwide and now totals $1.083 billion, split between $306 million domestic and $777 million from overseas markets. The Dark Knight Rises previously earned $1.082 billion worldwide. Next on the list is Transformers: Age of Extinction, which sits about $21 million ahead — a gap the film is said could close within the next seven days.

Critical response has lagged behind audience reaction: the film holds a 66% critics' score on Rotten Tomatoes, noted as the weakest of the trilogy, while audiences have given it 90% with the site’s audience consensus calling it "an immersive, mesmerizing visual experience and a long-awaited return to Pandora." The film is currently playing in theaters.

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