The
Avatar series continues to show strength as the third movie in the series
Avatar: Fire and Ash spends its fifth weekend at the top of the North American box office.
The movie has now taken nearly $365 Million which although well behind the previous movie in the series is still a massive box office gross in the current cinema climate.
Top new movie is the weekend is 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple which lands at number 2 this week with just over $12.5 Million.
This is disappointingly half that of the previous movie despite positive word of mouth and critics reviews.
US Box Office QuickView
- Number 1 - Avatar: Fire and Ash (5th Weekend)
- Highest debut - 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (@2)
- Longest run - The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (40 weeks)
- Highest total gross - Zootopia 2 ($390,413,294)
- Best Percentage change week on week - No Other Choice (38%)
- Total US top 15 this weekend - $85,532,271
- Also new this weekend
- The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
- The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
- The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
- Check out the full US box office.
US weekend box office top 5 breakdown 16th - 18th January 2026
Avatar: Fire and Ash
- The movie remains at Number 1 on this weekends US box office
- It has spent 5 weeks at the top of the US box office.
- It grosses $14,489,184 over the weekend, a 33% drop from last weekend
- It has a total gross of $364,699,524 after 5 weekends of release
- The movie is the top grossing film so far in 2026
- The movie is a sequel to Avatar: The Way of Water which took $562,919,348 at the box office after 5 weekends of release.
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
Highest New Movie This Weekend
- The movie is the Highest Debut on this weekends US box office chart.
- It has a total gross of $12,521,327 after 1 weekends of release
- The movie is the 11th top grossing film so far in 2026
- The movie is a sequel to 28 Years Later which took $30,002,966 at the box office after 1 weekends of release.
Zootopia 2
- The movie goes up the chart to Number 3 on this weekends US box office
- It grosses $9,171,087 over the weekend, a 8% drop from last weekend
- It has a total gross of $390,413,294 after 8 weekends of release
- The movie is the 2nd top grossing film so far in 2026
- The movie is a sequel to Zootopia which took $316,404,151 at the box office after 8 weekends of release.
The Housemaid~2025
- The movie goes down the chart to Number 4 on this weekends US box office
- It grosses $8,543,288 over the weekend, a 22% drop from last weekend
- It has a total gross of $107,169,352 after 5 weekends of release
- The movie is the 3rd top grossing film so far in 2026
Marty Supreme
- The movie goes up the chart to Number 5 on this weekends US box office
- It grosses $5,477,927 over the weekend, a 28% drop from last weekend
- It has a total gross of $79,653,221 after 5 weekends of release
- The movie is the 4th top grossing film so far in 2026
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Robert has been a film buff since he first visited the old Palace Cinema in High Wycome when he was young.
After working for Ritz Video Film Hire, later Blockbuster Express, it cemented his interest in film and gave him the drive to go to university with the intention of working in the industy.
6 years of college/university studying film and Culture and he decided to take a different path, so he taught himself to develop websites.
8 years at Amazon, 3 years at eBay, a year at PayPal and 6 years running his own digital marketing agency and here we are writing and developing saltypopcorn.co.uk.
