'Avatar: Fire And Ash'

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‘Avatar: Fire And Ash’

Avatar: Fire And Ash, the third installment in James Cameron’s record-breaking franchise, is arriving in UK and Ireland cinemas, with only two other new releases this weekend.

Disney is opening the film in 677 cinemas across various formats including Imax, Dolby Cinema and 4DX. It comes three years after Avatar: The Way Of Water debuted with £11.2m from 725 cinemas in its first weekend while the first installment took £6.7m plus £1.8m in previews across 503 cinemas when it opened in 2009.

Those two films are the 12th and 5th highest-grossing films in the UK and Ireland, with £77.4m for The Way Of Water and £96.7m for the original.  

Fire And Ash will be eyeing up the biggest box office of a 2025 release, a title currently held by A Minecraft Movie, which grossed £52m for Warner Bros. It is followed by Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy, which grossed £46.3m, and Wicked: For Good which is currently on £40.7m - both for Universal. 

Sam Worthington and Zoe Saldaña return for Fire And Ash as the film continues the story of Jake and Neytiri on Pandora. This time they encounter a new, aggressive Na’vi tribe.

Other releases

Also debuting this weekend are Eugene Jarecki’s The Six Billion Dollar Man, and Ute von Münchow-Pohl’s The Super Elfkins.

Charlotte Street Films distributes The Six Billion Dollar Man, a documentary following the scandal around WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, whose recent release from prison has sparked a global debate about press freedom. The film had its world premiere at Cannes Film Festival in Special Screenings where it picked up the L’Œil d’or Grand Prize for documentary. 

Distributed by Miracle Comms Dazzler, The Super Elfkins is a German children’s Christmas flick from director Ute von Münchow-Pohl. Louis Hofmann and Jella Haase lend their voices to this tale about a group of mischievous elves who attract the attention of a policewoman and her feisty cat on a mission to stop them. The film opens in 302 locations across the UK, and is a sequel to The Elfkins: Baking A Difference which grossed fifth in the UK in October 2020.

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