The global box office revenue for the film Avatar: The Last Airbender surpassed $1 billion.
On the 6th, the team behind Avatar: The Last Airbender (director James Cameron, distribution Walt Disney Company Korea) announced that global box office revenue exceeded $1 billion. With this, the cumulative box office revenue for the three-film Avatar series surpassed $6.35 billion (Hanwha approximately 9.1941 trillion won). The monumental achievement of a single franchise film drew attention.
For three consecutive weeks, Avatar: The Last Airbender has firmly held the top spot at domestic and international box offices, continuing its explosive box office phenomenon, and the box office revenues of Avatar and Avatar: The Way of Water have together topped $6.35 billion. It is exceedingly rare for three films in a franchise series to each surpass $1 billion. This result cements the Avatar series' stature and reaffirms it as the definitive top work.
Moreover, this result draws attention as an achievement overwhelmingly higher than the Hollywood trilogy considered representative: the Star Wars series ($4.48 billion, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker) and the Jurassic World series ($3.98 billion, Jurassic World, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, Jurassic World: Dominion).
Also, Avatar: The Last Airbender achieved an impressive feat by ranking second among films released worldwide in 2025 by the Motion Picture Association (MPA). Among APAC countries, Korea recorded the second-highest box office revenue after China, underscoring the Avatar series' unparalleled box office power since 2009 and the domestic audience's affection for the film.
Finally, at the 31st Critics' Choice Awards the film won for visual effects, recognizing the value of visuals that realized the Avatar universe with overwhelming technical skill. As it continues to write another historic record, Avatar: The Last Airbender is being talked about as a legendary masterpiece indispensable to many viewers' movie lives and is expected to remain a must-see film consistently loved at theaters in the new year of 2026.
Avatar: The Last Airbender tells the story of an even greater crisis unfolding on a Pandora covered in fire and ash when the tribe of ash led by Baran appears before the Sully family, grieving after the death of Jake and Neytiri's eldest son Neteyam, and is the third film in the globally successful Avatar series that drew 13.62 million domestic viewers and is now showing nationwide in theaters.
[Photo] Provided by Walt Disney Company Korea.
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