Box-Office Weekend: Avatar Is Alive for Five

For five weeks in a row, Avatar: Fire and Ash has won the weekend box-office battle, this weekend by narrowly edging out 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple by a mere $0.8 million.

In its fifth weekend of release, 20th Century Studios’ Avatar: Fire and Ash claimed the top spot of the box-office weekend top ten. This weekend in took in $13.3 million to bring its overall total to $363.7 million. Meanwhile, Sony Pictures Releasing saw its 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple finish in second with $12.5 million to show for its opening weekend. Meanwhile, Zootopia 2 crawled up a spot to finish in third place with $9.2 million over the last three days, pushing its eight-week total to $390.4 million for Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. This movement pushed Lionsgate’s The Housemaid down to fourth place with $8.5 million after a third-place finish seven days ago. The A24 release of Marty Supreme however, climbed from sixth- to fifth-place this weekend where it brought in $5.6 million to lift its five-week total to $79.7 million.

Following a second-place debut last weekend, Paramount Pictures International saw Primate drop four spots to a sixth-place finish this weekend as it added $5.0 million to give the film an overall total of $19.6 million. Seventh place was claimed by the 2026 re-release of The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring with $3.6 million earned over the weekend. Lionsgate’s Greenland 2 fell from fifth to eighth this weekend where it brought in $3.5 million for the studio, giving the film a two-week total of $14.2 million. Also falling two spots was Sony Pictures Releasing’s Anaconda which took in $3.3 million with a ninth-place finish this weekend, giving the film a four-week total of $59.2 million. Finally, in its fifth week of release, The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants dropped from eighth- to -tenth-place with $2.4 million taken in over the weekend. This gives the film a five-week total of $67.2 million for Paramount Pictures International.

For the second consecutive weekend, the previous week’s ninth- and tenth-place films were both forced out of the box-office weekend top ten seven days later. After a ninth-place finish last weekend, the Angel release of David could not crack the top ten again this weekend, but still managed to accumulate a five-week total of $77.5 million. Finally, with four weeks in release, the Focus Features product Song Sung Blue dropped out of the top ten with a total to date of $35.1 million.

Weekend Box Office (January 16th – January 18th)

1. 1. Avatar: Fire and Ash…$13.3 Million
   2. 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple…$12.5 Million
   3. Zootopia 2…$9.2 Million
   4. The Housemaid…$8.5 Million
   5. Marty Supreme…$5.6 Million
   6. Primate…$5.0 Million
   7. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring 2026 Re-release…$3.6 Million
   8. Greenland 2: Migration…$3.5 Million
   9. Anaconda…$3.3 Million
   10. The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants…$2.4 Million