The might of
Avatar: Fire and Ash from director James Cameron is keeping all other movies at bay as it spends a third weekend at the top of the North American box office.
The movie has takes another $40 Million over the weekend as its total gross now surpasses the $300 Million mark, the movie is still not doing as well as Avatar: The Way of Water which was closing in on half a Billion at this point.
Highest new movie of the weekend is We Bury the Dead starring Daisy Risley from Star Wars fame which enters at number 11 this week.
US Box Office QuickView
- Number 1 - Avatar: Fire and Ash (3rd Weekend)
- Highest debut - We Bury the Dead (@11)
- Longest run - Wicked: For Good (7 weeks)
- Highest total gross - Zootopia 2 ($363,647,129)
- Best Percentage change week on week - The Plague (91%)
- Total US top 15 this weekend - $130,250,734
- Also new this weekend
- Check out the full US box office.
US weekend box office top 5 breakdown 2nd - 4th January 2026
Avatar: Fire and Ash
- The movie remains at Number 1 on this weekends US box office
- It has spent 3 weeks at the top of the US box office.
- It grosses $40,029,348 over the weekend, a 37% drop from last weekend
- It has a total gross of $306,024,602 after 3 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 $425,527,069 at the box office after 3 weekends of release.
Zootopia 2
- The movie goes up the chart to Number 2 on this weekends US box office
- It grosses $19,034,969 over the weekend, a 4% drop from last weekend
- It has a total gross of $363,647,129 after 6 weekends of release
- The movie is the 2nd top grossing film so far in 2026
- The movie is a sequel to Zootopia which took $296,004,904 at the box office after 6 weekends of release.
The Housemaid~2025
- The movie goes up the chart to Number 3 on this weekends US box office
- It grosses $14,865,000 over the weekend, a 3% drop from last weekend
- It has a total gross of $75,724,000 after 3 weekends of release
- The movie is the 3rd top grossing film so far in 2026
Marty Supreme
- The movie remains at Number 4 on this weekends US box office
- It grosses $12,554,127 over the weekend, a 29% drop from last weekend
- It has a total gross of $56,000,736 after 3 weekends of release
- The movie is the 4th top grossing film so far in 2026
Anaconda~2025
- The movie goes down the chart to Number 5 on this weekends US box office
- It grosses $10,000,000 over the weekend, a 58% drop from last weekend
- It has a total gross of $45,860,645 after 2 weekends of release
- The movie is the 5th 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.
