Avatar: Fire and Ash Blazes Past $1 Billion as James Cameron Becomes First Director With Four Consecutive Billion-Dollar Hits

James Cameron just did the thing he always does: another Avatar movie, another billion. Avatar: Fire and Ash has officially cleared $1 billion worldwide, making Cameron the only director with four straight $1B grossers under his belt. Yes, he keeps doing this.

The numbers (and how they stack up)

Fire and Ash opened on December 19 and has now hit an estimated $1.083 billion after last weekend. It is still climbing.

For context, it is currently trailing its older siblings. The original Avatar sits at about $2.9 billion worldwide, and Avatar: The Way of Water is around $2.3 billion. Those two rank first and third on the all-time global box office list. Cameron’s other billion-dollar monster, Titanic, is at roughly $2.2 billion and ranks fourth. So the mountain is tall, but Fire and Ash is wearing good hiking boots.

Cameron’s four-in-a-row billion club (Titanic, Avatar, The Way of Water, and now Fire and Ash) is a flex no one else can claim.

2025’s billion-dollar club so far

It is a small, very exclusive party this year. Three films have crossed the mark, including Avatar 3:

• Zootopia 2: $1.558 billion (and still adding to it)
• Lilo & Stitch (live-action): $1.038 billion, heading into the summer on a high
• Avatar: Fire and Ash: $1.083 billion

So… about Avatar 4 (and beyond)

Cameron’s enthusiasm is intact, but he is not promising the next decade of his life just yet. He recently kept it real about the future of the saga:

"I don’t know if the saga goes beyond this point. I hope it does. I’m not going to rule it out. I mean, I’ve got to make it in a vigorous way, to handle the kind of volume and energy of the work for another six or seven years. You know what I mean? I might not be able to do that."

Translation: he wants to keep going, but these movies are massive undertakings, and even Cameron is human.

For now, Avatar 4 is on the calendar for December 21, 2029. One neat franchise-nerd detail: the narration is changing again. Jake Sully (the Toruk Makto) won’t be narrating, just as he didn’t in Fire and Ash, where Lo’ak took over. A new narrator is confirmed for the next film, which suggests we are getting another perspective shift when we head back to Pandora.

Avatar: Fire and Ash is in theaters now. If you are tracking the box office, expect this one to keep inching up for a while.