'Avatar' sequel rules North American box office for second week

'Avatar: The Way of Water' sails to the top of the box office in its second weekend, bringing in what studios estimate will be a strong $56 million in North America

It's also clear sailing for the film looking ahead, with more holiday time coming and no comparable competition until February, when Marvel's “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania” is released.“The biggest foe that Avatar is facing at this moment is the weather,” Dergarabedian said.

The tepid, $6.5 million opening weekend in October of director David O. Russell's “Amsterdam," another film, set in a similar period, that combined prestige, scope, star power and a celebrated auteur, brought industry worries that audiences just weren't flocking to theatres for such films.The concerns proved justified, as “Babylon” barely made more than half of the opening of “Amsterdam.

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