Imax: ‘Avatar: The Way of Water’ ends 2022 as highest grossing release of year

IMAX (IMAX) announced that Disney (DIS)/Lightstorm’s "Avatar: The Way of Water" ended 2022 as the highest grossing release of the year in IMAX, and that its total IMAX global box office is $160M and counting through Monday. James Cameron’s sci-fi sequel now stands as the fourth highest grossing IMAX release of all time. The film is already the highest grossing IMAX release of all time in eighteen markets worldwide, and IMAX has delivered 11% of the film’s global gross to date on just a fraction of total screens. The stunning success of "Avatar: The Way of Water" helped lift IMAX to $848.5M in global box office for the year, up 33% over 2021. IMAX also installed and upgraded approximately 92 systems around the world in 2022 – its highest total since 2019.