Remember when Avatar: The Way of Water was in theaters and pulled in more money than a Taylor Swift concert tour? Turns out that kind of pull translates well into streaming, because it’s smashing those records as well.
The movie hit Disney Plus and Max on June 7 and immediately soared to the number one spot for the week of June 5 to June 11 with a very impressive 1.9 billion viewing minutes. That number is between both services by the way. The Nielsen numbers, per Deadline, also showed that the movie was a big hit with younger audiences, who make up three fourths of viewers under 50 and half of viewers under 30. Not too shabby.
For people who haven’t seen the movie, The Way of Water is a sequel to the 2009 epic Avatar, about a futuristic world where humans want to colonize a lush livable moon called Pandora. The sequel continues the story started in that film.
To put this in perspective, the James Cameron directed movie crushed its nearest streaming competitor by 400 million minutes. Just for fun, that’s 761 years! Nielsen also released the rest of the streaming chart as well.
Also in the top ten: Manifest, S.W.A.T., Never Have I Ever, and F.U.B.A.R. Here’s the full list, courtesy of Nielsen.
It’s worth talking about just how popular this movie has been. People couldn’t get enough of the special effects and broad narrative, and it made more than $2.3 billion all around the world.