Fire and Ash touched a flame to the wick of impending blockbusterdom, hauling in a decent-ish $88 million in North American cinemas. That figure is a far cry from the box-office bonfire of Avatar: The Way of Water — which opened to $134 million in 2022 — and comes in a tad below pre-release “tracking” estimates (they predicted Avatar 3 would gross between $90 million and $105 million over its first three days in theaters).