After one other impressively worthwhile weekend in theaters, James Cameron’s “Avatar: Fire and Ash” helped crown its star Zoe Saldaña the queen of the field workplace.
The third “Avatar” film boasted $21.3 million in North American gross sales final week, bringing it to a worldwide whole of $1.23 billion. With these spectacular stats, Saldaña formally surpassed Scarlett Johansson because the highest-grossing actor of all time.
The Oscar winner has grossed greater than $15.47 billion on the worldwide field workplace, based on field workplace monitoring web site the Numbers. Johansson solely lately gained the title after surpassing her “Avengers” co-star Samuel L. Jackson with the discharge of final summer season’s “Jurassic World Rebirth.”
What helped buoy Saldaña to the highest is the truth that the 47-year-old actor stars within the three highest-grossing movies of all time: 2009’s “Avatar” ($2.9 billion), 2019’s “Avengers: Endgame” ($2.8 billion) and 2022’s “Avatar: The Way of Water” ($2.3 billion).
Saldaña can be the one actor to seem in 4 films that introduced in over $2 billion worldwide. (2018’s “Avengers: Infinity War” grossed $2.05 billion.)
Final yr proved that Saldaña’s expertise exceeded the realm of popcorn films when she nabbed her first Academy Award for her supporting function within the controversial musical “Emilia Pérez.” Her win marked the primary time an actor with Dominican roots had gained an Oscar.
“I am a proud child of immigrant parents, with dreams and dignity and hardworking hands,” she mentioned via tears whereas accepting the award for supporting actress. “And I am the first American of Dominican origin to accept an Academy Award, and I know I will not be the last.”
Saldaña cemented her Oscar win whereas side-stepping criticisms of the movie — particularly relating to its portrayals of Mexicans and transgender folks — in addition to the scandal that surrounded “Emilia Pérez” co-star Karla Sofía Gascón, when her offensive tweets with anti-Muslim, anti-diversity and racist language resurfaced.
