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‘Avatar 2’ Gains $56 Million in Storm-Hit Second Weekend

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Walt Disney Co.’s science-fiction epic Avatar: The Way of Water battled winter storms in the US and Canada to bring in an estimated $56 million in ticket sales this weekend through Sunday.

It garnered another $168.6 million in theaters internationally over the weekend, for a total haul of $855.4 million globally since its Dec. 16 release, Disney said in a statement Sunday.