Director James Cameron’s sci-fi sequel “Avatar: The Way of Water” dominated at the box office for a second straight week, drawing $56 million in domestic ticket sales over the Christmas holiday weekend, according to estimates from Comscore released Sunday.
The weekend’s runner-up was also an animated sequel. Universal Pictures’ “Puss in Boots: The Last Wish” — a spinoff in the “Shrek” universe by DreamWorks Animation, featuring a swashbuckling cat voiced by Antonio Banderas — brought in an estimated $11.4 million in ticket sales in the U.S. and Canada.
TriStar Pictures’ “Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody,” about the singer’s life, came in third, with a $5.3 million domestic weekend haul, while Paramount’s 1920s flick “Babylon,” starring Brad Pitt and Margot Robbie, trundled into its opening weekend with $3.5 million.
