The Globe and Mail reports in its Monday edition that Hollywood wrapped up a turbulent year with big ticket sales for Avatar: Fire and Ash and a box-office hit for Timothée Chalamet with Marty Supreme over a busy holiday weekend in movie theatres. An Associated Press dispatch to The Globe says that as expected, James Cameron's latest trip to Pandora dominated ticket sales, collecting $88-million over the four-day Christmas-to-Sunday period, and $64-million on the weekend, according to studio estimates Sunday (all figures U.S.). Though Fire and Ash initially opened notably softer domestically than its 2022 predecessor, Avatar: The Way of Water, it held better in its second weekend. It dipped just 28 per cent, whereas Way of Water fell 53 per cent. In two weeks, Fire and Ash has quickly amassed $217.7-million in North America for Disney, and the $400-million-budgeted film has been a massive draw internationally, grossing $542.7-million so far overseas. To reach the box-office heights of the previous films, both of which rank among the biggest blockbusters ever, Fire and Ash will need to sustain business through New Year's and early January. If it does, Avatar could become the first franchise with three $2-billion movies.