NEW YORK CITY: James Cameron's "Avatar: The Way of Water" led ticket sales in movie theaters for the sixth straight weekend, making it the first film to have such a sustained reign atop the box office since 2009's "Avatar." Continued robust international sales — $56.3 million for the weekend — has helped push the "Avatar" sequel to $2.024 billion worldwide. You have to go back to Cameron's original "Avatar" to find a movie that stayed No. The box-office domination of "The Way of Water" has been aided, in part, by a dearth of formidable challengers. A low-budget sequel to 2018's "Searching," starring Storm Reid as a teenager seeking her missing mother, "Missing" plays out across computer screens.
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