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From dominating the box office to ruling VOD. Avatar: The Way of Water and Creed III arrived on streaming platforms last week and quickly shot up the list of top VOD releases.
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As of Tuesday (April 4), Avatar 2 and Creed III currently occupy the first and second place on Amazon’s list of bestselling movies on Prime Video. Avatar is at No. 1 on the list, Creed III takes the No. 2 and No. 3 slots and Gerard Butler’s Plane sits at No. 4.
Although Avatar: The Way of Water has yet to premiere on Disney+, the film became available on VOD on March 28, three months after debuting in theaters. Creed III dropped on VOD on March 31, less than a month after its theatrical debut.
Read on for all the ways to watch and stream Avatar: The Way of Water and Creed III from home.
How to Watch Avatar: The Way of Water
Avatar: The Way of Water is available to stream for $19.99 on Prime Video, Apple TV, Google Play, YouTube TV, Red Box and Vudu. You can stream the film on your computer, phone, smart TV and other compatible devices through the Prime Video app and apps from other streamers.
Avatar: The Way of Water on Prime Video
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Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldaña, Kate Winslet, Stephen Lange and Sigourney Weaver star in Avatar: The Way of Water, which takes focusses on the Sully family: Jake (Worthington), Neytiri (Saldaña) and their kids.
The hit film has grossed $2.31 billion at the global box office since its release in December, marking another record for Cameron who has directed three of the highest-grossing films of all time (Avatar, Avatar: The Way of Water and Titanic).
Avatar: The Way of Water is also the second fastest film to gross $2 billion at the box office after Avengers: Endgame.
Creed III is available on Prime Video, Apple TV, YouTube, etc. The boxing flick is $19.99 to rent and $24.99 to buy on VOD. If you rent Creed III on Prime Video, you’ll have 30 days to stream but only 48 hours to finish once you start. Stream from anywhere with the Prime Video app or online at Amazon.com.
Creed III on Prime Video
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Creed III, starring Michael B. Jordan and Jonathan Majors, has raked in more than $260 million worldwide. In addition to resuming his role as Adonis Creed, Jordan also directed the film.
Watch the trailer for Creed III below.
The Weeknd‘s latest offering “Nothing Is Lost (You Give Me Strength)” has topped this week’s new music poll.
Music fans voted in a poll published Friday (Dec. 16) on Billboard, choosing the bombastic ballad, which plays over the end credits of the long-awaited sequel Avatar: The Way of Water, as their favorite new music release of the past week.
“Nothing Is Lost (You Give Me Strength)” beat out new music by Rosalía and Cardi B (“DESPECHÁ RMX”), Juice WRLD (“Face 2 Face”), PinkPantheress (“Take Me Home”), FLO (“Losing You”), and others.
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“Nothing Is Lost (You Give Me Strength)” takes a sonic cue from Gerard McCann’s “Cry Little Sister” from the 1987 cult classic The Lost Boys.
“I thought I could protect you from paying for my sins/ You give me strength/ I would do either way/ Nothing’s lost/ No more pain, just you,” he sings on the track, which was co-written and co-produced by Swedish House Mafia,
The Weeknd is no stranger to big movie soundtrack singles, having previously scored Billboard Hot 100 top 10 hits from Fifty Shades of Grey (“Earned It”) and Black Panther (“Pray for Me”) alongside Kendrick Lamar).
Trailing behind “Nothing Is Lost (You Give Me Strength)” on the fan-voted poll was Rosalía’s remix of the MOTOMAMI smash “DESPECHÁ.” The Cardi B-assisted track brought in nearly 40% of the vote.
See the final results of this week’s new music release poll below.
Avatar: The Way of Water is finally hitting theaters on Friday (Dec. 16), and a day before the release, The Weeknd dropped his cinematic contribution to the soundtrack, “Nothing Is Lost (You Give Me Strength).”
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“I thought I could protect you from paying for my sins/ You give me strength/ I would do either way/ Nothing’s lost/ No more pain, just you,” he sings on the Swedish House Mafia-produced track, which was released on Thursday (Dec. 15).
“Nothing Is Lost” was previously teased in the Avatar: The Way of the Water trailer which dropped on Dec. 7, in which the singer’s soft vocals are heard throughout the 45-second clip.
It’s been an exciting week for The Weeknd (real name Abel Tesfaye), who was recently named the 2022 recipient of the Allan Slaight Humanitarian Spirit Award in honor of the singer’s impressive commitment to charitable causes. Tesfaye is the first musician to receive both the organization’s Humanitarian Spirit Award and the Allan Slaight Impact Award, with the latter presented the star during his 2014 Canadian Walk of Fame ceremony.
“That this is a Canadian award sits deep with me. Allan and The Slaight Family Foundation are known across the country for their generous philanthropy, and it means a lot to be acknowledged, and is an honor to be recognized along with the legendary Canadian artists who received this award before me,” Tesfaye said in a press statement following the honor.
Listen to “Nothing Is Lost (You Give Me Strength)” below.
The Weeknd has something in the works with Avatar: The Way of Water, the upcoming long-awaited sequel to 2009’s Avatar.
“12.16.22,” The Weeknd wrote on Sunday (Dec. 4) on Twitter, along with a 12-second music clip featuring the blue Avatar logo. Dec. 16 is the day the James Cameron-directed film is set to be released by Disney.
“#AvatarTheWayOfWater x @theweeknd,” the official Avatar account tweeted soon after.
Film producer Jon Landau also shared a snapshot with The Weeknd and wrote, “As the Na’vi say, ‘Zola’u nìprrte’ soaiane Avatar’… Welcome to the Avatar family.”
The original Avatar became the highest-grossing movie of all time ($2.92 billion worldwide) and received nine Oscar nominations, winning three of those awards: best art direction, best cinematography, and best visual effects.
The Weeknd last released new music with Dawn FM, his fifth studio album, which peaked at No. 2 on the Bllboard 200 albums chart in January 2022.
See the teaser tweets about The Weeknd’s involvement in the new Avatar film below.
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