Avatar: Fire and Ash has officially entered the history books at the Nigerian box office, becoming the tenth-highest grossing film of all time.
According to the Cinema Exhibitors Association of Nigeria (CEAN), the film earned ₦14.9 million in its seventh week in Nigerian cinemas. While this was not enough to place it in the week’s top five, Behind the Scenes still leads with ₦84.2 million, it was the highest-ranking foreign film on the charts.
More importantly, this pushed Avatar: Fire and Ash’s cumulative gross to ₦645.5 million, surpassing Omo Ghetto: The Saga’s ₦636 million.
In the process, Cameron’s epic also leapfrogged Mufasa: The Lion King (₦623 million), previously the sixth-highest grossing foreign film in Nigeria.
Below are the highest-grossing films in Nigeria (as of February 9, 2026)
- Behind the Scenes (2025): ₦2.53 billion
- Everybody Loves Jenifa (2024): ₦1.88 billion
- A Tribe Called Judah (2023): ₦1.40 billion
- Oversabi Aunty (2025): ₦1.08 billion
- Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022): ₦1.04 billion
- Black Panther (2018): ₦818 million
- Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021): ₦750 million
- Deadpool & Wolverine (2024): ₦706 million
- Battle on Buka Street (2022): ₦668 million
- Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025): ₦645.5 million
Below are highest-grossing foreign/international films of all time in Nigeria (as of February 9, 2026):
- Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022): ₦1.04 billion
- Black Panther (2022): ₦818.1 million
- Sinners (2025): ₦775.8 million
- Spider-Man: No Way Home (2019): ₦750.2 million
- Deadpool & Wolverine (2024): ₦706.7 million
- Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025): ₦645.5 million
- Mufasa: The Lion King (2024): ₦623 million
- Avengers: Endgame (2019): ₦528million.
- Superman (2025): ₦493 million
- The Woman King (2022): ₦462 million
- Bad Boys: Ride or Die (2024): ₦488 million
- Aquaman (2018): ₦452 million
- Avengers: Infinity War (2018): ₦450 million
- The Fantastic Four: First Steps (2025): ₦435 million
- Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022): ₦435 million