Avatar: The Way of Water may have managed to equal the “number of consecutive weekends” run of Avatar at the box office, but it looks like it won’t surpass it. While it had been possible for James Cameron’s epic to hold the top spot a little longer until the arrival of Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, it looks like it will instead lose its crown this week to M. Night Shyamalan’s Knock at the Cabin.

Avatar: The Way of Water may have had an unprecedented run at the top of the box office worldwide, but Shyamalan’s latest eerie offering looks set to earn up to $20 million on its opening weekend this week. Avatar: The Way of Water pulled in almost $16 million domestically this past weekend, but with the movie now seeing a drop of around 25% week on week, it is likely that amount will be reduced to around $12 million, which should allow Knock at the Cabin to claim the top spot.

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While the lower estimates for Knock at the Cabin come in at around $15 million, and that would probably still be enough to beat off the Na’vi charge, Shyamalan’s last movie, Old, was released while the Covid pandemic was still surging and managed to make $16 million on its debut. With Dave Bautista leading the cast and the popularity of Shyamalan’s mind-bending movies, there is no reason to believe that the film will not manage to meet its high-end projections.

Is Knock at the Cabin M. Night Shyamalan’s Best Movie? He Thinks So

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While every director will happily rate their latest movie as their best work, especially in the lead-up to release, M. Night Shyamalan believes the same to be true of Knock at the Cabin without any sense of simply promoting the film’s release. He previously said:

Fans of Shyamalan are certainly looking forward to his latest movie, even without the director’s comments. First reactions to the movie will be coming soon, and that will be when audiences really get to see how well Knock at the Cabin lands. From the reaction to the tense trailers released so far, the film will offer plenty of the usual Shyamalan twists and turns. According to the synopsis of the movie:

“It’s going to sound like a PR answer, but Knock at the Cabin has so much of what I love in it. It’s the way the pieces work together, and sometimes, you just have to leave it to the film gods. I honestly think every movie is the last movie and everything I do is the last one. If it all ended here, Knock at the Cabin is the way I would want to end it, and that’s how I approached it.”

“While vacationing at a remote cabin, a young girl and her parents are taken hostage by four armed strangers who demand that the family make an unthinkable choice to avert the apocalypse. With limited access to the outside world, the family must decide what they believe before all is lost.”