Avatar’s latest sequel is on fire.
“Avatar: Fire and Ash” extinguished its competition and was No. 1 in theaters on Friday during its opener, raking in $36.5 million, according to The Numbers.
The third installment in the “Avatar” franchise — which The Post called “the weakest of James Cameron’s trio” — is expected to take in up to $95 million at the domestic box office this weekend.
In second place was the biblical animated musical “David” — based on the Old Testament’s King of Israel who defeated Goliath, the giant Philistine — with $9.6 million in revenue.
The psychological thriller “The Housemaid,” starring Sydney Sweeney and Amanda Seyfried, came in third, with sales of $8 million on its opener.
The Post bashed the film as a “gussied-up pile of trash” and “a trashy ‘Gone Girl’ ripoff.”
In fourth was “The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants,” with a $6 million take on its opening day.
“Zootopia 2” took fifth, with $4 million in sales.
