NEW movies like 'Plane' and 'House Party' were no match for 'Avatar: The Way of Water' and the killer-doll horror flick 'M3gan' at the box office last weekend as they topped the charts again, according to studio estimates on Sunday.

In first place for the fifth straight weekend was James Cameron's 'Avatar' sequel, which added an estimated $31.1 million. That total is likely to balloon to $38.5 million by the end of Monday's Martin Luther King holiday. As of Sunday, the film's domestic total now rests at $562.9 million — the 13th biggest of all time — and its global haul is $1.89 billion. 'Avatar 2' needs to pass $1.92 billion to trump 'Spider-Man: No Way Home,' currently the sixth highest-grossing film of all time globally.